Post by 33grinder on Dec 18, 2011 0:01:48 GMT
Welcome back all. A report of two halves here. First we here from our North London correspondent, Ken.
A productive day at EDC which saw Matt and I attack a happily hibernating Laura and strip her for parts. Ooops, sorry. Not quite, although we did attack her with a drill and an angle grinder.
The O/S front wing was looking very much past its best and remedial action was required.
First things first...... tea!
The plan of attack was to remove the headlight surround. It quickly became apparant that the main grille had to come off as well. We saw that there was evidence of corrosion on the very front of the N/S wings, so the headlight section was removed from that side as well. We then though the bonnet would be best removed, so that was whipped off (obviously the bumper irons and the bumper were taken off too). It all came off easily apart from one you, you...ding screw on the N/S headlight mounting ring (there's always one). These will be replaced with lovely stainless items when I next visit.
The wing was unfamiliar to me, luckily a spare was available for use and was a valuable reference aid. Sadly it had suffered with a slight storage ding at some point in its life, no big deal though. There is still some further fettling to do before we can properly line everything up. Another hours work should see it sorted re: adjustment.
The old wing was removed with only very slight damage to the main body of the car from the use of a hammer and chisel. On the whole the inner wings and other hidden panels were in pretty good order with mostly surface corrosion on the inner wing barr a couple of 10p and 5p sized holes. Easily sorted though.
I have taken a section of the old wing to enable some paint to be made up to match.
The bumper irons would benefit from bead blasting and powdercoating. Mmmmmmm
Anyway, here are some pics. Matt took some more, so that should cover everything.
Oh, I had a drive of Dorothy the red 44 estate. Very nice indeed!
The photo's don't show the sweat, tears and actual blood that went into the work today. d**n those sharp edges!
A really productive day and a real sense of a job well done (mostly).
Fab stuff ;D
And now from me...
Well done guys, looks like a good day was had by all. Shame I missed it but I will get over soon to see your handy work.
Here's the photos from Matt.
For my own part I replaced Rover's broken wiper arm...
...before heading over to Island Landrovers to attempt to breath life into the R5 GTT as I have a propsective purchaser if she would run. We did manage to bump start her but there seems to be an electrical problem that is frying batteries and will need more examination. I also helped Martin shift a non-running landrover from the dutch barn to the workshop.
Also, before Gavina decided to throw a strop I dropped off some wheels to a restorer to have them bead blasted and powder coated. Typical that I had to collect them with Rover.
That's us for now I guess.
Cheese,
33g.
A productive day at EDC which saw Matt and I attack a happily hibernating Laura and strip her for parts. Ooops, sorry. Not quite, although we did attack her with a drill and an angle grinder.
The O/S front wing was looking very much past its best and remedial action was required.
First things first...... tea!
The plan of attack was to remove the headlight surround. It quickly became apparant that the main grille had to come off as well. We saw that there was evidence of corrosion on the very front of the N/S wings, so the headlight section was removed from that side as well. We then though the bonnet would be best removed, so that was whipped off (obviously the bumper irons and the bumper were taken off too). It all came off easily apart from one you, you...ding screw on the N/S headlight mounting ring (there's always one). These will be replaced with lovely stainless items when I next visit.
The wing was unfamiliar to me, luckily a spare was available for use and was a valuable reference aid. Sadly it had suffered with a slight storage ding at some point in its life, no big deal though. There is still some further fettling to do before we can properly line everything up. Another hours work should see it sorted re: adjustment.
The old wing was removed with only very slight damage to the main body of the car from the use of a hammer and chisel. On the whole the inner wings and other hidden panels were in pretty good order with mostly surface corrosion on the inner wing barr a couple of 10p and 5p sized holes. Easily sorted though.
I have taken a section of the old wing to enable some paint to be made up to match.
The bumper irons would benefit from bead blasting and powdercoating. Mmmmmmm
Anyway, here are some pics. Matt took some more, so that should cover everything.
Oh, I had a drive of Dorothy the red 44 estate. Very nice indeed!
The photo's don't show the sweat, tears and actual blood that went into the work today. d**n those sharp edges!
A really productive day and a real sense of a job well done (mostly).
Fab stuff ;D
And now from me...
Well done guys, looks like a good day was had by all. Shame I missed it but I will get over soon to see your handy work.
Here's the photos from Matt.
For my own part I replaced Rover's broken wiper arm...
...before heading over to Island Landrovers to attempt to breath life into the R5 GTT as I have a propsective purchaser if she would run. We did manage to bump start her but there seems to be an electrical problem that is frying batteries and will need more examination. I also helped Martin shift a non-running landrover from the dutch barn to the workshop.
Also, before Gavina decided to throw a strop I dropped off some wheels to a restorer to have them bead blasted and powder coated. Typical that I had to collect them with Rover.
That's us for now I guess.
Cheese,
33g.