But, if the truck can be off the road for a bit, then strip as much as you can first.
Be prepared to remove the screen, if the rot goes that far, and the wing. It all makes the quality of the repair much easier and better.
Umm.
That's difficult to answer.
It's easily 50 years old.
Large body, 60 hp engine, low gearing. Not fast.
50 year old engine?
Not likely to be faster.
Plus drum brakes, steering box and relay, 6 ball joints, etc.
Very different driving experience. Think 1930's bus.
Not on my truck, but on my sister's.
We're re commissioning her series three, 3 bearing petrol. After the usual popping and farting from lying up it started running quite well.
But the rad cap is leaking, and not bleeding down to the expansion vessel.
Aside from the obvious, new cap, what else could be wrong?
The TDI isn't a standard engine for a series, so the Glow plug arrangement that the retro fitter followed would be unknown to the replacement loom maker.
The series diesel had the glow plug resistor on the bulkhead, it's probable that they followed the original arrangement.
Presuming, of course, that you didn't commission and design a specific adaption to the standard loom.
The coffee table idea. I think a garden table might work.
For now, despite the temptation to break out the spanners, it will be ignored. I might dump some burned engine oil into it, with a few litres of kero as company.
It's a 251 suffix, 2a, 7:1 ratio head.
You've not seen the cam!
Honestly, I don't know what I'll do with it. If I could dunk it in a drum of diesel for six months, I would.
It might just be sprayed with wax and pallet wrapped, and "lost".
Still, better that than melted down.
I wonder why it was dumped.
Coat every thing, then blast as much cavity wax in there as you can, I like bilt hambler(?) aerosols, Dynax 50, is good.
Landrover have the panel a quick breathe of primer, then an economic whiff of top coat.
The family went for a walk in the forest to see the bluebells on the last back holiday weekend.
Lovely.
I found a series engine.
So, having followed the correct procedure, I've brought it home.
It's scrap, but I might some useful bits from it.
Not exactly what you want, but if you cut the panel in half, you could squeeze a d din panel in, possibly?https://www.bits4landys.co.uk/series/dash/switch-panels.htm
It's not difficult, IF the software and hardware for the car systems is available.
But, unless they outsourced the manufacturing of the diagnostic box to China, this is usually difficult or impossible to get.
So the owner is fighting uphill to service their own kit.
It's all right, think how the Austin mini evolved into the BMW mini.
This looks like a Peugeot defender.
It will meet the emissions regs, drive like a car, pull a trailer, cope with trails.
And last as long as the warranty.
Job done, I'd say.
I think the next job will be to make some wheel spacers.
The disks on the lightweight are thicker than the drums, so the rear wheels are a few mm further inboard than the front.
I think I'll turn down some old drums to shim the wheels out. A few mm. I've already got longer studs, so it will be fine.