Cornish Rattler

Wow i know these are in stainles steel but i remember years ago a full mild steel exhaust system for a petrol from paddocks was only £35

Going to sholts it.

Not done much today just fitted the X members to the tub and cleaned a few bits up

Yeah i'm trying to work out if the tub is newer than the landy is as the tub look quite clean and undamaged / rotten in places most are plus both the corners where the lights are fitted are like new one had no corner cover fitted and is like new but where the reg plate would be looks like its had at least 4 veriant size reg plates fitted in the past and according to the guy we got it from said he was an archeologist and has had the landy in Egypt and i'm wondering if its lived over there for a while which kind of would explain why the tub is in good nick and may have had a small reg plate fitted but can't understand why the bulkhead was as bad as it was

Scraped the old paint / underseal off from the underside of the floor then I filled all the additional holes in the tub with pop rivets then once the tub parts I've ordered start to come in I can fit some before the tub gets painted

Its ok i've sorted one now

Left the paint stripper to do its work this morning will have a go at removing the old paint / underseal tomorow

Some more

Spent the afternoon removing the cappings ready for painting

Yeah should be as with all the other's i've always off roaded them and wasn't to fust how it looked but with this one being for the road only i've gone to town on it

Yeah tbh its the best one i've seen the ones i've had in the past have been really bad and just repared them so with this one it just needed a light repair so decided going this way

Yeah if i was rebuilding it to sell then i would have replaced the floor with new but as its a keeper this will have to do

The chequer plate will only fitted for show really as the rear wheel arches are full of holes from the past owners and won't be carrying heavy weight as i have a trailer for anything heavy , was thinking of buying a tub chequer plate kit which covers the floor, wheel arch sides and tops they are expensive but saves cutting everything out from scratch 🙂

then once I get the new galv X members I can rivet them in as well

one pic of the plates riveted in place and one with the hole plated.

Made a few small repairs to the tub today as there was 5 points where the X members fix to the rails so I plated all 15 points so the X members would fit proper then I repaired the hole in the floor, I do plan to chequer plate the inside of the tub so the rivets where the patch on the floor will be covered

Dragged the tub in this morning and started work cleaning all the crud from the underneath then removed the X members and all the aditianal nuts and bolts the p.o had put in over the years, just need to sort out a couple of holes in the yub where the X members have been that i need to sort out

Yes it was a shaft that went through the bell housing that fitted to a tube to work the clutch and the slave cylinder push rod attatched to the other end.

Yeah its very anoying as i remember painting it when i painted the slave cylinder mount bracket must be at least 12 months ago now

Hi guys Need your help again please, as well as misplacing the clutch release shaft I seemed to have lost the slave cylinder push rod as well and just wondered if you can still buy then as I can't find any on the internet

Well I literally emptied the garage out today to look for the clutch release shaft to no avail so I've had to resort to buying a new one which should be here hopefully next week so once I put everything back I fitted the steering rods and injector pipes then a delivery of more bits arrived amongst them was a gallon of ep90 gear oil and a new slave cylinder so I immediately set work on fitting the slave cylinder and topping up the gearbox and transfer box

Yeah, the only one i've left out is the gear lever as i plan to fit a slick shift but the gear lever with that is stainless steel so not sure if to paint it or not but think it will look out of place left stainless steel so probably will.

Painted and fitted the h/b lever inc the linkage between the h/b lever and X brake lever, adjusted accordingly and set at 2 clicks then replaced the new BP steering relay with a new Bearmach one inc new arms and coller, just need to dig out the clutch mech which will finish fitting the gearbox off ( forgot all about it )

Yeah i've just got the two L shaped brackets to fit but without instructions i'm not sure where and how they fit