Range Rover Classic

left hand side so should be OK hopefully

your skills are required here, accommodation tea, pizza and tools provided

Now if money were on offer I could be tempted to sack off the day job and come weld Range Rovers instead...

*Situation Report*

SWMBO is away until Thursday. The new owner of the Disco is collecting it on Thursday. I have the week off work.
I have until Thursday to work on the RR, unencumbered by life.

Dramatic music

Cue unrelated montage



Or not

Anyway

I have acquired some items to aid the eventual attainment of an MOT.

1 heated windscreen


An aluminium upper tailgate


And a set of good used tyres


Looking forward to getting that little lot fitted. Need to be shown how to use the tyre changing machine and the balancer and I'm waiting on a windscreen seal and some upper tailgate hinge screws.

Also got myself some welding gas and to that end I have finished the LH footwell and filch area






And a little repair to the inner wing



While the cat is away who is to say I can't steam clean car parts in the sink?






Much better!


Only got a few hours down the Motor Club today so thats it for now

I will try and get a full day in tomorrow

Oh and if any of you are watching, Thanks very much to the people who have helped me out with parts. You know who you are

Mid shift update

Got up late
Then walked the dog

So I didn't get down there till 11. Its mainly the dogs fault.

It then started snowing and was freezing in the motor club and due to reasons beyond me, all the heater plugs in the building are snipped. maybe they weren't idiot proof enough. So, being an idiot, I decided to fix my cheapo heater fan thing by taking the switch out and bypassing its internal fuse. It still has its plug fuse so it is safe...ish. More importantly it now works and with that and some halogen work lights it was still freezing cold in there. So an hour well spent.

I then moved onto the front bodymount. The rust I saw the other day was in fact mostly mud and the hole I saw is actually meant to be there. Its just where the metal is folded in the corners. So having taken that apart I wire brushed it and rust treated. That just needs paint and putting back together.

Next up

This took a lot more time than it looks

LH seatbelt mount
Old Vs new


A hole


And awaiting welding


The RH seatbelt mount has already been done and looks to be a reasonable repair, although it needs some seam sealer and underseal.

Next up


This is the last big rust spot on the car. There are about 4 other minor bits that need doing but the end of the weldathon is in sight.

Shall see how much I can get done this evening

Cheers

S’weekends work !
It it ok mechanically ?
James

So this is the only pic of the battery tray I managed to get before the phone died. There is a battery tray the other side of this. Promise.


LH rear sill repairs done


The rest of the LH sill repairs got done. Nothing particularly interesting about that. Also had to do a small repair to the rear of the LH boot floor, which was the last bit of rust on this car. I then went and wire brushed all the boot floor crossmembers to bare metal and also knocked some flakier bits of paint off the chassis. Then doused with bilt hamber rust converter


Moved onto the flakey looking fuel lines and after disconnecting at the engine end I discovered that the ends are swaged twice. one at the end of the pipe and another about an inch down and then connected to the engine via rubber hose. Being an injection car, the fuel is at high pressure and I wasn't happy I could reproduce that on the copper line so I've cut the line towards the front of the chassis but after its passed all the exhaust. Its not rusty at this point. I think if I'd just done plain line to the engine then I'd end up with fuel spraying all over the RH exhaust.
I'm glad I decided to change this as as soon as I disturbed it slightly it started leaking and when removed it did this


Lots of rust treatment, seam sealing and painting got done along side the welding but I've now run out of seam sealant. Need something to go round the centre aluminium boot floor where it meets the steel side boot floor panels and crossmembers. It looked like seam sealer there before but there where some signs of dissimilar metal corrosion. While speaking to the bloke who I bought tyres and windscreen from, who had an excellent and factory looking Discovery 1 pickup, he mentioned that my car, being an '88 should have an aluminium boot floor from the factory so maybe it is original. Apparently 1988 is a weird changeover year for these. They went over to internal hinges in 89, mine has external door hinges but internal bonnet hinges, aluminium boot floor and the seats are fluted which I think was only '88. Possibly has light up indicator and wiper stalks too, not sure yet.

And lastly the Discovery went to its new owner today in Holland so good luck to him and the car, I'm sad to see it go. Its probably the best car I've had
I didn't get a parting shot but took this yesterday

Dirty side exit ?

How about both?