IVE COPIED THIS FROM THE MAIN FORUM I USE, SO FORGIVE IT FOR NOT MAKING SENSE IN PLACES!
So, its a kinda long story, but my dad discovered a 1961 Rover P4 100 2.6 straight 6 in a barn in the grounds of this old mill. Its taken 6 odd months to manage to convince the old guy who owns it all to sell it to us, but yesterday he gave in and we purchased it from him. Then it was the job to try and get it out of where its sat for over 30 years, which we started on last night! Anyway, Ill explain with some pictures!
This is the old mill which its in the grounds of:
As the pictures show, the exterior does need a clean up, theres a small amount of corrosion here and there, but over all its very solid (as far as we can see). But really its in outstanding original condition!
Safety first! lol
Pumping up the tyres... Yes, they actually held pressure!!
Now for the really amazing bit, the interior!! Obviously it needs a bloody good clean, but its in outstanding condition
See what I mean!!
Trying to free the brakes up.. luckily the front ones are fine, as they're discs, but the rears were a little stubborn!
So much so that one of the rear tyres decided to blow out! Which made my dad jump slightly haha.
The engine is seized, not that thats really any problem, hopefully it wont need any welding doing underneath.
I'm going over in a bit with a Landy Defender with big beefy tyres (the discovery spun up too easily, even in diff lock) and a small car transporter.
So, the next day…
Hoping that it wouldnt be too much of a pain in the ass.
I'll let the pictures do the talking.
As the poor road tyres on the disco werent going to cut the mustard, we broke out the defender with beefy tyres.
Mobile tool kit!
Jacked her up to try and find the problem as to why the rear wheels werent turning
Took the drum off, that wasnt the problem, as it still wasnt turning
Decided the best thing to do was to disconnect the prop, which we did.
SNORTED!
In comes the landy to tow it out! - Which was a slight challenge because of all the wet weather, even in low range diff lock, but she pulled through! This hill was alot steeper in real life.
As the engine is seized we've chucked down some diesel into the cylinders, hopefully this may work in unseizing the pistons, without having to take the head off - because we're lazy.
After looking over it all, theres a few small spots of corrosion, the front o/s wing has a hole in it inside, but it can most probably be repaired. Think we're going to get the whole thing resprayed, as repairing/spraying each panel just isnt worth it.
Engine out, ended up being one very seized piston, but that's all free'd up, ordered new piston rings, engine enamel ordered, head sent away for a skim.
Wings off, these have been repaired as there was some rust, but luckily not too much!
Back home and into the garage to take the suspension off clean, to put new bushes in and paint up the front of the chassis and suspension with this special chassis paint (awesome stuff!!)
Back to the garage...
Now the engine was ready to go in, which has been rebuilt with one new piston (as one of the previous was ceased solid and ended up needing replacing) and new piston rings - everything else was in such good nick! And obviously all cleaned and painted, as close to original as possible. The more we look at it, the more it looks like the 17,000 miles on the clock is genuine.
Couple of nicely painted up pieces -
And the best bit
VIDEO!!! vvvvv
^^^^
So, its a kinda long story, but my dad discovered a 1961 Rover P4 100 2.6 straight 6 in a barn in the grounds of this old mill. Its taken 6 odd months to manage to convince the old guy who owns it all to sell it to us, but yesterday he gave in and we purchased it from him. Then it was the job to try and get it out of where its sat for over 30 years, which we started on last night! Anyway, Ill explain with some pictures!
This is the old mill which its in the grounds of:
As the pictures show, the exterior does need a clean up, theres a small amount of corrosion here and there, but over all its very solid (as far as we can see). But really its in outstanding original condition!
Safety first! lol
Pumping up the tyres... Yes, they actually held pressure!!
Now for the really amazing bit, the interior!! Obviously it needs a bloody good clean, but its in outstanding condition
See what I mean!!
Trying to free the brakes up.. luckily the front ones are fine, as they're discs, but the rears were a little stubborn!
So much so that one of the rear tyres decided to blow out! Which made my dad jump slightly haha.
The engine is seized, not that thats really any problem, hopefully it wont need any welding doing underneath.
I'm going over in a bit with a Landy Defender with big beefy tyres (the discovery spun up too easily, even in diff lock) and a small car transporter.
So, the next day…
Hoping that it wouldnt be too much of a pain in the ass.
I'll let the pictures do the talking.
As the poor road tyres on the disco werent going to cut the mustard, we broke out the defender with beefy tyres.
Mobile tool kit!
Jacked her up to try and find the problem as to why the rear wheels werent turning
Took the drum off, that wasnt the problem, as it still wasnt turning
Decided the best thing to do was to disconnect the prop, which we did.
SNORTED!
In comes the landy to tow it out! - Which was a slight challenge because of all the wet weather, even in low range diff lock, but she pulled through! This hill was alot steeper in real life.
As the engine is seized we've chucked down some diesel into the cylinders, hopefully this may work in unseizing the pistons, without having to take the head off - because we're lazy.
After looking over it all, theres a few small spots of corrosion, the front o/s wing has a hole in it inside, but it can most probably be repaired. Think we're going to get the whole thing resprayed, as repairing/spraying each panel just isnt worth it.
Engine out, ended up being one very seized piston, but that's all free'd up, ordered new piston rings, engine enamel ordered, head sent away for a skim.
Wings off, these have been repaired as there was some rust, but luckily not too much!
Back home and into the garage to take the suspension off clean, to put new bushes in and paint up the front of the chassis and suspension with this special chassis paint (awesome stuff!!)
Back to the garage...
Now the engine was ready to go in, which has been rebuilt with one new piston (as one of the previous was ceased solid and ended up needing replacing) and new piston rings - everything else was in such good nick! And obviously all cleaned and painted, as close to original as possible. The more we look at it, the more it looks like the 17,000 miles on the clock is genuine.
Couple of nicely painted up pieces -
And the best bit
VIDEO!!! vvvvv^^^^
