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Procta



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Woody3 wrote:
Thanks for the replies chaps.

After careful consideration, I've decided to keep with Eastnor Green. The 200tdi is going to stay for now too. I do tow occasionally, so some extra grunt would have been nice. Having said that, it's a keeper, so looking long term, should the 200tdi last at least another decade, I guess the next conversion will be to electric.

Anyway back to the present...

Just got the bulkhead to remove now (the rear tub will be repaired insitu). I'm at a crossroads with the bulkhead. I have three maybe four options.
Option 1 - repair and galvanise existing bulkhead, which is straight, but gone on the corners and footwells
Option 2 - repair and galvanise a Td5 bulkhead that I have which is rust free, but buckled, with accident damage on the o/s door pillar and corner.
Option 3 - buy a new galv'd bulkead at £1650 Shocked
Option 4 - find a straight, honest bulkhead and galvanise it myself.

Photos to follow, but thoughts on the bulkhead options would be much appreciated!


How much do you want to spend? if i had the budget, i would buy a new galv bulkhead and then repair the old one and sell on later Thumbs Up If you have the skills i would just repair the old unit and galv it Defender TD5 90 ---/--- Peugeot 306 HDI hatch back

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L90Andy



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Following this rebuild Woody Thumbs Up
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Woody3



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United Kingdom 1989 Defender 90 200 Tdi HT Bronze Green
Can't believe it's been nearly 3 months since my last post.

Bit of an update:

After spending a week or so shot blasting the td5 bulkhead, I took it to a couple of metalwork fabricators/bodywork shops and neither wanted to take on the job of straightening it. So, plan B took over, and instead of wasting another week shot blasting the original bulkhead, I sent it off to the paint strippers who are dipping it this week, hopefully!

Then it's a case of buying the replacement panels and finding a good, local welder.

Other progress:

Seat box now repaired and is ready for painting.

Ordered new clutch slave cylinder and associated pipework, due to a slow constant leak. Unfortunately the clip on the clutch rod broke, so I now have the awful task of fitting a new one.

Galvanised turrets purchased and are being replaced.

Fixing the dents in the osf wing - managed to source the front headlight section of the wing, just looking for the side part of the wing now.

Need to do a couple of repairs on the rear tub. I will upload some more photos.

That's currently where I am, but at least things are being put back together now!
Post #850522 17th Aug 2020 2:33pm
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Woody3



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United Kingdom 1989 Defender 90 200 Tdi HT Bronze Green
Got my bulkhead back!

The paint strippers have done an amazing job. Surprisingly, it's not as bad as I was expecting! From my initial inspection, it looks like it needs both footwells replacing, both top corners and the foot to the o/s door pillar.


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Will do a better inspection later this evening.

Oh and the clip that attaches the clutch rod to the clutch fork arrived today, so that'll be tonight's frustrating job! Laughing
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mk1collector



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Doesn’t look too bad Thumbs Up just noticed the pic by your name, if that’s guy Martin my mrs was chatting to him last week about some work he’d got her work to do for him Thumbs Up Ray
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Woody3



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United Kingdom 1989 Defender 90 200 Tdi HT Bronze Green
Procta wrote:


How much do you want to spend? if i had the budget, i would buy a new galv bulkhead and then repair the old one and sell on later Thumbs Up If you have the skills i would just repair the old unit and galv it


Sorry Procta - I didn't realise that I hadn't responded! I looked into buying a new one, but I just couldn't find a reliable source. Hopefully I have better luck sourcing a skilled mobile welder that is prepared to take on the job of repairing mine.
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Woody3



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United Kingdom 1989 Defender 90 200 Tdi HT Bronze Green
mk1collector wrote:
Doesn’t look too bad Thumbs Up just noticed the pic by your name, if that’s guy Martin my mrs was chatting to him last week about some work he’d got her work to do for him Thumbs Up


It is indeed! Thumbs Up
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Woody3



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United Kingdom 1989 Defender 90 200 Tdi HT Bronze Green
A further update!

The bulkhead is in at the local Land Rover specialists for repair. I'm hoping to have it back and galvanised before Christmas!

I've fitted a complete new LOF clutch kit and associated pipework and the gearbox has been reinstalled! When I removed the gearbox I noticed that it was only connected to the engine with half a dozen nuts and bolts on the top half of the bellhousing! It was the same for the flywheel housing too! I have fixed this by using countersunk bolts on the bottom of the flywheel housing and tapping the existing holes for the bellhousing.

Before (I wondered where all my clutch fluid was leaking too!):

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After:


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Gearbox being installed - have I got enough straps?


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And in

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Post #870470 30th Nov 2020 12:35pm
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Woody3



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United Kingdom 1989 Defender 90 200 Tdi HT Bronze Green
You'll also notice my galvanised chassis is now painted black! I've used Coroless paint system for this.
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You can never have to many straps Wink taking shape nicely there Thumbs Up 1996 Golf Blue 300Tdi 110 Pick up.

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Woody3



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A well overdue update!

So what's been happening...

Progress hasn't been as quick as I'd like, mainly due waiting since September for my bulkhead to come back from the repairers and work commitments.

However, last week, the bulkhead came back! Unfortunately the repairer decided to seam seal, prime and Raptor paint it prior to collection, not realising I was sending it to be galvanised. I think you'll agree he's done a cracking job though!

Original state:


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Back from the welders buy prior to the re-strip:


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And today after the re-strip:

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Other processes that have happened behind the scenes:
- stripped, rebuilt (with various new parts/fixings) and painted the front axle
- cleaned and painted the front half of the chassis

Next steps:

- Send bulkhead and various brackets/parts off to the galvanisers.
- Buy paint and spraying gear!
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Dinnu



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Great rebuild Thumbs Up

Just a remark, perhaps you want to sort out before sending the bulkhead to the galvanizers, it seams to be missing the 2 brackets (one on either side) that bolt the inner mudguard to the bulkhead.



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mrfirepro



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I recenly galvanised my bulkhead and then preped it and painted it, and overlooked taping and dieing all the threads, now I'm doing it with nice pristine paintwork with swarf and cutting oil everywhere, not my smartest move.
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Woody3



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Dinnu wrote:
Great rebuild Thumbs Up

Just a remark, perhaps you want to sort out before sending the bulkhead to the galvanizers, it seams to be missing the 2 brackets (one on either side) that bolt the inner mudguard to the bulkhead.





I wondered how long it would take for someone to spot that! They are in my "box of brackets/parts to galvanised" Very well spotted though! Thumbs Up

Yes, I will be re-tapping/prepping holes etc before painting - can't imagine that being fun to do afterwards Crying or Very sad

Hoping to pick up the paint this week - a (very) slight divergence in colour scheme... Whistle
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