Hi Guys,
Been lurking here for ages (and admiring Area 52
but thought i'd better introduce myself.
I'm Mark otherwise known as Xenocide, I live near Trowbridge in Wiltshire and seem to be constantly covered in grease + EP90.
I've always wanted a Land Rover and years ago, there was a Lightweight parked not far from my home (it was a series 3 though). Since then i've always fancied one. Something about their angular body panels does it for me. About 7 years ago my uncle got a part restored Series one and slowly restored that. I loved riding in that, seeing the road go past the holes in the floor. Magical.
In October I went offroading with a friend of mine (Has a '64 Series 2) and my uncle in his Series 1. Two weeks later I was the proud owner of a Series 2 Lightweight bought off ebay for £1200 as a non runner.
The next 8 weekends I spent at my uncles house and we got her back on the road and MOT'd. I knew at the time I should take loads of photos but as you know if you've done something similar, It's just a pain in the
. Here's a few pictures.
Here she is with her old owner (and old plate). It looks like it's in primer, because, well it basically was.
She was made on March 21st (er I think - I can't find my heritage certificate at the moment) 1969 and was issued to training command at RAF Valley a year later in 1970 where she spent the rest of her life. Her military registration number was 99AA62. As she's an RAF wagon, the previous owner thought it should be bright yellow (which is correct). I thought it looked terrible though..
On the way home. You can see she's had a civilian cross member installed at some point and the bumperettes are just bolted to a bit of steel which is in turn bolted onto the x member. I've got a new military one to go on at some point. The roof, incase you're wondering, is non-original and would have been added after she was cast from the RAF (in '75). The colour she left the factory in would have been RAF grey (which is roughly what the roof is in these pictures).
Back home and the shocks and brakes are immediatly overhauled. The brakes were stuck on which made getting it on and off the trailer quite interesting. In the end we just pushed her up with the other Land Rover.
Starting to get some of the paint off to find out some of her history.
And a lick of paint. NATO green!
Don't question my methods of supporting it
.
The guy selling it (not the owner) said he managed to get it running. God knows how. All the fuel lines had holes in, the tank selector switch/valve was leaking + letting in air, the injectors were all shagged.
After renewing the whole fuel system, we couldn't get the bloody thing to run clean. It was beltching smoke the whole time so whipped the head off:
Result: concave valves, pitted rockers, bent pushrod and lateral slop on the pistons of about 2mm. So overhaul the engine or stick something else in?
I managed to get a defender engine (2.5N/A diesel) and wedged that in. Just needed to move one engine mount as the injector pump is in a different place and makes the block effectivly wider.
We borrowed a mates "engine crane" and took out the old one:
Like a woman's heart, it's empty.
Dave likes this...
... as he got to play with Bertha.
...and the plasma cutter (WHO DOESN'T?!)
Then he ate some cheese cake.
Changed the timing belt and put some new seals in and popped in the new one. We used an actual engine hoist this time.
Del likes this.
Then, annoyingly I lost a load of pictures somewhere so that's your lot.
Since then, it's had an MOT and I got to drive her for the first time on my birthday (December the 27th) and went and got it muddy.
Constant fiddling, fettling, a couple of break downs and alot of paint later. This is how she looks now:
And performing a vital role:
Hope you've enjoyed looking at these. If you've got any questions; please ask!
Edit: Oh yer and I rolled my MX5 recently! Oops!
Holy image size batmat: Linked this instead: xenocide.info/eunos/mxfucked/IMG_2157.JPG
Been lurking here for ages (and admiring Area 52
but thought i'd better introduce myself.I'm Mark otherwise known as Xenocide, I live near Trowbridge in Wiltshire and seem to be constantly covered in grease + EP90.
I've always wanted a Land Rover and years ago, there was a Lightweight parked not far from my home (it was a series 3 though). Since then i've always fancied one. Something about their angular body panels does it for me. About 7 years ago my uncle got a part restored Series one and slowly restored that. I loved riding in that, seeing the road go past the holes in the floor. Magical.
In October I went offroading with a friend of mine (Has a '64 Series 2) and my uncle in his Series 1. Two weeks later I was the proud owner of a Series 2 Lightweight bought off ebay for £1200 as a non runner.
The next 8 weekends I spent at my uncles house and we got her back on the road and MOT'd. I knew at the time I should take loads of photos but as you know if you've done something similar, It's just a pain in the
. Here's a few pictures.Here she is with her old owner (and old plate). It looks like it's in primer, because, well it basically was.
She was made on March 21st (er I think - I can't find my heritage certificate at the moment) 1969 and was issued to training command at RAF Valley a year later in 1970 where she spent the rest of her life. Her military registration number was 99AA62. As she's an RAF wagon, the previous owner thought it should be bright yellow (which is correct). I thought it looked terrible though..
On the way home. You can see she's had a civilian cross member installed at some point and the bumperettes are just bolted to a bit of steel which is in turn bolted onto the x member. I've got a new military one to go on at some point. The roof, incase you're wondering, is non-original and would have been added after she was cast from the RAF (in '75). The colour she left the factory in would have been RAF grey (which is roughly what the roof is in these pictures).
Back home and the shocks and brakes are immediatly overhauled. The brakes were stuck on which made getting it on and off the trailer quite interesting. In the end we just pushed her up with the other Land Rover.
Starting to get some of the paint off to find out some of her history.
And a lick of paint. NATO green!
Don't question my methods of supporting it
.The guy selling it (not the owner) said he managed to get it running. God knows how. All the fuel lines had holes in, the tank selector switch/valve was leaking + letting in air, the injectors were all shagged.
After renewing the whole fuel system, we couldn't get the bloody thing to run clean. It was beltching smoke the whole time so whipped the head off:
Result: concave valves, pitted rockers, bent pushrod and lateral slop on the pistons of about 2mm. So overhaul the engine or stick something else in?
I managed to get a defender engine (2.5N/A diesel) and wedged that in. Just needed to move one engine mount as the injector pump is in a different place and makes the block effectivly wider.
We borrowed a mates "engine crane" and took out the old one:
Like a woman's heart, it's empty.
Dave likes this...
... as he got to play with Bertha.
...and the plasma cutter (WHO DOESN'T?!)
Then he ate some cheese cake.
Changed the timing belt and put some new seals in and popped in the new one. We used an actual engine hoist this time.
Del likes this.
Then, annoyingly I lost a load of pictures somewhere so that's your lot.
Since then, it's had an MOT and I got to drive her for the first time on my birthday (December the 27th) and went and got it muddy.
Constant fiddling, fettling, a couple of break downs and alot of paint later. This is how she looks now:
And performing a vital role:
Hope you've enjoyed looking at these. If you've got any questions; please ask!
Edit: Oh yer and I rolled my MX5 recently! Oops!
Holy image size batmat: Linked this instead: xenocide.info/eunos/mxfucked/IMG_2157.JPG
Where's that, looks like Salisbury Plain but can't remember there being any there? Other than the ones flying about obviously!!
