elbekko
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It was very nice seeing everyone again and meeting the new people. Lots of fun was had. I got to test out the bumper and winch, even though I didn't actually get stuck. Somehow the car came back less broken than when we left
As Filip said, the drive back was fairly painful. Not a lot of time to spare, so the dog had to hold it in until France. But we managed. Arrived home around 5:30. Really should just stay until monday next year...
Pictures and videos here:
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Ouch, glad you found that at home and not by the side of the road!
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So, that paint is useless. It scratches off by looking at it. Whatever, it's not the colour I wanted anyway.
Finished it up today. Drilled out the mounting holes to 16mm to have some alignment leeway. The S355 at a brand new drill bit
But much cursing and an hour and a half later, I managed to drill 4 holes. Wired up thanks to @Escape. It worked well to spool up, at least.
Modified the freespool lever to clock it 90°. If you redrill the stop bolt, it'll go side to side instead of up and down. Managed to get the hole just barely straight enough to work.
Fitted the skidplate, as well. Took a bit of modifying to fit it around the tow hook on the chassis. And it doesn't fit very well because everything is crooked
It's on with a few bolts and a few self-tappers, it'll do. Looks nice, though, even if it was a right pain to fit.
And clamped the front plate with the fairlead, works ok. Would be better if the top screws were countersunk as well. Or move it to the side. Maybe some day. We'll see.
Only took pictures once I got her loaded up on the trailer:
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Loaded up and ready to go.
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Cut some more metal out.
Replaced the liner in the welder (badly).
Ground down more welds (badly).
Painted it (badly).
Tried to drill the mounting holes oversize for some more adjustment, failed, drill dulled, and I suddenly couldn't manage to sharpen it anymore, even though I managed fine last weekend.
I wonder how terrible this paint will be. It dried quickly, at least.
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Today was mostly bodywork... winching to a column, pulling up with the transmission jack, hammering, and a shim under the body mount...
Fits much better now.
Cut out the top plate, and test fit the winch. And threw it on the car again to have a final look.
Pretty happy with the result. Should do some more grinding of the welds on the bottom plate. And cut out the wings so the big tyres don't eat into them.
Then probably throw some paint on... and wire in the winch. The end is nigh!
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54 minutes ago, ThreePointFive said:
I get the impression from the US that as long as you have the VIN plate, you can do practically anything you want to the rest of it. That seems to be the market they're aiming for.
Still, to use parts of a Rover live axle to make fully indepedent suspension all round, and that propshaft jiggery is really something. I only wish the camera had picked up more of what they were talking about at the same time they were looking at it.
I don't really get why they went that route instead of putting the electric motors on an LT230 PTO. Especially since they had to run a V drive to offset the prop anyway.
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13 minutes ago, Stellaghost said:
Not for me, however, if that looking forward coincides with summer sisters....well.........
Regards Stephen
As said, wouldn't mind helping out a bit at Summer Sisters with electrics. Although I doubt you need it, from the wiring you've already done.
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15 minutes ago, Stellaghost said:
Bloody comedian........lol
Regards Stephen
After a weekend of metalworking, I'm looking forward to some wiring
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Ooh, wires.
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13 minutes ago, landroversforever said:
Ahh! Well it certainly looks nothing like 16cm in that picture
should be good for now at least 
Yeah, it isn't going anywhere I think.
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4 minutes ago, Ed Poore said:
@elbekko just be sure it's the liner not the feed motor. Not sure how you'd check - the torch is normally just a switch so perhaps you can remove it to eliminate all resistance and then short out the appropriate contacts to get the feed motor turning.
See whether it still stutters or if its the resistance of the liner doing it.
With regards to gas I normally start at the lower end of 10-15cfm and see if it's making nice welds. If you back off the gas it's obvious when it's too low so maybe get some scrap, turn down the gas and run some tests. Then increase it slowly until you're happy with it. At least eliminate that as its easy enough to do so before spending money and time replacing bits.
I just replaced the feed motor, and it does fine in some torch positions, so I don't think it's that. And it's had wire feed issues since I got it (which is why my friend wanted to get rid of it).
1 minute ago, landroversforever said:Looking good Ben! Only thing I'd possibly want to do, is more weld on the eyes if you can? the amount welded might be deceptive though.
I'd love to. But right now I'm just making things worse with how the welder is acting. There's a good 5cm of heavy weld on each side of the bars to the side plates, plus heavy welds all around where they stick through the front plate.
Looks are deceptive indeed, they're sticking ~16cm into the bumper, so a large portion of them isn't welded. Also not sure how well I can reach in there to weld them further...-
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3 minutes ago, Wytze said:
Had a quick look on google, between 6 and 12 euro, so prettie cheap😁
Yeah, that's alright. There seems to be a few different types though? I'll pop the one that's in there out, and see if they have anything at Metaleuven.
5 minutes ago, Bowie69 said:Apologies, I'm getting people's forum names muddled up, must be my age
That's alright, no offense taken. Equally deranged, but in different ways
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10 minutes ago, Wytze said:
It read's like it's the liner of the torch.
These liner things. Are they universal, you think? I'd love to replace it, if it's not half the price of a new torch.
5 hours ago, Bowie69 said:BFH TIME.
Maybe. Or some disassembly and see what's actually bent, and try to straighten it.
