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The truck is moving along nicely.
At this rate mine might be back on the road before yours...
The truck is moving along nicely.
Funnily enough the fosters over here doesn't taste the same as the fosters back home...here it's brewed in Canada under license of some other company... It does make a decent shandy though...
So I started with the reassembly of bulkhead components, now I've had some experience with trying to resolve water ingress on one of the larger Land Rover restoration companies product, so on this build I am going to try and stop/limit the amount of water that gets into the truck as well as try to eliminate areas where water sits and rust festers.... If you know Land Rover defenders both of those are no small undertaking..
Steering column and associated brackets were sanded and treated and then painted and installed..the upper mounting bracket where it mounts to the firewall has some factory holes where water can get in if it splashes up there or overflows past the sealing strip where the hood (bonnet) meets..you'd be surprised how much water flows backwards off the hood in a torrential downpour..
So after the upper bracket was installed all the mating areas and holes were sealed with strip caulk..holes can be seen top right of pic..
At this rate mine might be back on the road before yours...
Truck broke down July 17th.
Made it to Dealership on the 28th.
Got an email from them Monday that the main fuse was blown, and they had...wait for it...ordered one. A $4.95 fuse link has to be ordered so they can either a) immediately blow it, or b) get the truck fired up and connect to diagnostics.
Why don't we just trade? 1 Puma with Lucas inspired electrics...
Who the hell is Johnny Grant..??...gonna have to look that one up..... What's that make it now..3..?? Or did you sell the one back here... I think I'm down to 10 trucks right now...(may go UP at any given time..)... Looks like a cool truck, we may have to reevaluate your poseur status...maybe.....
So while I had the fenders apart painting them I added a bit of generic sound deadening that I had laying around.. Then it was primer sealed and will be painted over...this just reduces a bit of the tinny reverberation on the panels