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.

[cedryck]

Brent,

I did that to my Corvair this past year. A backfire, caused by points that were too close together, leading to unburned fuel in the cylinders and then in the exhaust, blew out the muffler and the short pipe. It was quite an explosion!

Jeff

I have had that happen to me my canister split at the seam.

[tmckeon88]

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.

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I also did a SPH rebuild on my '69 IIA. The driver's side has had a wobbly wheel for what seems like years- it made getting inspection stickers a matter of pleading with mechanics that it wasn't that serious. I finally tore into it and got a new kingpin driven into my existing steering arm. This has old steering arms which sit on top of the housings. A new swivel ball, bearings, seals and sundries. Very satisfying to feel that front wheel now sitting as solid as a rock. I also made the acquaintance of a local garage that has a press and will do bearings and so forth essentially for free.

I have a set of the leather gaiters on order- what are people's opinions on those? I had an old set on there and the balls under them were pitted and rusty; are they actually causing more damage than they are preventing?

Tom

[cedryck]

Using truck to move rocks that are going to be used to rebuild a stone wall on my property, back of my 88 can hold 8-10 large stones, and 20-30 smaller stones

[LaneRover]

Changed the hydraulic parts of the clutch system and boy did it need it. Though the fluid up on top of the reservoir looked nice and clean there was quite a bit of sludge at the bottom. I also took a chunk of some seal out of the master cylinder reservoir . . . not quite sure how it got in there!
The sludge at the bottom
The solid piece of whatever . . . maybe it was trying to make a new seal . . .
What the fluid near the bottom looked like eeewwwwwww!

[Les Parker]

Ref the gaiters, depends on where you are. In the salt belt, if they get torn they retain all that nasty stuff and it festers away. Though, if they are looked after and kept supple with dubbin or leather softener, they can keep the corrosive stuff at bay. Long and short, yes - a good idea but need to be attended to (along with all the other items -topping up, adjusting, cleaning etc).