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Almost done now!
Started off with fitting the other front plate. A bit of pondering later, and I decided to tack in some small pieces of plate to act as stops for the bend.
A bit of help from the jack, as master Yoda I am not:
And that worked beautifully. Half an hour of prep, five minutes of fitting. Had to adjust the tabs a bit, as measuring twice is obviously no use when you fail to read a ruler. Nothing the welder and grinder couldn't solve.
The word of the day is "clamps". I brought some more from home today, and was still constantly looking for more clamps.
All tacked up and ready for welding.
Welded the outside of the seams, and threw some heavy stitch welds on from the inside as well.
This is where the welder started to act up again. It just didn't want to get a good weld going there, just sputtering and generally being stupid. I thought maybe impurities had been blown into the back, and was contaminating this weld. Cleaning seemed to not help much. But I managed with perseverance.
And then on to fitting the tow hooks. Bit of lay-out work, drilling out to 15.5mm (biggest drill I could find in the workshop). Then some filing to make it fit, along with some mild persuasion of Mr. Hammer.
Both fitted and welded in.
And then welded from the back as well.
Nicely in line with one of the chassis bolts. That's not going anywhere
Of course the welder wasn't loving life here either, and the other side just refused get a proper weld started again.
I'm wondering now if maybe I have the gas set too high and it's blowing out my puddle in enclosed spaces? On the other hand, I can hear the tone of the wire feed motor change when the torch isn't in the sweet zone, so the torch probably is dead. Seems like it gets worse as it heats up. So probably the liner? Or the whole torch, but it'll need a conversion to euro torch... gets expensive quickly
Somehow the adapter seems to cost almost as much as a torch...
Started grinding the welds. Thick disc leaves a very uneven surface, but the flap discs die fairly quickly
To finish off, I tried fitting it on the car. I wanted some motivation.
That failed
The twist in the body from previous accident danage is too much, and is stopping the bumper from seating properly.
Rest day tomorrow, more on tuesday...
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Lots of progress made today
After fixing the dent in the chassis, started by fitting the side plates:
Put some washers in so hopefully things still fit after welding.
Then got distracted making some tow hooks. On friday I picked up 1m of 16mm round bar, for the princely sum of €5. Found a wonderfully old-school metal shop not far from home:
Super friendly people, too.
So, got on with trying to make these tow hooks. To fit between the chassis plates, they have to be 8cm wide.
Found some pipe to bend them around, and then muscled it sort of into shape.
This, predictably, did not go very well. Heavy work, everything moving everywhere but where it's supposed to go.
But it turned out ok, after almost two hours of fighting it:
For the second one, I tried being a bit more intelligent.
Stuffed some dead tree carcass into the pipe to prevent it from collapsing. Went well after sharpening the end of the pipe.
The (ab)using the press to push said form tool into the rest of the bar.
Had to make a notched extension piece so the press could reach the bottom of the bar.
Going well:
Muuuch nice, even if I had to finish it off in the vice.
(Left is try 2, right try 1.
Then threw the top plate on:
Started welding things up:.
And then tried to fit one of the front plates. This kicked my butt for a good 3 hours.
But I managed:
Just need to drill a hole in it for the tow point. And then do the other side...
The welder did fine. Although I think a new liner or torch is in order, when there's a bit too much bend in the torch tube, it starts struggling to wire feed.
More on sunday...
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Pop over to Wales on saturday for Summer Sisters?
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7 hours ago, Bowie69 said:
Must only be one late night from completion?
You overestimate my ability to not royally screw up
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4 hours ago, Bowie69 said:
Have a good weekend away, Sam, hope to see you soon.
Weirdly I think I'm ready, but I have a few things that would be nice to haves.... But essentially I could leave tomorrow if it were this weekend!
How ready is everyone else?
Not.
Then again, I can throw my tyres and old bumper on, and drive around. But would be really nice to at least get the bumper sorted...
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2 hours ago, Bowie69 said:
That's cheaper than I thought they were. If you're buying a new grease gun anyway, that's a no-brainer...
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What we usually do is get the engine and gearbox somewhat aligned, and then put some long threaded rods into the bellhousing holes. This keeps everything aligned while trying to get the splines to engage, without the pressure of bolts.
Then usually you can push on the engine while rotating the crank and it'll pop in.
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None so far. Have been busy with other stuff like work and not melting in the heat.
Yesterday's workshop time was spent on fitting the roof tent to the Merc, and didn't feel like getting changed and doing welding afterwards. I'll probably try to spend some more time on this this weekend.
And it'll be without Filip's help, as he's at Graspop the next few days. After many years of going, I've decided it's no longer worth the back pain and huge crowds... but Filip is still crazy enough to go
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Nice write-up, interesting
14 minutes ago, Maverik said:
That's quite the hot air intake.
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But much cursing and an hour and a half later, I managed to drill 4 holes.
It's on with a few bolts and a few self-tappers, it'll do. Looks nice, though, even if it was a right pain to fit.
should be good for now at least 
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From what I saw, @Daan. He and his truck have a habit of suddenly appearing where you really don't expect them. Like driving up the winch challenge course where Sid was having to winch up.
Sid was impressive to see in many ways this weekend. Few teething issues. The main thing it needs is more flexible tyres and the power to spin them properly.
And maybe a temp gauge and oil pressure light