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| Nidge Member Since: 27 Jan 2008 Location: Kildare Ireland Posts: 817   
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Bulkhead all complete now with new painted windscreen and seal.
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8th Nov 2015 3:58pm |
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| Nidge Member Since: 27 Jan 2008 Location: Kildare Ireland Posts: 817
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I have decided to convert it to a pick up with canvas back so if anyone knows of a good truck cab about please let me know
Nigel |
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8th Nov 2015 4:05pm |
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| Nidge Member Since: 27 Jan 2008 Location: Kildare Ireland Posts: 817
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Made some good progress over the festive season, between the constant rain showers
Picked up a decent Truck cab and headlining and started the process of removing the Hard top and fitting the pick up cab. Not sure if the pick up is the way to go ?? Would love to rebuild it as a station wagon but thats a lot more ££££ and decent 2nd hand parts are hard to com by Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge |
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3rd Jan 2016 5:19pm |
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| Nidge Member Since: 27 Jan 2008 Location: Kildare Ireland Posts: 817
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Then set to work on replacing the rear axle with 110 td5 Rover axle with heavy duty drive flanges, a tidy axle with no leaks or noises and only has 90k on it. Cleaned it up and painted with 2 coats of POR 15.
Click image to enlarge Removed the rear trailing arms and upper links, replacd all the bushes with Genuine Lr ones. All cleaned up and painted. Click image to enlarge New Genuine Land rover station wagon springs, galvanised spring seats and TF heavy duty retainers. Saving the pennies for a set of Koni Shox to complete the rear axle. Click image to enlarge |
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3rd Jan 2016 5:30pm |
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| L110CDL Member Since: 31 Oct 2015 Location: Devon Posts: 10742 
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Nice thread N, progress is great, love to see another 110 pick up being born lol
 great updates, look forward to the next batch, the only way to go is , what are you going to use it mostly for ? |
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3rd Jan 2016 7:51pm |
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| g-mack Member Since: 07 Jan 2014 Location: northumberland Posts: 1967 
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great work so far
 My 109 thread
my youtube channel |
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3rd Jan 2016 8:00pm |
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| Nidge Member Since: 27 Jan 2008 Location: Kildare Ireland Posts: 817
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Thanks for the replies, I was beginning to think I was talking to myself !!
But its a good way of recording the progress. Will be mainly used to cart my 2 German shepherds around...then again, as soon I finish it, I will probably find another one to build and end up selling it on....Ah well I enjoy working on them and learn more each one I do. |
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3rd Jan 2016 8:02pm |
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| L110CDL Member Since: 31 Oct 2015 Location: Devon Posts: 10742
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their is always members out there that read alot before committing to a reply
as for your dogs, i would keep the hard top on and if you wanted you could put a kind of bulkhead ie full height dog guard or solid one ?  |
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3rd Jan 2016 8:07pm |
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| CR Member Since: 28 Jan 2010 Location: Ireland Posts: 947 
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soft top is the way to go
whats the final body colour going to be ? |
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4th Jan 2016 7:27am |
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| Nidge Member Since: 27 Jan 2008 Location: Kildare Ireland Posts: 817
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Well I've hit a bit of a road block with this project.....And there's me thinking it was nearly ready to be road tested
On first inspection way back when I started out the chassis looked to be repairable and only needed a new cross member and one small patch welded on the chassis. A friend of mine said he'd do the welding for me if I removed the tank etc and did all the prep work. So I promptly order a cross member from Clive at Black sheep off road and set about removing the tank. This morning I set about cutting out the rusted part of the chassis and he's were my problems began. Found another 3 holes in the chassis rails, all quite bad and who knows what the rest of the rails are like on the inside, as lots of rust flakes fell out as I cut out the bad bits. Not sure what to do with it now as I don't have the facilities to replace a chassis myself and I can't afford the cost of paying some else to do it. Stumped
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30th Jan 2016 1:24pm |
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| L110CDL Member Since: 31 Oct 2015 Location: Devon Posts: 10742
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Very sorry to hear of your problem
 i cant help you to make a decision, but my two penny worth is bite the bullet and repair all the bad area's or find some where (if funds allow)to carry out a chassis change, very tough decision you got.
Clayton. |
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30th Jan 2016 8:23pm |
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| Nidge Member Since: 27 Jan 2008 Location: Kildare Ireland Posts: 817
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While I am still in 2 minds to weld the chassis or replace, I cracked on with replacing the front axle. At least now if I do go down the new chassis route everything should come apart easy.
Also tackled a pig of a job removing the steering drop arm 
Old axle coming out Click image to enlarge New one in place off a low mileage td5 cleaned up and painted in 2 coats of Por15. Galvanized turrets, springs seats and a set of new shox off a 2015 puma. Radius arms and pan hard rod with new Lr bushes, cleaned and painted and installed with new bolts. Click image to enlarge Front half of the chassis looks in good order so while the axle was out I cleaned off all the surface rust and painted up in ....you guessed it 2 coats of POR 15 Click image to enlarge Has to be the most rewarding part of the build bolting on new parts and cleaned up parts. Today's job is to finish of the steering links and install the Terrafirma heavy duty steering bars , I am not a great fan of the TF stuff but their heavy duty bars do look impressive for the price. |
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6th Mar 2016 9:05am |
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| Nidge Member Since: 27 Jan 2008 Location: Kildare Ireland Posts: 817
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Front axle now complete with heavy Duty TF steering bars. Need to get some new front springs as they look a bit grubby...didn't look too bad on the old axle !!
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11th Mar 2016 7:50pm |
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| mcma1 Member Since: 16 Oct 2012 Location: Northern Ireland Posts: 2892 |
Fair play, everything is going well.
I wish the forum setup had the 'like' option for posts. Andy
2014 Fuji 110 SW LS3 https://www.defender2.net/forum/post751233.html#751233 2014 Corris 110 SW http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic40056.html My old Xtech 90 build.. http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic15681.html LS3 V8 build... http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic49051.html |
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11th Mar 2016 8:36pm |
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