JeffR
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it'll be a lot easier swapping axles and finding requisite radius arms than , effectively , rebuilding the axle thats on! Bloody shame I binned the radius arms a few years back....
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32 minutes ago, Retroanaconda said:
What age is your Defender?
Nominally 1985, well some of it.... actually the front axle is original to the vehicle as far as I'm aware (only owned for 23 years)
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So the serious work has started on my defender, didn't intend it to be serious, but that's how the cookies crumble. The swivel balls are probably past their best , (well lets be honest cattle trucked is the technical description) ditto track rod ends, drop arm ball joint, and possibly brake callipers (three hours to remove the pads - its been stood a while), so quite a few expensive bits to replace/repair/ smack with lump hammer in bad temper.
Now in my garage is an absolutely mint late model Discovery 1 300 Tdi front axle.... can you see where this is going yet?
What are the differences between the axles, are they a straight swap, if not was contemplating just unbolting the axle ends/swivel hubs from one and bolting em on to the other. I know the spring plates are different, but thats an easy job.
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5 hours ago, Romahomepete said:
Do you have a link to where you bought it from?
Peter
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/373479802970, £7.99 ! There are loads of em on ebay, some cheaper
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You can do it by hand, but much quicker in drill. Tried it inch long rivets and it did them in one go. Like i said for less than a tenner I don't know how long it will last, but it works
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22 hours ago, smallfry said:
Erm. how can a long arm riveter go up in flames ????
Forearms like Popeye then ? 😄
Some person of doubtful parentage torched the workshop...
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On 2/25/2020 at 7:18 PM, Jocklandjohn said:
I came back from Glasgow with 3 sheets of 9' x 4' of 1.2mm alloy on the roof of the 110, on top of a carefully contructed pallet firmly fastened to the roof bars, and then the sheets screwed down with 2"x1" across them. I got to Dumbarton and sped up to 40 and heard a bang and looked in the mirror to see the sheets flapping behind me. They'd not come right off but were...er...badly bent. Trying to get the buggers back over and fastened down again was a bit of a handful. I managed. Then had to go back to the alloy suppliers and red-faced ask for more.
They were actually very kind - said they'd been impressed with my pallet and shared some horror stories of what they've had ot deal with - like the guy with the Nissan micra who collected an 8' x 4' of 2mm checker and put it on his roof on a towel, opened the windows and put two bungees over it and fastened the ends inside. He was intent on going from the middle of Glasgow to Perth! They refused to let him. Made him pay for delivery instead.
Wise not to shift them until the gale subsides!
Amateur.... I came back from YRM with two 110 load area floors and two wheel arch boxes on the roof of a 1981 Mini 1000, the noise was unbelievable, but really worth it for the looks I got. Plod, on the other hand, was, well, not amused...
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My office furniture.....SVX and Mach 5's
The wrapping paper is thanks to the works looney lagomorph who is nest building (yes, I have a rabbit with PMT...)
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23 hours ago, ThreePointFive said:
So I assume not removing it and using it as a base layer to paint over is the wrong approach then.....
Not enough powder coat left to warrant that... Only lasted 20 or so years.....
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OK, so I fell for it again... winch bumper was looking a bit scabby, no big deal, just whip it off, grind it down, paint it, you know the routine. But noticed the front panel rattled and the bonnet lock was very stiff oh and the bonnet frame was scabby and .......
so was inner wing and the under bonnet brackets were just so accessible and got a few cans of of Hammerite
and before I realised, the nut Pixies (related to the sock Pixies, but have power tools and access to my credit cards, apparently) had done this
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Shame they weren't in Northumberland, could have "borrowed" the one out of the wifes Mini.... She'd never notice
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If your passing my way. pop in I'll put the kettle on
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This is an old Dave Bowyer bumper, the powder coating is extremely thick and robust , I guess its time for a bonfire...
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1 hour ago, cackshifter said:
Painless? This has huge promise for something going wrong..... looking forward to the hydrofluoric acid bath or the TNT.
I wish you no harm Jeff but the stories of unfortunate events are highly amusing.
If I was gonna go the chemical route , Fluoroantimonic acid would be the preferred rout, Hydroflouric is for wimps.... Up North we put that stuff on chips
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Only three brands worth considering, LUK, Sachs or Valeo .
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So its refurbish the winch bumper time. Does anyone know of a quick, painless way to remove powder coat ? Angle grinder takes forever, blowtorch, well that failed miserably and I don't have access to a sandblaster. Oh and the damn thing weighs a ton
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2 hours ago, SteveG said:
Your rear radius arms are still standard Mo - oh the shame of it 😉😉😉😉
I don't know how he can live himself....
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So I was ordering some parts for my Defender and the usual question came up "what year is it ?" the usual answer is "what part?" My Defender left the factory in 1983 (ish) and has been with us for 23/4 years. In that time period the only bits that haven't been changed/modified/upgraded are the shell , engine, gearbox and front axle.
George Washingtons axe hasn't got a look in...
So does anyone have a factory spec truck?
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I've been rebuilding the bonnet on the Defender, lots of pop rivets.... My long arm riveter went up in flames, my air riveter is undergoing a rebuild after it took to jumping of the workbench so I was left with a 1970's vintage hand powered job that definitely seen better days. So I took a punt on this for £7.99:
It arrived, so off to the garage to play with it went I. Used a little 12v drill to power it and got a huge surprise, its fantastic. Half a box of rivets later and I am asking myself how did I live without one....
Yes its irritating removing the stem (put drill in reverse), but thats the only fault. Not sure how long it will last, but for less than a tenner...
Oh and my forearms love me again
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I do stuff like that all the time. Once got home from work thinking that the wife was unusually quiet on the journey.... yeah well I'd kinda forgot to pick her up on the way...
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Mike, if you or Margaret ever need to go anywhere, yell, I'm only a phone call away
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18 hours ago, western said:
Nope, use a set of steps.
Or get a tame Gibbon
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Been there, done that. Rebuilt a gearbox back in the day (ok so twas 35-40 years ago) and may late father held up a nice, long bolt "wheres this one go?". Lots of expletives deleted later gearbox stripped back down only to find that the errant bolt was for a different application of that gearbox....As my dad reiterated RTFM...
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On 6/14/2021 at 7:22 PM, FridgeFreezer said:
I mean, technically it's safer than letting you loose with a blow lamp but that's a fairly low bar...
Reminds me of the time I welded my steel toe capper to the chassis of a Morris Minor (NCB safety boots had external steel toe caps) - learned that it is much safer to get a jack, took ages for the toe nail to grow back
Front axles what fits what
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Cheers chaps, Anderzander I think they are the same, how much would sir like