What did you do to your Rover today?

[JackIIA]

FRIDAY: Registered the Rover --$27.00. Started the rebuilt engine for the first time ever. Filled the neighborhood with white smoke--Advanced the injector pump timing to make the neighborhood smoke free. Slept for 12 hours as a result of Thursday.

Sounds like a little pain along the way but....REGISTERED!!!!! CONGRATS.

[SafeAirOne]

Sounds like a little pain along the way but....REGISTERED!!!!! CONGRATS.

Thanks--It's hard to get excited about registering your daily-driver Series Rover. Passing the annual state safety inspection, however, is always exhilarating. In another 3 years it'll be biennial (every 2 years) safety inspections for me!!

[amcordo]

Thanks--It's hard to get excited about registering your daily-driver Series Rover. Passing the annual state safety inspection, however, is always exhilarating. In another 3 years it'll be biennial (every 2 years) safety inspections for me!!

Question: how do you even pass any level of safety inspection in any Series?

[SafeAirOne]

Question: how do you even pass any level of safety inspection in any Series?

My lawyer advises that I excercise my constitutional rights and decline answering that question...

[Jim-ME]

Mark,
Glad to hear that you are up an running. Congrats. I got a new injector pump installed today plus new bits to hook up a hand throttle. Had a great day.
Jim

[SafeAirOne]

Mark,
I got a new injector pump installed today plus new bits to hook up a hand throttle. Had a great day.
Jim

Thanks Jim--I put 100 miles on the engine yesterday and another 100 today breaking it in. Only got stopped once for not having a current inspection sticker.


It sounds like you had a great day!--Have you driven it with the new injector pump yet? Just curious if you notice any differences say, in acceleration or ease of starting or exhaust smelliness or...anything.

Are you going to start mixing in a little biodiesel now that you have a zero-time pump? I'm sure you've seen this lubricity test summarized on the GnR site a year or two ago. Very interesting (to me anyhow). Seems that a small amount of biodiesel is the best additive to replace the removed sulfur in modern diesel fuel, according to the test. Probably a subject for a new thread, though...

[Jim-ME]

I drove my truck from Eliot to Brewer which is about 185 miles. My new pump seems to have more power than the old leaky one but it could just be my imagination. I don't get the diesel smell in the cab anymore but that is probably just because fuel isn't dripping on everything. Unfortunately, I don't have a source of BioD and will continue to run Opti-Lube to make sure everything in the pump gets well lubricated. Thanks for the link. Looking forward to seeing you in July.
Jim

[NickDawson]

Started the winch install process. Found a $150 mount plate on Amazon that fit the frame horns perfectly. Got it all together and was cranking the bolts when the skies opened up. I'm looking forward to finishing tomorrow, realizing that one thing is wrong, taking it all apart and doing it again

[mongoswede]

started putting the new Autosparks harness into the 109 today.

[martindktm]

Removed some parts on the old chassis...I was at that point this morning...



And at the end of the day....



First was the gearbox



After that the engine followed. Would do a great boat anchor. The bastard was way more heavy than I thought...



After that was the bulkhead



And began to dismantle the gearbox for inspections.



So thats my day for now. I would have done more if I had someone to help me. I have done all this alone. Had to use some imagination to move the heavy stuff from outside to inside the garage.

Im now tired and taking a few beer...

Martin

[mrdoiron]

Removed some parts on the old chassis...I was at that point this morning...



And at the end of the day....



First was the gearbox



After that the engine followed. Would do a great boat anchor. The bastard was way more heavy than I thought...



After that was the bulkhead



And began to dismantle the gearbox for inspections.



So thats my day for now. I would have done more if I had someone to help me. I have done all this alone. Had to use some imagination to move the heavy stuff from outside to inside the garage.

Im now tired and taking a few beer...

Martin

Solid day !

cheers,

[SafeAirOne]

WOW. Martin's been busy.

I've been putting break-in mileage on my engine. 600 miles as of today. Installed new front turn signal socket to replace the rusted-out original, thus passed safety inspection this morning, so am legal for another year.

Note to others ordering new turn signal socket assemblies: Order a new bulb at the same time that you order the socket assembly, because you'll never find a #382 bulb locally! I ended up having to file one of the bayonet lugs off a standard 1057 bulb to get it to work in the socket (the 382 bulbs are single-filament bulbs with offset bayonet lugs).

Still aspiring to reply "nothing" to this "What did you [have to] do to your rover today?" thread.

[Jim-ME]

You should be totally all set for the trip in July. Can't wait!
Jim

[LaneRover]

martindktm, when I saw the 2nd pics with just the jack stands I was worried that someone had stolen your project!

[martindktm]

martindktm, when I saw the 2nd pics with just the jack stands I was worried that someone had stolen your project!

HAhaha!!