The wings’ preparation have taken longer than I anticipated to acheive a finish that I’m content with (ie. perfect), but they have now had all the corrosion trated and every defect smoothed, filled or beaten out. This took a lot of work on the front panels, where the previous owner had fitted mesh lamp guards. […]
Oil Cooler/Front Wings
The military oil cooler is now fully operational. Not cheap or easy, as all the pipework to match a SIII chassis and cooler to a 12J/19J had to be made up specially, but it worked a treat.The oil stat and feed line were installed yesterday as per the preceding post. Today, I fitted the return […]
Front Wings – Stripping
The right wing has had its top, front and inner stripped, and the left wing is mostly done (just half an hour’s work tomorrow to finish cleaning it up). The outers are being replaced with 90/110 wings that I collected today, which are thicker than Defender skins and will allow the use of the snorkel […]
Wings/Fuel Filter
Right. Got bored and started feeling guilty about having an easy day, so I finished off the last few nuts and bolts securing the wings and fitted the new fuel filter (still need to make up that other line and fit it where the redundant switch is standing in as a blanking plug to keep […]
Painting
I have stripped the Defender bonnet of its hinges, catches, buffers and noise blanket ready for painting. I recalled seeing the lightest of surface rust on the burrs of the frame edges when I bought it at Billing 18 montsh ago, and expected to find worse behind the original noise balnket (black pressed fibre type). […]
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