Seems there's a few Landy owners on here so thought I might tart mine shamelessly around...
This is my first one, a Lightweight. Or at least, an S2a built onto a 64 chassis, with I think a civvy tub and tailgate. Not one for rivet counters.
The current, wildly optimistic idea, was to MOT the sucker without roof/sides and door tops, no seatbelts. I can use it for the work commute that way. Then crack on with the cage, seatbelts, hardtop etc as we go along. Time and cash are very short supply though.
As arrived it had a truck cab, windows fitted badly. Saloon seats with 2 tacks onto vertical 1mm DIY steel - very wobbly. Rotten seatbox, tops a lash up of 7 sheets overlapping etc. Missing handbrake/relay stuff. Props loose. Door tops beaten with a hammer in an attempt to make them fit the truck cab.
It ran but sounded like Satan ordering breakfast ... Holed exhaust and belching great black clouds. Rebuilt the carb, and after a while it ran a whole lot less smokey so maybe the motor is saveable.
Stripped/re-assembled the dead heater motor together, which now runs.
The throttle linkage was hopeless, fouled the bulkhead & heater hoses, and was trying to chop a clutch hard line. So I re-made that with a new rod, stepped to clear the heater hoses, and some spacers and stuff from some of the tat boxes.
Did a fair bit of chassis welding. All fairly dull and the usual stuff. Removed a bucket full of mud and gack from inside the rails. Someone'd 'repaired' the dumb-irons with 1.2mm and missed whole seams.
Scraped off the underseal, paint, etc and 2k epoxy primer'd and painted the chassis, still a bit to do though.
Removed the props, transbrake stuff and g'box x-member. I'll have to figure out the transbrake later, stuff is missing and it didn't work.
Handbrake relay pivot was shot, so made another using the pivot shaft end from it.
Sorted the front output housing/stuck shafts resulting in difflock that wouldn't stay down.
Various things got stripped back, epoxy primer, and 2k black'd either gloss or matt - heater, motor, air cleaner stuff, transbrake.
Gbox cross member painted, poured paint inside and swilled it too.
Fuel tank stripped, primered and satin synth-enamelled.
Seatbox tops and seats were chucked. Seatbox sides were a mess.
Since the box itself so weak and some of the capping angle shot, I decided to make a steel frame (pic of it in progress). The front angle sits flush on the vertical, so a vee was needed. Lwt seatboxes are vertical fronted. Frame, part-done:
So I'm making seatbox sides, tops, seatbox frame, seat frames and the seats. One seatbox top, folded and pilot-drilled:
This is my first one, a Lightweight. Or at least, an S2a built onto a 64 chassis, with I think a civvy tub and tailgate. Not one for rivet counters.
The current, wildly optimistic idea, was to MOT the sucker without roof/sides and door tops, no seatbelts. I can use it for the work commute that way. Then crack on with the cage, seatbelts, hardtop etc as we go along. Time and cash are very short supply though.
As arrived it had a truck cab, windows fitted badly. Saloon seats with 2 tacks onto vertical 1mm DIY steel - very wobbly. Rotten seatbox, tops a lash up of 7 sheets overlapping etc. Missing handbrake/relay stuff. Props loose. Door tops beaten with a hammer in an attempt to make them fit the truck cab.
It ran but sounded like Satan ordering breakfast ... Holed exhaust and belching great black clouds. Rebuilt the carb, and after a while it ran a whole lot less smokey so maybe the motor is saveable.
Stripped/re-assembled the dead heater motor together, which now runs.
The throttle linkage was hopeless, fouled the bulkhead & heater hoses, and was trying to chop a clutch hard line. So I re-made that with a new rod, stepped to clear the heater hoses, and some spacers and stuff from some of the tat boxes.
Did a fair bit of chassis welding. All fairly dull and the usual stuff. Removed a bucket full of mud and gack from inside the rails. Someone'd 'repaired' the dumb-irons with 1.2mm and missed whole seams.
Scraped off the underseal, paint, etc and 2k epoxy primer'd and painted the chassis, still a bit to do though.
Removed the props, transbrake stuff and g'box x-member. I'll have to figure out the transbrake later, stuff is missing and it didn't work.
Handbrake relay pivot was shot, so made another using the pivot shaft end from it.
Sorted the front output housing/stuck shafts resulting in difflock that wouldn't stay down.
Various things got stripped back, epoxy primer, and 2k black'd either gloss or matt - heater, motor, air cleaner stuff, transbrake.
Gbox cross member painted, poured paint inside and swilled it too.
Fuel tank stripped, primered and satin synth-enamelled.
Seatbox tops and seats were chucked. Seatbox sides were a mess.
Since the box itself so weak and some of the capping angle shot, I decided to make a steel frame (pic of it in progress). The front angle sits flush on the vertical, so a vee was needed. Lwt seatboxes are vertical fronted. Frame, part-done:
So I'm making seatbox sides, tops, seatbox frame, seat frames and the seats. One seatbox top, folded and pilot-drilled: