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8 days ago
Quick note in the middle of the “story so far” – I dropped the tailgate off at the Paint Shop today and they are hoping to have it finished within a couple of days ready for collection at the end of the week. Although the rest of the bodywork is nowhere near ready, I decided to get the tailgate done in advance so I can make sure I like the paint scheme I’ve gone for – it would be a very expensive change if I had the entire body done and then decided I didn’t like it! I’ll fill in the details of how I got the tailgate ready later on, but for now I’ll get back to the correct place in the timeline and pick up where I left off with the last post.
12 days ago
Yet again MANY weeks have gone past and despite promising (myself really, lets be honest) many times, I just haven’t got of my arse and written up where I’m up to. Actually, between Ethan's 3rd birthday, business suddenly getting crazily busy (not going to complain given the economy at the moment) and about 200 other flimsy excuses I just haven’t had the time to write up. In the last post I was planning to get out and start breaking the donor down, and for once I was actually able to do exactly that on the Sunday. 3 or 4 hours work saw pretty much the entire of the rear interior removed. The main rear seats came out really easily (4 bolts) and the carpet was quite easily removed once I removed the plastic trim that holds it down at the back. The hardest thing by a long way was removing the 2 ‘dickie’ seats right at the back as the brackets are held on by torx bolts that are tucked right in against the side panel of the car making it damn near impossible to undo them with a ...
83 days ago
Well it’s been a few weeks and there have some pretty good things happen since last time. The main one being my birthday – and Ellie bought me a whole host of top notch tools ready to get started on the car! I’m now the proud owner of an Impact wrench, angle grinder, Dremel multi-tool and most of all……a superb air compressor to drive air powered tools! Doesn’t get much more manly that that !!! The next cool thing was that this morning (well, this evening after I got home from work actually) I got a letter from Nick who’s the chap building the main kit car body with some pictures of the body mocked up showing the modifications – and it looks absolutely brilliant so really pleased with that. I’m going to give him a call tomorrow to confirm and that (hopefully!) will be the end of me messing him about and he can get it all finished and delivered :) With that in mind, the next step is for me start stripping the donor car down and that should hopefully be Sunday as Ellie is taking ...
95 days ago
I had some good news yesterday – the Discovery passed it’s MOT test and is now fully road legal. It needed a couple of new brake pipes and a new brake servo but other that than it was all pretty straight forward. This morning I therefore drove it to the Post Office and got myself a nice shiny new Tax disc for the princely sum of AAAAHHHH £s. Yes it was little pricey, but it turns out a 4 litre V8 isn’t in the cheapest tax band! A lot of people will be wondering why I bothered getting it tested and back on the road if I’m only going to start taking it apart in the near future in preparation for the new bodywork arriving. The answer is twofold. Firstly: I now know that the basic vehicle is mechanically safe and road legal (as far as an MOT covers). There’s not much point spending the next 6 months building it only to find out at the end that the chassis/axles etc. should have been set alight and floated out to sea on a Viking burial longboat Secondly: I can spend the next 2 ...
95 days ago
A: They are all CD’s I found today inside the CD multi-changer that I didn’t even know was under the drivers seat the Discovery I bought last week! The previous owner had removed the original Land Rover stereo and replaced it with a much nicer modern Radio/CD Player so it never even crossed my mind to see if there was a multi-changer in the car, but during my lunch break today I was trying to work out why the drivers seat doesn’t go up and down and while looking underneath suddenly realised that there it was, staring me in the face. Because the original radio had been removed, it wouldn’t eject the cartridge so I wondered into the office to grab a screwdriver and socket set to remove the whole unit. Obviously because nothing is ever easy (particularly on a Land Rover) it didn’t come straight out. Normally it’s a really easy job as you just slide the seat to reveal the bolts and then you can whip it out. Did I mention the seat is stuck and can’t be moved? Therefore I had to ...
