It is soooo nice to see someone cutting out and replacing. I use to work for a Landy specialist and the amount of stuff we had come in that had been patched over was unreal... and then I found an article in Land Rover Monthly promoting a business selling ready made parts that are oversized to just slide over the rusty stuff
It takes a bit longer to do it properly but the repair lasts much better. You can see why commercial garages often repair that way as customers want it "fixed quick n cheap" but it costs in the long run as the rot comes through the patch in no time.
Your a good bloke for putting that amount of love into a old motor. Pishes me off, throwing away good vans/cars etc because they are older than a few years...crazy consumer based stupidity!!
Loved reading your thread. Spent a hour and don't regret it
I have a minor project compared to your skeletal tranny...lol!
Mine is a old fiesta courier combi estate 1.8d on a x plate.
Proper strange thing. Never seen one before . The raw power(not) of none turbo seduced me....
Grande job..bl76dy hell how do you stay motivated working outside???Do tell!
Mine is going to get welded up in the road...terraced house, the joys...lol
Only ones I've seen had a wheelchair conversion like a Popemobile, looked like you were parading the disabled person around like the village idiot in the stocks!
How do I stay motivated? The prospect of not being able to deliver gas to customers we fought hard to get and keep and letting them go because we had no suitable transportation was the choice we faced. Things are better now, the money is there for newer vehicles etc. but in a perverse way it was kind of satisfying afterwards, looking back, in the warm fuzzy embrace of hindsight, but not an experience I'd be keen to repeat. In a nice warm shop though, with a ramp, that's another story...