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custom90



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Looking great - Millie has never looked so clean. Ready for the lanes eventually. Thumbs Up ⭐️⭐️God Bless the USA 🇬🇧🇺🇸 ⭐️⭐️
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L110CDL



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Procta wrote:
i will get a couple of photos, if anything its just cracking, But i think my dads been too hand fisted when tighten it on. A good glue at the back would see it ok


Sounds good with the pic's Procta thanks Thumbs Up 1996 Golf Blue 300Tdi 110 Pick up.

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Clayton.
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L110CDL



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custom90steve wrote:
Looking great - Millie has never looked so clean. Ready for the lanes eventually. Thumbs Up


Thanks Steve Thumbs Up

Yes not sure when but she will be in her element Very Happy 1996 Golf Blue 300Tdi 110 Pick up.

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Clayton.
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L110CDL wrote:
Procta wrote:
i will get a couple of photos, if anything its just cracking, But i think my dads been too hand fisted when tighten it on. A good glue at the back would see it ok


Sounds good with the pic's Procta thanks Thumbs Up


No bother, it stops my dad chucking away a parts that are still ok, He has a bit of a habit of doing that, the Censored chucked the drive flanges i had spare. I could have offered those on here. Defender TD5 90 ---/--- Peugeot 306 HDI hatch back

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L110CDL



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^^^

You will have to put your spare bits in a safe place he won't think of Procta Wink 1996 Golf Blue 300Tdi 110 Pick up.

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Clayton.
Post #825617 15th Apr 2020 7:05pm
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Procta



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yeah in my own storage Laughing I will be moving some odds and sods into a crate so they are out of the way. Thumbs Up Defender TD5 90 ---/--- Peugeot 306 HDI hatch back

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Post #825634 15th Apr 2020 8:33pm
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L110CDL



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Thumbs Up 1996 Golf Blue 300Tdi 110 Pick up.

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Clayton.
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L110CDL wrote:


At the same time i set about fixing the well known week spot on the door as i did try to fix this a few years ago but to no avail Rolling Eyes
I started of with the bolt that secures the window mechanism as a good point then i got a good piece of metal and filed the cut edges smooth, then drilled a hole for the bolt to go through, then bent it to the right angle and then drilled the other hole in the door ....


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Then the piece of metal in place and a nut and bolt on the right hand side ...



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What a difference the piece of metal has made, the door shuts spot on with a good solid sound and i'm well happy with the outcome Very Happy


Hi Clayton, it's been a little while now since you tried this fix. How's it holding up?

Mine is gone in the same place - seems they all do. I have a repair panel to make a proper fix, but I don't weld and can't manage to sort this at the moment so I'm looking to your example as something which should hopefully make an improvement and last a little longer. Donald

1994 Defender 300Tdi 110 SW - owned since 2002 - 230k miles and going strong
(The 'rolling restoration' or tinkering thread: http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic58538.html )
2000 Range Rover P38 4.0L V8

in the past..
RR classic - fitted with 200Tdi
1984 RR classic - V8 with ZF auto box
1993 Discovery 300Tdi

not to mention the minis and the Type 2 VW camper...
Post #827991 27th Apr 2020 3:30pm
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L110CDL



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Hi there Don

The fix is holding up really good as up to now, no signs of the door not shutting like it use to, it's shutting very solid as when i first did this fix Thumbs Up 1996 Golf Blue 300Tdi 110 Pick up.

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Clayton.
Post #828091 27th Apr 2020 8:58pm
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donmacn



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Brilliant, thanks mate. I'll have a go at that then! I'll be at that stage in the next week or so, so it's good to have a little more confidence that it will keep the door going for a bit longer before taking it off for a more involved new panel/weld repair.

I'll post some pics when I eventually get round to updating my own build thread. Donald

1994 Defender 300Tdi 110 SW - owned since 2002 - 230k miles and going strong
(The 'rolling restoration' or tinkering thread: http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic58538.html )
2000 Range Rover P38 4.0L V8

in the past..
RR classic - fitted with 200Tdi
1984 RR classic - V8 with ZF auto box
1993 Discovery 300Tdi

not to mention the minis and the Type 2 VW camper...
Post #828100 27th Apr 2020 9:25pm
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L110CDL



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Look forward to your thread update Don Thumbs Up

Just to say that don't forget that when you drill the bolt hole on the right hand side, make sure there is no gap in the crack part Wink 1996 Golf Blue 300Tdi 110 Pick up.

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Clayton.
Post #828101 27th Apr 2020 9:33pm
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donmacn



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Thanks Clayton - good advice, and easy to overlook.

I hope I'll be OK with that though. When i had the 'new' doors fitted and painted there was already a crack there, so they welded it - but obviously welding along a stress line by itself wasn't enough. There's enough of the weld left though to be keeping things together.

Cheers Donald

1994 Defender 300Tdi 110 SW - owned since 2002 - 230k miles and going strong
(The 'rolling restoration' or tinkering thread: http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic58538.html )
2000 Range Rover P38 4.0L V8

in the past..
RR classic - fitted with 200Tdi
1984 RR classic - V8 with ZF auto box
1993 Discovery 300Tdi

not to mention the minis and the Type 2 VW camper...
Post #828105 27th Apr 2020 9:43pm
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Thumbs Up 1996 Golf Blue 300Tdi 110 Pick up.

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Clayton.
Post #828329 28th Apr 2020 7:19pm
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So after some answers from LRA i set about on the Saturday just gone to do my window blocks as i think there was some sort of silicone instead of some type of gasket.

I started on the N/S window block first, in the pic before work commenced




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Once the block was off you can see that there is very little of anything there Rolling Eyes
just a bit more on from where it came off




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none on the window block itself Rolling Eyes




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no wonder water was coming in Sad

I then set to giving the area's a good clean of all the c--p that was on there to give a good seal, i then made a rubber gasket to fit the block ( i followed LRA's info on this )




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When i took the bolts out and the metal plate, it was a bit rusty there so i put a good amount of Kurust on to help it and the plate and bolts were quite rusty, but i had remembered that a in one of my spare boxes i had a set, so i used them as they were like new.

The top ones are the old ones and the bottom ones are the newer ones




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With plenty of copper grease on each bolt, the window block was put back on and the gasket looked proper there and hopefully keeping the water out




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I repeated this on the O/S window block as well, window block off




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The bolts and plate were not as bad as the N/S ones, but i still used the newer ones




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All on




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Well pleased with the outcome and was a please to do with no set backs

Mr. Green 1996 Golf Blue 300Tdi 110 Pick up.

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Clayton.
Post #828341 28th Apr 2020 7:54pm
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I bet you were getting water in before hand? Mine was just had plain silicon which did the square root of bot all. Gaskets its got to be with some dum dum tape. Defender TD5 90 ---/--- Peugeot 306 HDI hatch back

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