What did you do to your Rover today?

[clearcut]

HI Doug

Nice head liner. Where did you find it?

thanks

[cedryck]

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

[DGG]

Finished restoring the roof and doing the headliner.

[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.

[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 . . .

[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!

[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.

[cedryck]

Washed gobs of mud out from underneath the chassis, took doggies for a joy ride, so they can hang their large triangle terrier heads out of the plentiful window bay with out door tops, so enjoyable,

[Opabob]

Finished up replacing clutch master cylinder, slave cylinder and hose.

[NC_Mule]

Set out to get a few hundred pounds of 78 gravel but ended up with 1,140lbs. Truck handled it great, I would have never guessed you could put over 1,000lbs in the bed. I bet it could have hauled 500lbs more.

[LaneRover]

Did you have to ck them with a flashlight?

That time no . . . a few days later . . .

[timc930]

I noticed that the headlights are working again!

Did you have to ck them with a flashlight?

[LaneRover]

Well, over the last few days I have been working on the clutch linkage on my '65. It had not been shifitng well since . . . well a LONG TIME. Some time late in the last millenium I remember needing to replace one of the pins in the cross shaft but not doing the other.

So I figured that I'd replace the other one.

Once you get the floorboards, transmission tunnel, front driveshaft and so on out of the way you only have to kind of limited access rather than nearly no access . . .

Getting a zip tie around the inner pin helps to keep you from losing it in the transmission's bellhousing.

The nice thing is that now with the pins replaced, the crossshaft greased up and tightened. it shifts like a dream, no more grinding into 1st, 2nd or reverse. Why didn't I do this years ago? Oi!

[LaneRover]

I noticed that the headlights are working again!

Yesterday I noticed they weren't - at dusk . . . more than an hour from home . . . details provided on the post 'Manual Headlight Relay"

[triumphtr7guy]

CLEANED the garage and all the accumulated "stuff" from under, in front of and on top off the Landy, next day or so, out of the garage, the TR7 in for head gasket, then the Landy back in and begin welding, looks good on paper anyway, chuckle chuckle