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| geobloke Member Since: 06 Nov 2012 Location: Nottinghamshire Posts: 4410  
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Well we had a fun evening yesterday. I have never used Upols Raptor 2k before, there is a definite knack to it, but it does produce a wonderful texture for hard wearing surfaces. How hard wearing it actually is only time will tell. Yes the texture will capture dust etc, but I am not overly worried about that, the additional grippy nature of the texture will be worth it.
 Click image to enlarge Brilliant week to be painting in the evenings. So warm, dry and almost windless. I also did the jackal sills as well, because they always get abused by folks treading on them as well as the occasional love tap from the terrain. All that needs doing now is a little chassis rub-down and paint then it can all go back on again. Well once the new bolts etc arrive that is. Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge |
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24th May 2023 11:46am |
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| geobloke Member Since: 06 Nov 2012 Location: Nottinghamshire Posts: 4410
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Hi Blackwolf. I am pretty pleased with it too. I do not know why Mantec actually disappeared, but if it had anything to do with the plastic coating they used I am not surprised. In places it was incredibly thin, almost see through it.
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24th May 2023 2:19pm |
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| Screbble Member Since: 26 Apr 2015 Location: Lancashire Posts: 2077 
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Those painted parts do look rather splendid.
Another job well done 👍 |
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24th May 2023 6:04pm |
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| geobloke Member Since: 06 Nov 2012 Location: Nottinghamshire Posts: 4410
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Thanks Screbble.
Yes I think it will do nicely and when the roll cage requires some attention I suspect I will raptor it as well. Has to be better than the plastic coating anyway. What I could do with now is polisher to spruce up the paint a little. It never ends... |
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24th May 2023 6:29pm |
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| L110CDL Member Since: 31 Oct 2015 Location: Devon Posts: 10728 
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Great lot of work done and very satisfying getting her on the wheels again
The weather is great for you to be getting on with all these jobs, it makes them go that much quicker  1996 Golf Blue 300Tdi 110 Pick up.
Keeper. Clayton. |
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25th May 2023 8:45pm |
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| geobloke Member Since: 06 Nov 2012 Location: Nottinghamshire Posts: 4410
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k ok here she is with bits back in again…
Back in black 🤠 Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge So, not quite back together but I just wanted to see how the newly painted surrounds looked. The grill is ready to go too but the panel it mounts to needs a bit of paint. Managed to drop dot4 on to it a while back and it striped the paint off 🙈 The steering guard and winch have also gone black, well the winch was anyway. I think it is going to look good. Different. A nice change. On a fitting note everything went back together with fresh stainless hardware and the chassis tubes the bolts go through were heavily doused in Lanoguard before the bolts were inserted. Rust now you swine 🤣 Have to say the new Lanogiard chassis fine mist wand is superb. The old one splurged more than sprayed, this one give a nice fine mist Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge |
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26th May 2023 8:56pm |
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| Co1 Member Since: 19 Aug 2018 Location: North Yorkshire Posts: 3667 
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Looking very tidy indeed.
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27th May 2023 11:49am |
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| geobloke Member Since: 06 Nov 2012 Location: Nottinghamshire Posts: 4410
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Following on from the new Lanoguard chassis wand nozzle I thought I would follow up with a before and after.
The nozzle: Compared to the old cylindrical nozzle the new 3D printed one provides a much better almost 360 degree fan pattern. I highly recommend that if you are doing this job to warm up the Lanoguard to around 20 degrees and then it flows beautifully through the nozzle. I cannot say how different the experience would be on a winters morning... I think that it was just that the nozzle became snagged on something, but I did lose one of the nozzles inside the chassis. It happened as I was retracting the wand whilst pumping, so I cannot say whether it was pulled out or pushed off by the fluid. But... it is much much better than the original nozzle of a year or so ago. The wand: It is a goo length but I always want it to be twice the length. The other end: The new metal screw attachment for connecting the wand to the pump sprayer is excellent. Great fit and the knurled rim helps swap between the wand and the standard nozzle easily. The fluid (Lanoguard): Something has changed with this. It still smells like chewing on fleece but unlike the last bottle I bought where the product sprayed with a slight greenie tinge this bottle of product went on thinner (that could be temperature) and a few hours after the application the chassis turned black...  It isn't tinted black, but there must be something different in the chemistry.
