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#Post#: 99271--------------------------------------------------
landy jane, the 109...
By: jonny Date: October 13, 2015, 5:10 pm
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2 build threads on the go now. Today i took delivery of the 109
i bought from Sam (captainSlow).
She arrived tea time today so only had a quick chance to look
her over. Panels nice and straight, starts, stops and drives ok.
Some work to do but it will be a case of getting to MOT standard
and then more of a rolling project.Not going to paint her,
leaving the patina there, although i may well polish her up.
Tried a small bit on a wing top and the paint came up nice. The
interior roof is ot going to be fun to clean. I know people
stick carpet to the inside of the roof, but this has had
polystyrene tiles at some point :o new one on me for sure.
So, a good clean up, get all the welding etc done, full service
including all fluids, check brakes etc then take her for an MOT.
She will be put to work as the school run vehicle (going to
freak out the ones who turn up in X5's etc) and as my daily
driver. Some quick pics taken when she arrived...
parked on what is the wild flower meadow in spring. Been told i
can't use that as a parking spot
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lovely straight panels
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no damage to dash top or bottom
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good clean and the dash will be groovy. Shep the off road sheep
dog lives in all my 4x4's
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nice and straight inside. Room for my plans :smilewide:
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dodgy bloke and his new land rover
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Thanks to Sam for trusting me with her and for helping with the
transport to her new home :thumbs:
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Re: landy jane, the 109...
By: CaptainSlow Date: October 14, 2015, 6:25 am
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Glad that you love her as much as we did (still do!) It was a
bit weird opening the front door this morning and not seeing her
there.
She needs a lot of TLC but she'll make a cracking 109 when done.
I've been amazed that she starts on LPG even after being left
for several weeks - in fact she started very promptly yesterday.
I was expecting to need to encourage her a bit, but no, she
started on the button. Sorry that I didn't have time to adjust
the door lock properly - it was a case of get it in asap and
make it as awkward to open as I can, as I live in an area
twinned with Beirut!
Looking forward to seeing her being returned to the road. The
sale was a pleasure Jonny, wish they all were as straight
forward, and glad that Martin could get her over to you for a
bit less that you'd been quoted. Believe it or not I didn't
mention your quote - Martin came up with that figure unprompted
lol.
BFN, Sam
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Re: landy jane, the 109...
By: D4B Date: October 14, 2015, 11:10 am
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Luverly 109 project..... Best wishes with it, and I look forward
to reading all about it 8)
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Re: landy jane, the 109...
By: jonny Date: October 14, 2015, 2:26 pm
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cheers Sam,
had a good pat this morning. Gave her a good jet wash today,
roof looks limestone again. Got myself soaked doing it though
::) started ok today, needed a little boost but once running was
fine.
#Post#: 99289--------------------------------------------------
Re: landy jane, the 109...
By: jonny Date: October 14, 2015, 2:29 pm
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tis nice and straight D4B :smilewide: Might take longer than
first thought, some serious chassis work to do but will be
running again ;D
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Re: landy jane, the 109...
By: jonny Date: October 14, 2015, 2:40 pm
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much cleaner
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you can see the ladders i needed to use
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may of leaked a bit when being cleaned :rolleye0012:
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#Post#: 99301--------------------------------------------------
Re: landy jane, the 109...
By: CaptainSlow Date: October 15, 2015, 3:42 am
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Looking good! :thumbs:
BTW I was intrigued about why the wheels looked more deep set
than they should... They're std LWB rims, but there are some
spacers behind them. If you don't want them I'd be interested in
buying them back :) I was going to take them off but you bought
Jane too quickly and I thought it wouldn't be right to start
stripping the good bits off after she'd been sold - bits like
the spacers and the dash lol.
ATB Sam
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Re: landy jane, the 109...
By: jonny Date: October 15, 2015, 3:49 am
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i noticed the spacer yesterday. Like you i wondered why the
wheels looked so big. Well made things as well. Will give you a
shout if i don't use them ;-)
Really pleased with her. Not sure whether to re-chassis or try
and fix the one on her, but maybe a bit beyond. No hurry to
decide though, i will put her to one side and cover her up until
the station wagon is sorted. Think she will be going diesel for
sure
#Post#: 99313--------------------------------------------------
Re: landy jane, the 109...
By: CaptainSlow Date: October 15, 2015, 1:47 pm
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I was going to re-chassis her with a new galvy one, but I didn't
get a reply from Richards and Designer Chassis has a 9 month
waiting list! I was after a very non-standard spec mind you. If
you fancy a bit of fettling, there is a new old stock genuine LR
109 Stage One V8 chassis for sale on ebay - the basic chassis is
very similar so you'd only need to move a few crossmembers and
change the engine mounts. The gearbox crossmember is removable
on these so you could swap that for a std Series gearbox cross
member - Richards sell removable ones. Just a thought.
ATB Sam
#Post#: 99314--------------------------------------------------
Re: landy jane, the 109...
By: S210912j Date: October 15, 2015, 2:23 pm
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Putting a diesel in? Oh no.... Enjoy the 2.25 on gas surely?
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