Mr.BlueSky

I added a tire lubricator. They've been getting warm and I don't want them to overheat. Typical land rover problems...
 

I added a tire lubricator. They've been getting warm and I don't want them to overheat. Typical land rover problems...
 

Put new brake lines and new winch bumper on the 110.

Didn't do a whole lot. Just drove it home and parked it next to it's new friend the 110. 
 
 

I should add I took the door panel off and jumped the window motor to roll the window back up before the rains! Seems I have a bit of electrical work in my future!  

Spent most of today driving around the Bay area inspecting auto parts stores... Frankly the selection is appalling. It is more of a parts desert out here than the middle of nowhere MidWest...
 
After conducting said inspections I managed to use the parts I collected to finally get the OM617 fired up. Victory... Onward and rearwards, to the clutch assembly that is 
 

 
And tomorrow, well let's just say I may not be working on "my" rover....    

Didn't do a whole lot. Just drove it home and parked it next to it's new friend the 110. 
 
 

I should add I took the door panel off and jumped the window motor to roll the window back up before the rains! Seems I have a bit of electrical work in my future!  

Didn't do a whole lot. Just drove it home and parked it next to it's new friend the 110. 
 
 

I should add I took the door panel off and jumped the window motor to roll the window back up before the rains! Seems I have a bit of electrical work in my future!  

After giving it a thought. September is long enough away to have a rover ready. Sign Theresa and I up! 
 
I'll put the dates in at work tomorrow.

Didn't do a whole lot. Just drove it home and parked it next to it's new friend the 110. 
 
 

I should add I took the door panel off and jumped the window motor to roll the window back up before the rains! Seems I have a bit of electrical work in my future!  

After giving it a thought. September is long enough away to have a rover ready. Sign Theresa and I up! 
 
I'll put the dates in at work tomorrow.

Didn't do a whole lot. Just drove it home and parked it next to it's new friend the 110. 
 
 

I should add I took the door panel off and jumped the window motor to roll the window back up before the rains! Seems I have a bit of electrical work in my future!  

The cap removal saga continues...    Nice progress though!

Didn't do a whole lot. Just drove it home and parked it next to it's new friend the 110. 
 
 

I should add I took the door panel off and jumped the window motor to roll the window back up before the rains! Seems I have a bit of electrical work in my future!  

The cap removal saga continues...    Nice progress though!

Front and rear are done. Just need to strip the rear lug nuts of those stupid caps and fix the panhard / watts link issues in the front and rear and then get aligned. After that, just need to fix all the weird sounds I’m bound to get. Should be good to go for shaver!
 
 
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Spent most of today driving around the Bay area inspecting auto parts stores... Frankly the selection is appalling. It is more of a parts desert out here than the middle of nowhere MidWest...
 
After conducting said inspections I managed to use the parts I collected to finally get the OM617 fired up. Victory... Onward and rearwards, to the clutch assembly that is 
 

 
And tomorrow, well let's just say I may not be working on "my" rover....    

Those photos are awesome. Looks like it will be a classic trip. What time of year was the trip where you got the snow?
 
I would be thrilled to make it this year, but I don't think the our currently unarmored... 110 would be up for it. 

Well it wasn't today but it was over the weekend so I think it counts.  Disco got a little love after the carnage it suffered on fordyce a week ago.  Thanks to Mr. Scully, and in a round about way Mr. Terry, I was able to pick up a used tail light assembly to replace the one I smashed while stuck and partly broken.  Replacing a disco tail light assembly isn't too difficult but it is an exercise in flexibility and dexterity if you don't remove the jump seat.  I would probably have saved plenty of time removing the seat, but hindsight and all that.  I did have to play body shop for a bit as it wasn't just the lens that suffered my wrath but the sheet metal too.  All in all it took about 1.5 hours to get it done.  
 
Then I moved onto the axle.  One thing that I didn't mention on my write up from the earlier was that when installing the replacement rear axle shaft one of the bolts snapped off with surprisingly little force, or perhaps all those days in the gym have paid off.  Regardless, I made it home with 4.5 of 5 bolts installed.  I had hoped that it would have broken high enough to leave me a little bit to grab onto but upon removal of the axle shaft the break was about 1/4" inside the hub.  Dang.  Out came the drill and easy out, and for once, it was easy.  That is after I located the correct sized drill bit for the easy out.  I was using an impact to remove the bolts and the truck was on a bit of a slope and didn't notice that the full weight of the rig was on the one axle that I was removing so when it backed out the threads on the bolt got all munched up.  So I replaced two bolts.  To for the price of one right?  I figure I got a deal.
 
Finally it was onto the P38.  The disco tucked away the dog guard in the P38 had been flopping around.  Assuming you aren't familiar with dog guards from 18 year old vehicles this one was not a stock item and neither were its mounts.  It mounts from the roof by the way of two plastic blocks that screw to the roof structure via some rivnuts.  A rivnut is a cobmo of a rivet and a nut used in a place where a blind inside thread is needed in a thin material like sheet metal.  Basically it's a nut, made of in this case aluminum, that is designed to crush in a predetermined spot so it holds like a rivet.  Whoever originally attempted to install the dog guard obviously didn't know how these things work.  There is a very expensive special tool that can be used to install these things and it works great bit that previous owner didn't have one, and neither do I.  What the owner did have was some epoxy, which they used.  I suppose at least it wasn't JB weld although that's been holding Don's transmission together so if they had it could have saved me a little time.  Anyway, a quick youtube search revealed an easy way to install these things without the aforementioned expensive special too.  After digging through the spare nuts and bolts drawer I found a nut and some washers that would "work".  I was able to install one of 4 rivnuts before destroying the nut I had found but I was on my way to the local Ace Hardware anyway so i picked up the right stuff and the other three went without incident.  It all went back together and cleaned up quickly. 
 
Hopefully the rest of my rover projects go this well.  Happy wheeling. 

More engine swap progress!
 
https://youtu.be/ulLYPiv6ovY

More engine swap progress!
 
https://youtu.be/ulLYPiv6ovY

Let's just say "major" mechanical repairs aren't exactly kosher at our current rental... granted, I don't think I have attempted anything major... although, I may also not be the best judge of that. 
 
And you should have seen the ooze dripping off that block before I painted it! 

Time lapse of the enamel spray of the OM617
 

 
And then Sunday's progress getting it back on the stand and the oil pans swapped.
 

 
@Dhappel, I had a soft hex fail too... maybe it's that time of year?

Spent the weekend prepping the OM617 for enamel!
 
Behold the Paintbooth 5000!!
 

 

 

 
All masked off and ready to spray.
 

I guess that is for me to know. In the end, you have to love your hobbies though!

Whoa am I only one doing things to for my rover these days???
 
July was sooo 3 months ago 
 
Anyway, this past weekend with a raging fever I decided to clear out space so that the 110 could get it's prime spot back. Roxy was getting jealous of Daryl the Donor Benz.
 

 
(que the song of the sawzall)
 

 

 

 
Good bye forever!!!