LandRoverAnorak wrote:

Mudflaps? Err, no. They're definitely in 'exhaust' territory.

But you have done your tyres  2015 HT XS 90
2008 SVX 90
2000 XS TD5 90

Sulisuli wrote:

LandRoverAnorak wrote:

Mudflaps? Err, no. They're definitely in 'exhaust' territory.

But you have done your tyres

Yeah well, I happened to have a bottle marked 'tyre dressing' so it seemed rude not to.

Stainless mudflaps? Well that's a choice Mine use the Gwyn Lewis removable kit. Darren

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LandRoverAnorak wrote:

I recently bought a set of Huttopia's rather splendid billet aluminium hinge blocks to replace the originals, as the paint on the latter was starting to bubble, despite being resprayed about eighteen months ago.

As delivered, they have a matt black, anodised finish:


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I wasn't keen on that so decided to spray them in body colour, as per the originals:


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This was achieved by prepping them with some 1200 grit wet and dry, giving them a couple of coats of etch primer, two more of regular primer, two top coats and a final coat of clear lacquer, all from rattle cans. The 1200 grit was used again between each coat except the final top coat and the lacquer. I'm very pleased with the final result:


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Huttopia very kindly includes a set of standard cardboard gaskets with his blocks, but I've always thought that their performance as gaskets was pretty poor. They also don't line up particularly well with the bolt holes:


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I therefore decided to make my own from some thin rubber sheet. It was a relatively simple task to draw around the blocks and cut them out with scissors. The holes were measured and then cut out with the scalpel:


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They were then positioned on the hinge blocks and held in place with a couple of very small dabs of superglue:


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When it came to fitting, I tackled the drivers side first. I mentioned above that the original blocks had already been repainted, which included the windscreen frame and was just before I collected the vehicle. When I removed this block, I was dismayed to find that it had obviously been re-fitted before the paint had dryed and removing the cardboard gasket took off some of the paint, too:


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There was a hint of corrosion within the bolt hole through the frame and the middle bolt, that passes through the top of the bulkhead was also quite crusty. I cleaned it all up as best I could but the paintwork will require some more attention in the near future. As a stopgap though, I taped over the three holes on the outside and then squirted Dinitrol into them from inside:


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I then replaced the bolts with stainless ones:


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And finished them off with some black caps:


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MussEd wrote:

You don't have the details of the stainless bolts somewhere do you? Planning on doing this job next week and unusually I'd like to organise all I need in advance rather than the normal procedure of getting halfway through before realising I need bits and bobs!

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LandRoverAnorak wrote:

Yeah, they're M8 x 50mm flanged head, purchased from eBay.