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My 80
By: mr.scruff Date: January 4, 2012, 4:00 pm
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Love it to bits and hug it at least twice a day...
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Re: My 80
By: gromet Date: January 4, 2012, 4:02 pm
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now thats what i like a good honest landy :)
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Re: My 80
By: mr.scruff Date: January 4, 2012, 4:34 pm
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Ta! I am going to follow John's lead and copy my thread over
from the day I bought it, to keep it together as it were.
March 9 2009
Good evening,
After an excellent weekend leafing courtesy of Mr. Jon
'landyboy' Holmes, my lovely Becca and I set off back for home
this morning. Coming up the M11, a textual message from Mr.
David '107' Buckoke alerted us to an ad for a Land Rover which -
he knew - I would almost sell my leg for.
Telephone call made, I arranged to meet the vendor at his gaff
in Kidderminster tomorrow.
Only...I thought about it a bit, and decided someone would
gazump me if I didn't get my arse in gear.
So, I dropped a disappointed (she wanted to come too) Becs at
work in Peterborough, and with zero disregard for the trail of
AIDS I might leave, I pointed the gay Disco Brum-wards for a
rendezvous in a charming village surrounded by horses, trees and
RR Sports.
Here, in a field shared with a Cuthbertson and a Roadless Forest
Rover (I shit you not), I met this -
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She's a 1952 80-inch and some of you might have seen the ebay
listing. We're the third registered owners since new and until
last week she had lived on the same caravan park since 1957;
until 18 months ago she had always lived in a dry shed, too.
Sadly the engine (original 2 litre petrol) is seized through
lack of use but a plan is forming for that, and everything else
seems to be free. There is a big hole in the bulkhead on the
passenger side, but otherwise she is remarkably solid.
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She has come with the original buff log book and a sheaf of old
MoTs (not to mention a ring-binder of 1976-dated caravan site
plans and electricity bills), a footwell full of different
towing jaws and some brill hand-painted trailer numberplates.
The guy who owned her for the past 52 years used to build
caravans and he made the hardtop. He also painted her - just the
one coat - which is now peeling off to reveal the original
bronze green. IFLI!!!
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So needless to say, Becs and I bought her :D picking up this
week once I've sorted transport out. Then she's going to live at
Alex's for a week or so while I shunt stuff about at home, THEN
she'll wait a few months while I get the Series 2A finished and
back on the road.
Big big thanks to Dave for the shout (and Edd who did the
same!), Becs for being a legend and Jon for his sage buying
advice...
CHUFFED TO BITS!!!
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Re: My 80
By: mr.scruff Date: January 4, 2012, 4:35 pm
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April 13 2009
While I'm waiting on bits for the SIIA, I decided to go over to
Alex's today and do a bit of fettling. Chief job was to swop the
knackered, bald, perished and leaking 600x16 tyres for a set of
decent ones ready for the short trip home. This also gets a set
of wheels and tyres out of the way :lol:
Even a 80 is heavy when the tyres are soft so we wimped out and
used the Steph-Rover to drag her out blinking into the
daylight...
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Becca tried her out for size
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When we bought her back to Peterborough, Landyboy went searching
for the chassis number and found it, having a bit more of a
scrape around today under all the oily muck on the chassis is
the original green paint you can see here. Nice!
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Part-way through de-SLTing...
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Alex and I decided to put a battery on and see what happened...
happily there was no smoke and we even got some lights on!!
Look....!!
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Dip beam dead and needs a couple of bulbs; absolutely zilch from
the fuel pump or starter solenoid but the engine problem looks
like it's solved so no real worries there. I can do a sympthetic
engine swap without cutting or buggering anything and sort the
two-litre out when I'm rich enough... :shock:
As we hoped the worst of the flakey light green paint comes off
pretty easily with a jetwash and I spent a couple of evenings
doing the doors and bonnet when there was nothing to do on the
IIA. T-Cut and a polish (and nitromors on the galving) got them
this far I'll leave them like this and let the rest fall off as
and when. I'll do the rest of the body when we can get her near
a decent jetwash.
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Back in the garage for a little while longer, not too long I
hope, want to get her home in the yard and then start cleaning
up the underside, doing any work on the chassis, running new
brake lines etc etc.... then the wing off to do the bulkhead and
remove the 2-litre... think we'll have a few weeks of fun with
the V8 one first though. :D
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Re: My 80
By: mr.scruff Date: January 4, 2012, 4:37 pm
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May 19 2009
Well, with my 2a back on the road, Alex, Jon and Becca have let
me near the 80" :)
Big thanks to Alex and his missus Steph for putting up with it
for so long!!
With thanks to Neil from work and Al's mate Rich (who loaned us
a trailer), we brought her home last Wednesday. Goose came over
to point and laugh and give a mucho-welcome hand.
Phatty in Westy's nice dry shed, ready to go to our nice wet
yard.
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Goose makes an inspection. You need one mate :wink:
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Keep pushing lads, only 7 miles to home
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Rather than push her up the ramp (that roof is heavy) we decided
to use a bit of V8 power and a handy rope.
