What did you do to your Rover today?

[siii8873]

working on replacing the front SPH balls, bearings and seals on my 54" and converting to a railco bush assembly. Completed disassembly of the front right axle. This truck has the older style tracta joint assembly. Removal of the bearing retainer is a real PITA.

[kenscs]

Cleaned up a bunch of Door Hinge bolts I took off so I could strip and repaint my driver-side door.

Man that Vibrator bowl and cleaning Media works! My bolts alway come out like new. Use the Harbor Freight Vibrator and their Green Rust Cutting Resin Tumbler Media. Make sure you use water in the bowl with media. Dissipates the heat I think. Then spray right away with WD-40 or you will get flash rust issues. I usually need about 12 hours in the Vibrator to get them perfect and threads cleaned out and head markings nicely outlined. In this case, I found a mysterious groove in the nut I am not quite sure what it is for. I posted a separate thread about this. I did find a reference online to a machinist who puts in a "whimsical" groove in is nuts for decoration. In this case, I think it is to have a place for the spilt-lock washer rest in.




Nice and shiny!

[LaneRover]

Loaded up my Station Wagon with Insulation. Only needed 10 bags of it but if you buy 15 the price goes from $42 a bundle to about $33 a bundle . . . and I'll be needing more soon.
If you have a roof rack and a hitch carrier you can just get 15 bundles on a 109 Station Wagon. The guys at Home Depot really liked the truck too!

I wouldn't recommend putting that much on the roof if you had to drive a trail to get to a work site . . .

[Skookumchuck]

got the turbo and intake manifold installed now just need to sort out the alternator, rad and inter-cooler. Long time not having Red Rover here but it feels good to have her back at home.

[DGG]

Finished restoring the roof and doing the headliner.

[cedryck]

Went to start truck on very hot day (90+ degrees), truck not start, hit starter with breaker bar, truck starts.

[clearcut]

HI Doug

Nice head liner. Where did you find it?

thanks

[DGG]

I made it myself. I used some 1/8 self adhesive sound deadening foam that I stuck to the metal roof, and then glued headliner material to that.

[DGG]

Sorry the pictures are sideways. I don't know why they are like that.

[printjunky]

Well, past few days, really.