I am both shocked and delighted as this was something I really wanted from the product. It is weird though that they don't advertise it. Weird. This is what the chassis looked like before application Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge and then the equivalent on the other side. It is a lovely flat black that appears to "colour" both painted, bare metal and areas with surface rust. Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge I will do a better before and after later when I do the other side of the chassis so that it is like for like, but I am impressed so far. |
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28th May 2023 8:38am |
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| TexasRover Member Since: 24 Nov 2022 Location: Paris Posts: 1008  
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Great job keeping the landy in tip-top condition and thanks for sharing.. little highlight of my day reading your blog.
There is something very satisfying about 'wax style' rust application. It is environmentally friendly, but also it is the repeat application that I like. You are looking after something, cleaning, reapplying, you are renewing the protection. Most of us will remember the bitumen which was a disaster, you thought you were doing your car a favour, but really you just applied a disease. I like changing the oil for the same reason, just feels good. |
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28th May 2023 9:15am |
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| TexasRover Member Since: 24 Nov 2022 Location: Paris Posts: 1008
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just out of interest, what is the heat sink we can see on the forward portside, under the passenger foot well?
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28th May 2023 9:17am |
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| geobloke Member Since: 06 Nov 2012 Location: Nottinghamshire Posts: 4410
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You are not wrong it is marvellously satisfying doing this job. I will drop the endoscope into the chassis later and see what has happened in there. Dead curious now. |
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28th May 2023 9:40am |
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| geobloke Member Since: 06 Nov 2012 Location: Nottinghamshire Posts: 4410
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That is the R380 oil cooler When I rebuilt the R380 I put it on to protect the investment. Blooming marvellous thing that should (IMHO) be fitted to all Defenders that have been modified, used with a trailer or live in climes that are only slightly warmer than here. The difference is between blackened oil at service time and almost clean looking oil. |
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28th May 2023 9:43am |
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| geobloke Member Since: 06 Nov 2012 Location: Nottinghamshire Posts: 4410
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I haven' done much to the old girl today, but I did get time to fit the newly painted "nose" and front grill. Although I am a few black fir-trees down typically.
Next is to sort out that A-bar bracket that has melted away. Anyway, I like the black surrounds and grill on the dark blue
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28th May 2023 5:25pm |
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| geobloke Member Since: 06 Nov 2012 Location: Nottinghamshire Posts: 4410
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Oh no... My bargain hunting has got away with me...
:rofl:
So, the soft A-bar on Miffy is suffering from the age old problem of having rusty mounting brackets. Apart from buying a full fitting kit at about £100 the only other option is a DIY make your own bracket. Without a welder or a vice the my metal-smithing abilities are somewhat limited at present and it is proving tricky to find someone to do it for me locally. Hey-ho... Plan-B... Always have to have a Plan-B... Suddenly on FB marketplace a local bloke was selling a LR nudge bar (STC50270) for a very reasonable price and well it is now sitting outside my house :rolleyes: This is going to be a marmite thing I know, bull bars are not to everyones taste, but I happen to like them. In fact if it were not for this exact same bar on my first Defender I might not be here today. No joke... This particular bar was the first attempt at making the bull bars a little more friendly with the addition of two vertical foam pads on the central uprights. I think this was the last iteration of bars that were available before the ban on selling new bull bars. The soft A-bars and wrap around bar came a few years later as an alternative to maintain the beefy looking front end. Anyway my first thought is that the mounting bracket would be fairly easily modified to create an alternative to the soft A-bar mounting bracket. After all the bumper and chassis bolt positions are the same, all that would need doing is to tack on the two soft A-bar captive nuts... Job done new brakes for the soft A-bar
But......... Oh my... I had forgotten how much I liked a wrap around bar :rolleyes: Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge The bar itself is in good shape, it is straight and is just suffering from a little plastic coating peel and the foam pads could do with a little attention due to sun damage. The only fitment issue to the Mantec winch bumper appears to be the winches free-spool lever. Otherwise it could just slip into place. Click image to enlarge I am now struggling to justify cutting this bar up just for the bracket. Plus, I like the look of the bar... Oh no... What do you good people think? |
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