What did you do to your Rover today?

[morgant]

Spent the weekend POR-15'ing and priming my clutch pedal & tower. Could only track down white primer on such short notice. Man, that stuff is completely unforgiving... especially when brushing it on (and the clutch pedal tower is not the easiest thing to brush. It could use another coat of primer, but I'll probably go straight for the black paint since I really only need to get a good covering of the POR-15 (not that it'll get much UV under the bonnet).

A bit jealous of you guys w/spray guns & garages, but it was a beautiful weekend to be a shade tree mechanic.

Cleaned up the bulkhead, but didn't get to do prep or POR-15. I keep having to remind myself that I've just got to stop the rust and preserve as much metal as I can.

[superstator]

We recently moved, and for the first time in ten years I have a proper garage to work in. And today, I spent the first solid day in it working on the truck. Got all five doors & hinges off, all the seats but the drivers removed, and about half the trim down. Hopefully this weekend I can start in on the top, and I'll be down to a rolling chassis in no time. I've been looking forward to finally digging into this thing for years

On the downside, I noticed some rust holes behind the rear shackles while I was working on the rear door, which has me worried. Once the rest of the body is off I'll have to see if I'm looking at some time with a welder, or a whole new galvy frame. Up till now it's looked solid - not sure how I missed those spots before.

[badvibes]

On with her head!



The 88 in the background is the recipient.



This is the way all Rover mechanics "work" right?



3 easy pieces



Scott's Marshall called BULA. We got the head on and torqued to specs before Mother's Day festivities needed to be attended to. This head is one of the last/late casting so it has some metric threaded stuff. I need a metric threaded bolt for the oil return pipe and a metric threaded hose bib that I wasn't prepared for. So we didn't get her running today.

[westcoastkevin]

I got my tires mounted and balanced....... slowly progress comes my way.

[smukai]

I put in the earplugs and drove my Landy to the muffler shop this morning...no thanks to my brother for finding a way to remove my muffler up in the mountains.

[shawn88]

Finally put some paint on her!

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[LaneRover]

After a number of posts that started with 'I have this knock' that resulted in varying degrees of damage that had been done I finally decided to check out the knock I was getting in my '65 109.

Used the wood dowel trick to track down the noise. Thanks for the tip!

In the end it was just a tappet out of adjustment. Phew!! Using the dowel I was able to determine it was #3 so fixed that one first and then checked the rest. Now I get to drive it again without the worry that I am wrecking something!

Brent

[shawn88]

The seat box and sill channels put up a fight today, but with the help of a couple of ratchet straps, I was victorious!

[martindktm]

Bleed and adjust the brakes yesterday. New stuff all around.

[73series88]

limb risers
very inexpensive upgrade
looks cool
see everybody this weekend
aaron

[martindktm]

Took it out for a ride!

[LaneRover]

Used the dash as a bottle opener as I went to go grill some sausages

[Cutter]

Pulled the rear springs and replaced the chassis bushings, flipped the springs to correct a side to side tilt. It went well, but once I started on the front I discovered why people hate removing bushings. Good lord those are stuck in there. Going to try to rig up some c-clamps and press them out, I've already cut them in several spots but they are still held tight. Also touched up the paint on the wheels.

[albersj51]

Finished removing mine last month...PITA!!!

I burned out the rubber and used a sawzall to cut the outer sleave 90% of the way, then hacksawed by hand the rest. Using a thin flat blade a collapsed it. One it was bent in a little, I hammered them out with a ballpeen and the threaded portion of an old ball hitch (it was close by).

[Cutter]

yes, I saw your earlier post on melting the rubber out, which worked charms, and I have been using a sawzall as well. The smaller bushings in the back were no sweat, the ones in the actual box section of the frame are proving much tougher characters. It might be easier if I didn't have to work around the engine and driveline as I could collapse the inner edge, but I can't get at it well enough to swing a hammer. I may have to buy an air hammer, but I'm worried that might eat up the frame accidentally.

Oh and of course the PO didn't replace the bushings with poly as stated,. There is poly on the gas shocks, which once lubed eliminated almost all the squeaking I've been getting. I've been lubing the hell out of the ones I'm installing.