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« Reply #7125 on: February 17, 2014, 09:49:33 PM » |
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Looking good wet cat. Can,t wait to have another trip out somewhere.
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« Reply #7126 on: February 17, 2014, 10:20:37 PM » |
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love them visors.
i've never had it to lose!!!!! lol
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« Reply #7127 on: February 17, 2014, 10:28:27 PM » |
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 Like a lot of parts on this vehicle, the visors are the 2nd or 3rd version. I started with one vintage one which mounted on a single bracket in the corner. I had a piece of red perspex cut for it cos the paint scheme was going to be black with red detailing. Then we reverted to the original plan of pale green paint with black detailing, so I had another visor cut in green. Eventually I discovered the vintage bracket made the visor hang too low -so I binned the whole thing & bought these. Loony kept the old red & green visors & says he's gonna fit them in his Rover Rod -like a giant pair of 3D glasses. 
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« Reply #7128 on: February 20, 2014, 09:25:14 PM » |
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Mr Loon's been busy with a couple of rush jobs for the last few days & I need some welding done to continue with the roof. So I've been busying myself this afternoon with unbolting part of the gearbox tunnel & cleaning it up before I take it to Phil the upholsterer to be covered in black vinyl. I've also started mocking up a housing for the new dashboard switches. This will be welded to the top of the gearbox tunnel, with a removable face plate for access to the wiring. The old switches were cheap plastic Lucas toggle ones. Two of them fell apart last Summer, which meant dismantling all the panels under the dash to reach them. What idiot designed this thing!  The new switches are more substantial American chrome push/pull knobs to match the choke & vent ones above them. |
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« Reply #7129 on: February 21, 2014, 07:09:20 PM » |
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My day off today, so I was in Cannock, Staffordshire by 11.0.clock this morning. Bought 2 Landrover Defender windscreens from John Craddocks, the Landrover/RangeRover specialists. The one in the Pop's a cut down Landie one, donated by Mr Spanners, but it got a stone chip, right in front of the driver, during the Summer, so needs replacing. The cheapest I found on Ebay was 130 quid plus delivery. I bought 2 from Craddocks for 84 the pair. Even adding the 20 quid's worth of fuel I used to drive there & back, that's still cheaper than one Ebay one.
I took them straight to the glazier in Basingstoke, who put them somewhere safe till I take the old one out over the weekend to use as a template. I'll get a new rear window cut from the other Landie screen at the same time.
The new Perspex sun visors arrived in the post today. Oh, & when I got back to Loony's workshop, I covered a couple of the Pop floor panels in Dynamat heat/sound insulation, ready to take to the upholsterer next week. Not much progress to show, but lots of errands run.
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« Reply #7130 on: February 22, 2014, 09:44:37 PM » |
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Another day, another parts trip. This time it was down to Poole/Bournemouth after work this afternoon to collect a pair of 1970s 16" taxi cab wheels I bought from Ebay. £41 for the pair.
We've been told a couple of times over the Summer that one of the rear wheels wobbles. Can't feel it when we're driving & I wondered whether it was just the crossply sidewalls flexing, but people said no, it's definitely the rim. So I grabbed some spares when they came up -first ones I've seen for sale since I bought the ones on the truck.
Martin, the guy selling them, turned out to be building a fibreglass bodied Willys pick-up gasser with a blown Rover engine -you never know what's tucked away in the most innocent looking garages.
He also directed me to a local spares shop around the corner where I bought a new choke cable. Running out of storage space so I'm now driving round with half my Pop in pieces in the back of my little Fiesta!
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« Reply #7131 on: February 22, 2014, 10:55:41 PM » |
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You must be really racking up the miles on that poor little Fiesta!
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« Reply #7132 on: February 23, 2014, 10:21:29 AM » |
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« Reply #7133 on: February 24, 2014, 06:51:02 PM » |
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Front & rear screens taken out & over to the glazier as templates for the new ones. We managed to bust the front screen getting it out, so now it's definitely being replaced!
Also nipped over to Newbury in Berkshire to drop the Dynamatted panels off with Phil the upholsterer.
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« Reply #7134 on: February 25, 2014, 07:03:38 PM » |
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Another afternoon of running about today. Picked up the 2 cut down Landrover screens from the glazier. 20 quid each. So with the purchase cost of 42 quid, they've cost £62, which ain't bad for a custom screen. I may have to replace the rear window rubber though, cos the previous glass was much thinner than the 6mm new one. Carefully bubble wrapped & put to one side till we're ready to get back on the road.
Took the 2 taxi wheels to a local tyre depot, where they spun them on their balancing machine for me, to check they spin true -no point doing any more with them if they're more buckled than the ones I've already got. Seemed fine, so they pulled the tyres off for me too. 5 quid.
The front wheels have dust caps in the centres. I picked them up from a trailer shop & they're purely for show, just to fill the big hole in the wheel centre. They're tack welded in place. Bought a pair of caps for the rear wheels too, but they never got fitted. So Mr Loon tacked them into the new wheels this afternoon.
Then I dashed over to the powder-coaters in Newbury. Got there with 2 minutes to spare before they shut for the day & dropped off the rear wheels, plus a handful of other parts, to be blasted & coated gloss black. Should be ready early next week.
This morning I rang Speedy Cables in Wales to check on progress on my speedo recalibration. They told me they had a 4 or 5 week backlog of work & it's now been 6 weeks since I gave them my gauge. The girl on the phone took my number & said she'd check & get back to me. Haven't heard from them since.
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« Reply #7135 on: February 25, 2014, 07:24:54 PM » |
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Have the quoted you already for the speedo Andy?
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« Reply #7136 on: February 25, 2014, 07:55:36 PM » |
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Nope. I've had cables made by them in the past, so I know they're not cheap, but if they do a good job I'm happy to pay -I'd just like them to actually do the job!
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« Reply #7137 on: February 25, 2014, 08:07:50 PM » |
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They told me they had a 4 or 5 week backlog of work & it's now been 6 weeks since I gave them my gauge. The girl on the phone took my number & said she'd check & get back to me. Haven't heard from them since.
Perhaps the girl on the phone has a 4 or 5 week backlog of calls to make.  Was this 4 or 5 weeks to do the work, or 4 to 5 weeks to give a quote? |
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« Reply #7138 on: February 25, 2014, 08:12:16 PM » |
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To give a quote.
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« Reply #7139 on: February 25, 2014, 08:39:37 PM » |
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Sounds like you need to find somewhere else!
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