Got My Lightweight!! Stay Tuned for Project Updates and Plenty of Questions!

[jac04]

Well, I lopped off the back half of the chassis to free up some garage space. It's amazing how quickly a 36' x 36' garage fills up with stuff.

By the way, my old springs are in fairly decent shape - if anyone needs a set for cheap, please let me know. Also, I'll eventually be getting rid of the set of 5 wheels & tires. The tires are 235/85/16 General Grabber AT II that are practically new. The spare has never touched the ground, but I think that the wheel is bent judging from the amount of balancing weight on it.

Half a Rover (Well, maybe it's more like 1/3):


Checking a few critical dimensions:


Finally, a few things actually put back together (even if only temporarily, it makes me feel like I'm making progress):

[rwollschlager]

are you still looking to get rid of the general grabbers? would the rims come with them?

[jac04]

^ Yes, and Yes. Send me a PM if you are interested.

[jac04]

... a few more parts taken off... I just ordered a bench top sandblast cabinet, so I will be starting restoration of all those small rusty pieces fairly soon. For the big stuff, I will wait until spring and use my regular sandblaster in my outside makeshift 'booth'.

[jac04]

The bulkhead coming off:

Not much left. Hopefully I can find some time to pull the engine & trans tomorrow:

[jac04]

I had a few more hours to work on the tear-down.

Here is the engine & transmission coming up....


... and out.....


...and into its new home, which is on 6 swivel casters to make it easy to move around the garage...




Almost gone:

[telwyn]

Great buy! I'm new to this forum (never noticed it before on RoversNorth), but glad I found it. Heck of a project you have going. Look forward to following your progress.

Lots of Rover folks over on www.ExpeditionPortal.com with a great forum there as well you may want to poke around.

I have a 1982 Land Rover Lightweight - here's a site with my pics and modifications. Lots of ongoing work as well.

http://web.mac.com/eelwyn/Pokey/Home_Page.html

Good luck!

[jac04]

The front axle ass'y out from under the old chassis:

A little surgery required to get the steering relay out of the chassis:

The old rusty chassis finally out of my garage:

Now, the long, tedious task of restoring every little piece and slowly re-building this vehicle from the frame up.

[SafeAirOne]

Hmmm.....You've been working on this for what....a month or month-and-a-half now and you've disassembled a lightweight so that there's no original part left that's bigger than a bread box. You've ordered and received tons of new parts. I'm presuming that you've gone to your regular job during this period...

I'm really curious--how the heck did you find the time to put up Christmas lights on your house?

[jac04]

I'm presuming that you've gone to your regular job during this period...

I knew I was forgetting something!!

In reality, most of my time spent working on the Rover is between 8:30pm and 1am. We have a 3-year-old daughter and a 2.5-month-old son, so that's the only time I have.