Land Rover repairs

[rosinante]

Viscous

IIRC it may be a L/H thread,I removed my viscous fan by undoing the 4 small bolts holding it together,I think then it is easier to get a spanner on HTH
its been awhile since I did it,HTH
Chris

 

[Robotstar5]

Thanks for the ideas for removing nut, as I have to work on the drive, the tarpaulin will not be coming off until the weather improves!

 

[pete3000]

The problem is stopping the drive pulley turning while undoing the nut, tightened the belt to near breaking point but still slips (not even sure if it's a R/H thread!).

Viscous fan nut is a LH thread, use a 32mm cranked vicous fan spanner and tap it with a mallet, looking from front it's got to go left to right to loosen.

spent ages tightening minetill i realised.

sealey, do a viscous fan spanner for £7 IIRC. get them from car spares branches in Birmingham.

Pete

 

[Robotstar5]

sealey, do a viscous fan spanner for £7 IIRC. get them from car spares branches in Birmingham

Thanks for reminding me, I got one from the stores and "cranked" it to do the fan on my 90 TD many years ago.

 

[cjbp]

cjbp

I was going to use ready made panels, but couldn't really afford them, this was half the price by buying steel, and it's thicker. And i've got loads left over! I bought two 4'x2' sheets of 1.2mm, and only partly used one of them.

I've not seen front panel repair panels. Shouldn't be too hard. The rolled edge on straight bits could be made from sheet folded first then welded in as I did with the angle iron. The rolled edge on the corners could be made with thin strips of steel bent around a piece of tube then welded on separately.

The engine is a 2.25 petrol, 8.8:1 compression ratio head (specially machined for me), ported, 3 angle valve seats, twin choke weber carb, LPG conversion.

My project came with the bulkhead panels already fitted.. Don't know where they came from but they are utter ****e. Would be nice to make them out of stainless as they are prone to rotting through.

Good luck with tuning the engine. I picked up a forg granada 24v, took the BOA cossie engine out and put it into mine. Just got the exhaust left to sort out. Some 205 bhp (hopefully a bit more with a tubular manifold and 4" pipe) through the standard box so don't know how long its going to last!

The original vehicle would do 0-60 in 7 seconds through an autobox, in nearly 2 tonne of car, so it should be plenty powerful as my daily driver.

 

[lexi]

Been thinking of the stainless footwells too. I have lump of 14 or 16g. Lets face it you cannot keep paint on where your feet are anyway.

Keep up the work.

 

[Endacy]

Been a while! The camera was never near me when I was doing the work, the work on this has taken just forever. But it's 95% back in one piece now. It's had a resprayed wing, front panel, bonnet, footwell and bulkhead front. I made a new switch panel for the cab, rewired almost all of it and took out a lot of extra wiring that was redundant. New clutch pedal off a TD5, new pipes...

The list goes on! Lots of new fixings etc. too.

I also made a nice aluminium box for the LPG tank. It's ALL aluminium, even ali bolts (from an old conservatory). Strong enough to stand on, mostly chequer plate and thick ali angle.

Here are some pics.