What did you do to your Rover today?

[vkjar]

Kicked it. Towed it. Then slept in it. Ever see a 6'2" guy try and curl up on the bench seat of a 2a.

[TJR]

Shortend my original frame with the sawzall, Left the 4 pieces at the end of my driveway as "FREE scrap steel", Gone in 3 hrs





..Talbot

[SafeAirOne]

Shortend my original frame with the sawzall, Left the 4 pieces at the end of my driveway as "FREE scrap steel", Gone in 3 hrs

You know...

...the sad thing about looking at those pics is that the chassis you cut up looks like it is in better shape than some parts of my current chassis.

[TJR]

Yeah..I've seen many much worse...It was weak and rusted through in many areas, though not totally rotted. Ive seen articles in LRO mag making worse frames slook good again.. I had no time or desire to restore that one. It would have needed considerable plating to restore the weak areas and new rear x-member

[TJR]

I finally got some paint work done on my 2.2L block...
POR-15 base, and POR 15 Engine Enamel "Austin Healey Green"

I know it's not original, but I like it 100% more than the pastel green. I saw a pic of Ike;s engine in this color a while back and I was sold. I've go enough paint left over to find some other things to paint with it :-)

Here's some before, after, and a few "along the way" pics... Talbot

Pulled out








Back from the shop

[TJR]

Part 2 ... I finally got some paint work done on my 2.2L block...
POR-15 base, and POR 15 Engine Enamel "Austin Healey Green"

I know it's not original, but I like it 100% more than the pastel green. I saw a pic of Ike;s engine in this color a while back and I was sold. I've go enough paint left over to find some other things to paint with it :-)

Here's some before, after, and a few "along the way" pics... Talbot

Continued ,,,,

[SafeAirOne]

Looking good Talbot...

Interesting, the similarities between the 2.25 and the 2.5...

It took me a while to figure out that all the bits in this photo aren't ENGINE parts:

[73series88]

hella off road lights on the rack

ok started placing some hellla 500 and 500ff lights up on the rack.
hopefully i can get a set of 550s for the bumper in a few weeks
aaron

[Terrys]

ok started placing some hellla 500 and 500ff lights up on the rack.
hopefully i can get a set of 550s for the bumper in a few weeks
aaron

Six 55 watt Halogens is going to put a strain on your alternator. I hope you're using relays and running the hots to the battery.

[bkreutz]

This isn't today, it's actually the finish of a job I started Saturday. I cut the snowplow mount off, amazing that 20 minutes with a stick welder can turn into 3 days with grinders to reverse the process. Pretty beefy mount.

[SafeAirOne]

Installed brand new crankshaft timing belt pulley to replace the damaged one, installed the new tensioner and new timing belt, timed camshaft and injector pump to the crankshaft:





Then I installed the oil sump and cylinder head that I painted yesterday, installed the lifters, rocker shaft assembly and gapped the rocker arms. Finally I attached the gasket to the valve cover and installed that too. I'd like to have finished up everything today. I wish I could get more than an hour or two at a time so I can wrap this up!!

[gudjeon]

Put ser2 door latch assemblies on my ser1. These ser1 door latches are very NLA and now I can lock up with a normal lock and key, not a padlock.

[martindktm]

Sunday I did start to remove stuff from the interior.



And today I did install the stering relay in the new chassis. Load of anti-seize whent there...And I did sealed the upper part to keep sand, mud and water from getting in-between the chassis tube and relay. So I will tell you in 35 years from now if its seize again and if it will be easy to remove.

[SafeAirOne]

Martin--What's that plate with the tow ball on the front of the new chassis? A towbar attach point?

[masonater]

took the bulkhead off so now its just frame and then it hit me that i have to put it all back together..