Cornish Rattler

Think paddocks sent the gearbox's out to a land rover gearbox specialist but can't for the life of me remember who it was

Yeah I think so but I don't have any seats as yet to try but I could have a measure up of the Mazda seats fitted to the 90 assuming the Def and 2a's seat boxes are the same hight wise from the floor but I suppose I will have to look at that once everything else is in place as its still at the rolling chassis stage yet

Love the dash, I was thinking of some how using two dash panels next to each other in the center but over lapping the partition towards the steering column and using one side for the two large gauges and the other for the switches and smaller gauges, if not as mine is the later 2a with the later wiper's I was thinking of fitting the smaller gauges in the panel that fits above the dash if its strong enough for cutting holes in and probably stay with the std dash for the large gauges and switches, but I will look at it more when I get to the bulkhead stage

Yeah on the none electric Mazda seats the seat bases are removable so can get to the fuel tank and battery fairly easy but mite consider a side door for the battery / tool box on this one though

Its amazing what you find in gearbox's and sump's and they run perfectly fine, it could be something that was broke in the past and repaired / replaced hence why its running ok, its a big job sometimes looking for something inside that's an easy fix without stripping the box out and down if what ever it is that's fell in isn't effecting the box

Hi guys Originally I was going to fit Def front cloth seat in the 2a with side facing rear cloth seats in the back but the Def seats new or used have shot up and would probably cost about £1,000 used and £2,000 new so I have now decided on fitting some Mazda rx8 front cloth seats instead like the ones I had in the 90 but these will be the lighter none electric manual ones with a cubby box in the middle then for the back fit a pair of bench seats and have some seat bases and back rests made up in matching cloth ( Grey ) as I want to carpet the rear out inc sides and roof to make it more cumfy. So has anyone else fitted Mazda RX8 seats in a S11/111 before as they are a great cumfy long distance driving seat

Fitted the new rear diff over the weekend then today I fitted the new valve stem caps ( missing ) reset the valves and fitted the rocker cover back on

Cleaned the diff I bought the other day for the 2a and removed the flange and seal ready to replace just as a matter of course as it was covered in oil

Grabbed a Def / Disco diff yesterday at Kelmarsh Bargain £25 with no backlash at all for the 2a so just need to clean it up and order a new output seal and gasket aswell as order a set of rear Paras and hopfully fit them all next weekend, can't wait

Well I was quite impressed I was expecting it to be more of a Peterborough show but as it turned out it was more like a Billing show with all the stalls together but without the off road course being there as that was a little bit further up the same road, I would have liked a few more stalls there but its a new venue so hopfully next year there will be more if there is one Oh I managed to get a Disco / Def diff for the rear axle on the 2a so that will be fitted soon

Yeah I think it changed a lot after the landy mags started battling it out every year to get one over each other to run the show so it started to loose its self after that and other shows started springing up everywhere, I miss the big guys like craddocks and the tyre changing company's that drew the crowds in with live auctions and tyre changing going on, I too get fed up with iron monger, Sauna and other car stalls that tend to flood into the shows now a days but I suppose that's the way it is these days, shame though

Yeah tbh I would have liked to have gone to the farm run event rather than the Kelmarsh one as I think it would have more of a vibe to it being on and so close to the original site where as I think Kelmarsh will just be another Peterborough show, its just a shame son and g/friend can't make it the following weekend as we would have all gone there instead but there is always next year and maybe if I am lucky the 2a will be done in time

Anyone else from here going

Are right ok that explains the confusion then as I read earlier this year that the farm was doing there own billing show but son wants to go to this one and the venue seems different to what I had read earlier this year

Hi guys Just wondered if anyone is going to the billing show ( Kelmarsh ) 21-22 July 2017 and just thought I would ask is it on the farm that used to do the camping for the original shows or is it a different venue all together now as I am

I managed to sell my new old std springs I took off the 2a a couple of weeks ago yesterday to a member of another forum so hoping to go to the new billing show ( Kelmarsh ) I think its called so I will try and get some rear Paras from there plus some other bit's n bob's I need for the 2a

Some pic's of some of the work I have been doing on the 2a over the last couple of days

Off this week so been busy working on the 2a, replaced the front springs with new Parabolic springs, replaced the engine oil seals as I had replaced them with BP ones before we decided we was keeping the 2a and have now replaced them with Bearmach ones instead, re-fitted the bottom end of the engine to the chassis and gearbox as it was just easier to fit and torque the head down this way than struggle with it on the bench then built the head up afterwards, just got a few other bit's n bob's to fit like flexi brake pipes, bump stop's and stuff that I have had laying around since buying them earlier this year Will post pic's later

Think early Range Rover's used the later ones aswell

Noise wise I think you would need to fit some sort of matting / soundproofing to the bulkhead, we have just replaced our bulkhead on the 90 ( 200tdi ) the old bulkhead had factory fitted carpet on the bulkhead which was stuck down well and couldn't transfer it over onto the new bulkhead so atm there is no carpet / soundproofing on the new bulkhead and it is quite noisy in there now. As regards the engine mounts I have never used the Def mounts but have used 2.25P mounts with a tdi in the past and I have fitted the same mounts on the one I am doing now as I never had a problem with them but have heard bad things if you use 2.25D mounts but would imagine Def mount would be just as good as 2.25P mounts if not better

Can't wait for next week so I can start doing stuff on the 2a whilst I am off next week

Nice one and yes I will as regards the pic's

Yeah will do

These are of our 90 rock / tree slider's and looking down the door to the rock slider the rock slider sticks out about 1" which would be ok but on my last 2a the rock slider stuck out about 1/2" so if it sticks out either 1/2" or 1" I would be happy

All the bits I ordered the other day arrived today so as I am off for a week in two weeks time I will fit them then aswell as fit more shelving in the garage