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Meet Jack
DIR By: Cfnteabag
Date: May 15, 2012, 7:17 am
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I have shown a couple of pictures of my 1975 88" series three in
my introduction post but as I have done a fair amount of work I
thought it was time to post a project topic!
I bought Jack after selling my Freelander and Bike from a member
of my local Land Rover club, I fell in love with him straight
away and was slightly blind to the amount of work needed! I saw
that the doors were completely rusted out, that there were a
couple of spots on the bulkhead and the dumb irons needed a
couple of patches but the engine ran so quietly you couldn't
hear it at idle and all gears selected, well at least they
seemed to!
I picked him up the next day and sat at home and ordered a
mountain of parts including doors, a water pump, front and rear
axle rebuild kits including swivels.
I then took advantage of everyone else being at work being on
leave and took him in to get him up on the ramps. nothing too
scary underneath, the springs have blown and will need to be
changed soon and a small amount of surface rust so I started
attacking it with a wire brush, it was then that I realised that
the dumb irons were going to need a little more work! complete
replacement looked like the way forward so replacements were
acquired and the wings and front panel removed for access.
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I at this point realised that the holes in the footwells were
worse than I thought.
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It was also at this point I ran into difficultly, after
originally agreeing to do the work, Jack sat in the workshop
stripped down until I lost patience with being fobbed off so I
reached out to the forums and my Land Rovering friends and a
friend of mine, who I had met when I went to view his Land
Rover, agreed to pick up Jack, take us both to the workshop, Do
the welding and then bring us both back again!
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So then I replaced the front end, and finished fitting the
forward facing seats. After much working I discovered the best
way to do the rear seatbelts was with a pair of Defender front
belts and lower mounting brackets bolted to the rear of the roof
and with spreader plates made out of 3mm steel. The picture
shows an alternative idea I had and not the finished product!
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I have now removed the dashboard and have purchased new vinyl to
recover them and have planned out a new dashboard layout using
LED switches as the old plastic is looking a bit tired and the
toggle switches are a bit temperamental!
So that is where I am at the moment, I received this morning 5
litres of Brunswick green paint suitable for roller application!
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Re: Meet Jack
DIR By: Mrs Stuey
Date: May 15, 2012, 2:17 pm
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Hi do you mind posting pics of what you did for the seatbelt in
the back in the end I have a lightweight that we are putting
forward facing seats in :thumbs:
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Re: Meet Jack
DIR By: Dengieboy
Date: May 15, 2012, 2:45 pm
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Glad to see that you found someone for your welding, as theres
always more rust than you can see when you start removing
things.
Good luck with the paint job and keep the pics coming :thumbs:
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Re: Meet Jack
DIR By: Cfnteabag
Date: May 16, 2012, 2:20 am
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Yeah will post a couple of pictures of the seatbelt, hopefully
later but my gay normal non land rover car has decided to rust
thoroughly it's brake pipes so need to try and get them changed!
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Re: Meet Jack
DIR By: Cfnteabag
Date: May 29, 2012, 4:45 pm
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Time for an update!
I have now fitted my dash, well almost!
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I started having more of a problem with jumping out of second
gear, so after a bout of Eblag surfing I found a series three
gearbox which came with a free Series two box! Luckily they were
also just down the road from one of my friends and he very
kindly picked them up for me and brought them to work!
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So the strip down begun, Seatbox first, not too difficult apart
from someone had used a number of the worlds longest m6 bolts
which after goodness knows how long are nicely corroded and take
forever to undo!
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Next it was time to undo the gearbox, this went fine, all of the
bolts came undone fine, it attached fine to the engine crane but
it wouldn't quite come off one of the mounts so I grabbed a
lever bar and set to, levering it off but unfortunetley it
slipped the the next thing in the way was my forehead!
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That was my work done for the day so I went home to be stuck
together with nail glue and have a beer!
The next day arrived and I was straight back into work to finish
off, the gearbox came away beautifully and was soon out.
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A quick swap over of the drive gear, a reseal of the bottom
plate and it was attached to the crane to be swung in, it was
lined up...
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Jiggled
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lifted by rope
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and kicked!
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But soon it slide home and was bolted up!
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I then filled it with oil and took it for a quick test drive,
running beautifully and without a hitch, apart from me getting
carried away and forgetting I was sat on the fuel tank with no
belt or door and high speed(!) cornering wasnt the best idea!
Meanwhile, and probably wanting to keep and eye on me, my wife
came with me to the workshop and so set about painting the doors
in the new colour
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A little brighter than I was expecting but I am looking forward
to seeing him all painted.
and my daughter filled the time cycling up and down the
workshop!
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Re: Meet Jack
DIR By: Cfnteabag
Date: June 11, 2012, 11:39 am
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And now the pictures of the paint! Prepare yourselves!
On Saturday I spent the day masking up all of the areas
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And while I was there I couldn't resist giving the bonnet a coat
to see how it looked!
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And then the next day it was painting time! While I changed the
front output seal my wife made start on the painting. Soon it
was all done!
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And then outside my House So the unmasking could take place!
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I did get a little carried away and painted the footwells and
lower half of the bulkhead, it does get hard with a Land Rover
working out where the outside finishes and the inside begins!
Teabag
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Re: Meet Jack
DIR By: parksy64
Date: June 11, 2012, 12:40 pm
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Nice work (not my fave green!) but a big improvement :thumbs:
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Re: Meet Jack
DIR By: Wooden
Date: June 11, 2012, 2:10 pm
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Man, that is GREEN..! Good job chap. :thumbs:
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Re: Meet Jack
DIR By: Cfnteabag
Date: June 11, 2012, 2:21 pm
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It certainly is!
I bought it off the Internet and the colour palette on screen
showed it much darker, more like the original colour but now
it's on I really love it!
Teabag
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Re: Meet Jack
DIR By: 1960SeriesII
Date: June 12, 2012, 1:36 am
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Good job! Perhaps not your usual LR colour, but it will stand
out. All those Deep Bronze Green, Pastel Green etc. rebuilds are
nice, but they look all alike ;-)
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