Mr West adjusts the ramps
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Up she goes with Goose at the helm
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Neil then did some nifty driving to back the trailer down our
drive into the yard and Goose stayed around to help push her up
the slope into the parking space :thumbs
I've got Friday off to play so it's a big clean up, then remove
the roof and screen to see just how bad the bulkhead is.
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Re: My 80
By: mr.scruff Date: January 4, 2012, 4:39 pm
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May 26 2009
Well I made a start on the engine this evening. Got the rocker
cover off and everything looks...well, like a 50 year old
engine. Nothing untoward. I really, really enjoy working on this
Land Rover - more so than any other. I'm having to take my time
and everything is covered in easing oil or just old oil, but
nothing has been a pig and it's almost relaxing working on her.
I don't know what it is; maybe because there is no immediate
rush, or maybe because it's a bit like a traction engine in so
much that she's a proper character and a little bit of history.
Anyway...
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Just the head bolts to take out and we're way. That's tomorrow
evening's job.
Even the exhaust studs came undone easily! Although I reckon she
might need a new pipe.
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I haven't had much chance to do other important jobs but the
Dulux-stripping is going well. The technique seems to be wet the
paint with boiling hot water, gently scrape, then T-Cut. Within
a couple of hours another patch is loose so this is repeated.
It's the sort of job you can dip into for ten minutes before
work or when you get home. The picture doesn't really show just
how much of the light green has come off. I've had a bag of
wheel studs in the dash of the IIA for a fortnight and some days
off stacking up, hopefully we'll get a good blat at it soon.
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Re: My 80
By: mr.scruff Date: January 4, 2012, 4:40 pm
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May 29 2009
Got the head off, it looks promising, bores look OK with no rust
and only a slight lip on no. 1 pot. I've left it soaking with
diesel overnight, don't want to force it. Gave it a bit of a
clean up in there too, much better without flaky shit and gunge
everywhere!
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Re: My 80
By: mr.scruff Date: January 4, 2012, 4:42 pm
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May 31 2009
Well the engine is still stuck. The diesel has cleaned the bores
up and there is indeed some scoring on no. 1 pot and more wear
then I had originally seen. We had Fentiger and I on a bar onto
the crank and no sign at all of it moving. I reckon it's time to
put this in a box and look for another engine - I can't afford a
2.0 rebuild at the moment. :-(
In other news though, we got her up on ramps today with help
from the IIA and a chain....
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The front of the chassis is cleaned off; much of the underside
is still original green and in great nick and so was left but
rearward of the bumpstops on one side needed treating and
painting. Front axle cleaned off and painted along with the
trackrods - are the TRE's unique to a S1, anyone? I have one to
change and have a full set of spares for my IIA...
Toby (Fentiger), Annabel (Mrs FT) and James (Goose) came over
tonight for a beer and grub and to lift the roof off - it is
seriously bloody heavy, anyone ever taken a SW roof off with the
tropical lid, headlining and all the glass? Heavier than that -
the rear springs lurched up as soon as it was lifted off! :lol:
Free at the front-
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Toby gets his breath back
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We laugh at the comedy bulkhead holes
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Then all five of us lifted the top off. Didn't help it was stuck
in the hoodstick tubes on the body. Oh and all the timber and
thick galv sheet it's made of...
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We then celebrated with a bit of open top V8 action and a run to
Pizza Hut over in Peterborough.
So, then - anyone got a engine? :cry:
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Re: My 80
By: mr.scruff Date: January 4, 2012, 4:45 pm
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June 27 2009
Made a little progress inbetween the rain. I'm replacing the
bulkhead with a rebuilt one from Ashtree Land Rovers -
thankfully they do part-ex and are taking this one and the much
better-but-still-rusty 1950 spare I bought at Driffield, so the
cost won't be too brain-damaging... certainly not the region of
the prices quoted on here by a certain S1 breaker, erm I mean
enthusiast
Started off with removing the truck cab (on loan from landyboy),
doors and bonnet.
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Grot
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Proper grot.
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You could rebuild it (Lyndon at Ashtree intends to) but TBH, I
can't be arsed with the hassle and as I'm not a brilliant welder
it would mean me burdoning friends with the task (again).
Lifted the front off in one as there's no reason to split it.
Everything came undone except for the wing-to-bulkhead bolts on
the passenger side which were as corroded as the bulkhead itself
and were spinning in the captive nuts :roll:
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Since the last pic I've got the engine side of the bulkhead
stripped, the dipswitch tube out of the column (thanks Jon for
the tutorial!!) and pulled the loom out. It's complete but bits
of it are charred and the plastic is worn through in places so I
guess it'll be a new one.
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Re: My 80
By: mr.scruff Date: January 4, 2012, 4:47 pm
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July 8 2009
After a lull due to weather I got back on it tonight and removed
the bulkhead. Amazingly I only had to use the grinder to remove
one sill bolt and that was it, everything else came undone with
no effort at all.
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We're moving to somewhere with much more room etc in three weeks
and I didn't want to take the two rusty bulkheads with me;
hoping to get and collect the newun next week and then loosely
bolt it together to flatbed her the 28 miles to our new gaff.
That's the plan, anyway!
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