Land Rover 2.0

[flyingwil]

Well 2.0 has been around the block a few times now and I put together a slideshow of White D1 porn with some green thrown in for texture....

White Land Rover Porn

No kidding talk about porn!!! I have to go get a anoter roll of paper towel to wipe my drool off the keyboard.

Dude, I know I have told you this before, but I just love your photography style and skills!

 

[bovw]

Just have to know who to ask :elkgrin:

I thought he quit making them, could you ask pretty please for me...:drool:

 

[UnfrozenCaveman]

This is part of the tedious bit, drilling out all the previous holes and installing rivnuts.

Aha! That's the deal, eh?

Industrial velcro here we come

KAA

 

[clalor]

Sorry...

Life has gotten in the way of the write up for the designer/builder... He's been fully restoring a 1960's Sunbeam.

It's really very simple, just time consuming and tedious...

My only gripe about the Roxtar Fab rear door panels is that they are fastened with plastic pins that are prone to snapping. My door and Rob's door is is held on by 1/4 20 machine screws. This is part of the tedious bit, drilling out all the previous holes and installing rivnuts.

Sunbeams are cool. If he's still in Salt Lake, I'll have to watch for him and his car at one of the upcoming British Field Day car shows.

The Roxtar panels are a little thin for my liking. It might be overkill, but I don't think I'd be comfortable with an aluminum panel less than 0.093" (better 0.125"), or a stainless panel less than 0.063".

I was guessing that he used rivnuts to hold the panel to the door, but I wasn't sure. I like to make my mods as reversible as possible, so I'll have to pop the panel off of mine to see if I can't get away with an appropriately sized rivnut without having to drill out the holes. Between the size of the existing hole and the diameter reduction caused by the rivnut I'm not sure that's going to be possible. I'll be sure to start a new topic about it once I have an idea on how I'm going to proceed.

Thanks for the info.

 

[Antichrist]

I like to make my mods as reversible as possible, so I'll have to pop the panel off of mine to see if I can't get away with an appropriately sized rivnut without having to drill out the holes. Between the size of the existing hole and the diameter reduction caused by the rivnut I'm not sure that's going to be possible.

Assuming you're starting with a blank panel that you need to drill holes in, just offset the holes in it from the OEM holes by 3/4 - 1" and drill new holes in the door. If you decide to put the OEM panel back on at a later date then it will cover your new holes. Though, given how many fasteners there are, small ones in the existing holes would probably be enough.

 

[benlittle]

Nice Rob!!

I built one table and decided I wasn't happy with it.

I ended up getting a piece of 1/2in cutting board cut to size and some paint matched for the rear. I don't like the paint.

Sooo... I'm doing my second table now out of Stainless with another piece of cutting board. Not as sexy as the Olivares Birch but I think it works well.

 

[clalor]

Assuming you're starting with a blank panel that you need to drill holes in, just offset the holes in it from the OEM holes by 3/4 - 1" and drill new holes in the door. If you decide to put the OEM panel back on at a later date then it will cover your new holes. Though, given how many fasteners there are, small ones in the existing holes would probably be enough.

That's not a bad idea. I'm going to pull the interior panel off this weekend and start my planning.

 

[sinuhexavier]

It's been a while and I finally had some time to do some much needed upgrades. The 2 Meter I-Com was installed under the drivers side seat with the remote head mounted where the switches would be if I were unfortunate enough to have them. I used a Diamond Antenna NR770HB Dualband VHF/UHF Mobile Antenna in conjunction with a Diamond Antenna K540 Mobile Antenna Mount both from Expedition Exchange... Works really, really well and was an absolute breeze to install.

I also replaced my brake rotors with DBA's from Expedition Exchange. They allowed me to do the swap in their shop. Never having done a rotor swap, it was invaluable to have Ho and John's guidance. I also only used my field tool kit for the most part, I wrote down the few tools I was missing and found this to be a great way to fill in the missing bits and pieces of my field kit.

This is all in addition to the fuel pump and viscous fan clutch I replaced last week keeping me out of a flash flood ridden Southern Utah.

 

[Scott Brady]

I also only used my field tool kit for the most part, I wrote down the few tools I was missing and found this to be a great way to fill in the missing bits and pieces of my field kit.

Some good advice there!

I need to do the brakes on my Disco soon as well.

 

[Hank]

I'm surprised you did not do the D-90 caliper convert. Any reason why you did not?

 

[sinuhexavier]

15" rims are a tight squeeze...

Definitely thought about it...

 

[sinuhexavier]

I'm sorry 2.0, but I've met someone new...

Yeah... younger, faster and more colorful.

I mean of course I want to have my cake and eat it too...

We'll just call the 625 KTM SXC my mistress, concubine or sister wife, you'll always be my main squeeze.

 

[muskyman]

that is a very sweet girl...may I ride her some day?

 

[FourByLand]

Lovely.

But did you just post a cell phone pic?
:ylsmoke:

 

[muskyman]

Lovely.

But did you just post a cell phone pic?
:ylsmoke:

LOL I guess that people have become spoiled by your work...

A blurry shot like that from anyone else would be plenty good.