Slightly our of sync post, this was pre-engine install.
Part of the delay to refit the engine was me creating jobs that needed to be done before the engine was refitted and then never making any attempt to complete these jobs.
The engine refitting blocker was fitting a hand throttle/suicide cruise control.
This came off my old diesel Landy and was part of the PTO optional extra package. Noob level Landy nerds often mistake these for "rare" items but they are relatively common apparently. I wanted to fit it so I can raise the idle on cold days to keep the blooming engine running while I scrape the frost off the outside and inside of the windows. There is a choke but when idling while cold the engine will slowly slow down until it conks out.
First off, as I have a posh carpeted model I popped out the blanking plugs on the bulkhead and marked the carpet where the holes were. I then cut holes (slightly in the wrong place, wep wep weh). The rectangular shape and holes were for the ID plate which now needs relocated.
With the handle fitted I needed to swap the throttle rod for the set with a 3rd arm. This you'd think would be super simple but in actual fact you need 6ft arms to reach into the car with one spanner while you are in the engine bay holding the nut.
With the rods and handle fitted I found I was missing a vital link that joins the two. This should have been with the throttle but had gone astray in my super organised storage dump. After a whole evening going through boxes I found the missing link.
The complete set of rods all fitted.
Hand throttle fitted, Land Rover ergonomics places the throttle at a long stretch from the drivers seat and out of reach if you are leaning in the drivers door which I thought would be pretty annoying if you were running PTO driven equipment.
Another job I had planned was replacing the fan blower and heater matrix with units scavenged from other cars. I had the nerds approved Peugeot fan blower, a Ford Mondeo unit or a Volvo unit to choose from which I had been hoarding for many years.
The Peugeot and Ford turned out to be seized and the Volvo one partially rotted... Being a mad hoarder I initially put these back in my store before having a word with myself and throwing the seized units in the scrap! Me and the wee lad had some fun blowing rags about with the Volvo fan, it has so much more puff than the old Smiths blower! That was as far as the job went, the standard kit is still fitted.
One distraction in the summer was the wife had requested a gate/partition in the next door shed, I wasn't sure what to do here as the walls are super crumbly lime mortar and I didn't have much funds for anything fancy. This building is on the first Ordnance Survey maps from 1863 (along with the house and a another even older shed) and appears to have been repurposed a few times. I dug a 3ft hole through the old concrete over cobbled floor and sunk the steel post that was originally in the cattle court portion of the shed. The post was post-creted in and I welded some rings to the steel gate that also came out of the cattle court. I then filled the gap to the wall and made a not completely terrible door out of boards reclaimed from raised planters.
Part of the delay to refit the engine was me creating jobs that needed to be done before the engine was refitted and then never making any attempt to complete these jobs.
The engine refitting blocker was fitting a hand throttle/suicide cruise control.
This came off my old diesel Landy and was part of the PTO optional extra package. Noob level Landy nerds often mistake these for "rare" items but they are relatively common apparently. I wanted to fit it so I can raise the idle on cold days to keep the blooming engine running while I scrape the frost off the outside and inside of the windows. There is a choke but when idling while cold the engine will slowly slow down until it conks out.
First off, as I have a posh carpeted model I popped out the blanking plugs on the bulkhead and marked the carpet where the holes were. I then cut holes (slightly in the wrong place, wep wep weh). The rectangular shape and holes were for the ID plate which now needs relocated.
With the handle fitted I needed to swap the throttle rod for the set with a 3rd arm. This you'd think would be super simple but in actual fact you need 6ft arms to reach into the car with one spanner while you are in the engine bay holding the nut.
With the rods and handle fitted I found I was missing a vital link that joins the two. This should have been with the throttle but had gone astray in my super organised storage dump. After a whole evening going through boxes I found the missing link.
The complete set of rods all fitted.
Hand throttle fitted, Land Rover ergonomics places the throttle at a long stretch from the drivers seat and out of reach if you are leaning in the drivers door which I thought would be pretty annoying if you were running PTO driven equipment.
Another job I had planned was replacing the fan blower and heater matrix with units scavenged from other cars. I had the nerds approved Peugeot fan blower, a Ford Mondeo unit or a Volvo unit to choose from which I had been hoarding for many years.
The Peugeot and Ford turned out to be seized and the Volvo one partially rotted... Being a mad hoarder I initially put these back in my store before having a word with myself and throwing the seized units in the scrap! Me and the wee lad had some fun blowing rags about with the Volvo fan, it has so much more puff than the old Smiths blower! That was as far as the job went, the standard kit is still fitted.
One distraction in the summer was the wife had requested a gate/partition in the next door shed, I wasn't sure what to do here as the walls are super crumbly lime mortar and I didn't have much funds for anything fancy. This building is on the first Ordnance Survey maps from 1863 (along with the house and a another even older shed) and appears to have been repurposed a few times. I dug a 3ft hole through the old concrete over cobbled floor and sunk the steel post that was originally in the cattle court portion of the shed. The post was post-creted in and I welded some rings to the steel gate that also came out of the cattle court. I then filled the gap to the wall and made a not completely terrible door out of boards reclaimed from raised planters.