Rob
03-10-2005, 17:07
I recently offered some time and assistance to Wayne and his mate Dave in a quest to rebuild our 200Tdi 90 on a glavanised chassis - and stick in a salvage bulkhead. I must say, this is not something that I would have attempted on my own, but was able to be a spanner monkey/tea boy for a few of the days of the project.
After about 9 days (verging on nights too), 1 1/2 jars of coffee and a whole lot of garage sarnies, chocolate and Monster Munch, we opened up a bottle of beer to celebrate Mel getting her vehicle back and me not having to run her to work every day :D The number of "I will sort that out another day" had been reduced due to the hours put in, for which I am eternally greatful. I can't thanks these guys enough for all the work.
Once I have found my camera cable, I will get some pictures up of the work in progress, but in the meantime I have attatched acouple that Wayne took aboult half way through.
I sourced the chassis from Richards Chassis (http://www.richardschassis.co.uk) who I have to commend. Their service was great, only took a couple of days from initial call to delivery, and all of the holes (bar 3 which only needed a slight adjustment) were either drilled or drilled and tapped were in the right place.
Lots of other parts came next day mail order (which only cost £4 at the time) from Paddock Spares (http://www.paddockspares.com) who were pretty switched on and helped loads.
A few other bits came from the helpful (if not slightly more expensive) people at 3 Land rover parts counters around Sussex and Hampshire.
Hopefully this will mean that the Landy will have many years of service left in it - and now I can start looking for new doors, body caoping etc, etc, etc ;)
Anyway, I will post more later when I have got my life sorted out.
So has anyone else conducted major open vehicle surgery to keep something on (or off) the road?
After about 9 days (verging on nights too), 1 1/2 jars of coffee and a whole lot of garage sarnies, chocolate and Monster Munch, we opened up a bottle of beer to celebrate Mel getting her vehicle back and me not having to run her to work every day :D The number of "I will sort that out another day" had been reduced due to the hours put in, for which I am eternally greatful. I can't thanks these guys enough for all the work.
Once I have found my camera cable, I will get some pictures up of the work in progress, but in the meantime I have attatched acouple that Wayne took aboult half way through.
I sourced the chassis from Richards Chassis (http://www.richardschassis.co.uk) who I have to commend. Their service was great, only took a couple of days from initial call to delivery, and all of the holes (bar 3 which only needed a slight adjustment) were either drilled or drilled and tapped were in the right place.
Lots of other parts came next day mail order (which only cost £4 at the time) from Paddock Spares (http://www.paddockspares.com) who were pretty switched on and helped loads.
A few other bits came from the helpful (if not slightly more expensive) people at 3 Land rover parts counters around Sussex and Hampshire.
Hopefully this will mean that the Landy will have many years of service left in it - and now I can start looking for new doors, body caoping etc, etc, etc ;)
Anyway, I will post more later when I have got my life sorted out.
So has anyone else conducted major open vehicle surgery to keep something on (or off) the road?