Paint your Wagon

[1960SeriesII]

Very nice, keep up the good work

[Wheeledbeast]

M.O.T booked for monday

Busy weekend ahead

[Wheeledbeast]

Fuel tank back in. the tank was galvanised, but I thought it would look better painted. So I gave it a coat of primer and a couple of coats of the yellow. Looks okay, but I did manage to scratch it putting it back in. ( as you can see from the photo). I am not sure that the paint will stick, but job is done now, and it will not be done again.

The reason the tank had to come off is that it had ½- ¾ of an inch of sand/mud in the bottom. Adding fresh petrol made the whole mixture look like Robinsons lemon barley water (other brands are probably available ). So it had to be taken off and have a good hosing out.

Also managed to tidy up spme of the RHS, but the side against the house is in a mess.

[Wheeledbeast]

MOT went reasonably well, only failed on a couple of points, dodgy connection on the number plate light, over adjusted brake on the near side and a small patch of rust near one of the rear tow hitch mountings…
… Now for the bad news I broke down three times on the two mile trip to the MOT centre. (Obviously always in the middle of the worst place on a busy road). I only seem to have two gears and it gets stupidly hot in the cab. I cut out some repair patches to weld on to the back, then I started cleaning of the chassis with a wire brush on the angle grinder. It soon became apparent that the rust was much worse than it looked as the angle grinder ate through half of the back end. So I think I will fit a new cross member at the rear. Oh and then the ¾ ton got jealous of all the attention the Fc was getting and decided to loose compression on 2,3 and 4. Not exactly what I was hoping for, but I am pleased at the amount of stuff that went well on the MOT.

[col]

Smile on its the only way why is it with landies when you devote time to one landy, problems occur with the daily driver

[Trubster]

Hi have followed your thread with interest, and for you to have been able go from purchase to going for an MOT ( even if you did break down) in the relatively short period of time is a very good achievement. In the same period of time mine has seen the temporary fitment of the dash panel, and the bonnet lifted and promptly put back down again!!!!......I really must use all this inspiration to get out there and do some real work.....after all, having a ceiling in the bedroom, or a flushing toilet, or..... etc. etc. etc. etc. is'nt that much of a priority !!!!!...and a man does need a hobby!

[Wheeledbeast]

Thought I would update you with some pictures of my rear end…Ooh Matron . The rust highlighted in the MOT was far worse than I expected; I wire brushed away half the cross member So I decided to replace the whole thing. You will get the gist from the pictures…..












Ps Trubster, I have been going to mend the leak in the coal shed, or fix hole in the kitchen ceiling, or fit the shower screen all for at least two years now...but they are boring jobs

[Wheeledbeast]

Does this remind anyone of a baboon


Unfortunately I have been having some difficulty getting a new rear cover plate, so it will have to have some kind of bodge for the MOT. Not what I wanted to do, but I am running out of time

[Wheeledbeast]

I started trying to sort out the gear change problems . The front to rear linkage had more slop in it than a burns night super . The main problem was that it was very hard to get reverse or to change from 1st and 2nd into 3rd and 4th (the rotating action of the shaft).Someone else had obviously had problems with it in the past as they seem to have gone a bit mental with the welder, everything seemed to be welded to everything else ( both UJs welded on to the shaft and one UJ had been had been welded up completely, pins welded into the UJs).

Step one was to get the 100mm grinder in there and cut the shaft out. The shaft seems to be a track rod of some kind.

Step two was to source some new UJs, rover pats seemed to be unobtainable so I got some 16mm\Huco UJs from RS for £18 each, they are plastic and a little large, but seem to be well made.


Huco/ Rover /welded up Rover

Step 3 was to make replacements for rover part 509662 and 3 adjusting screws. They are the same threads as the trackrod ends, so I was able to chop up some old ends and get them turned down to 16mm to make a tight sliding fit into the UJs. I then drilled and tapped holes in the screw ends and Ujs so I could assemble them. I thought threads would give less play than holes and pins.


Turned down trackrod ends

Step 4 after I had stripped and cleaned the rest of the selector mechanism I reassembled it. This is an easy line to type, but in reality it involved a lot of swearing and working at impossible angles, with grease everywhere


The Parts ready for reassembly

Final step . I decided to shim up the Gear selector as the control rod is very close to the steering arm, so I moved it up by around 4mm. Then I have covered the selector with the bladder from an old Mini football, this is packed with grease and ought to keep the water and dirt out.


It all seems to work, although I may have to adjust the length of the rod, to stop me banging my fingers on the dash when I select reverse. I will let you know when the truck is mobile again.

[22900013A]

Very interesting. The IIA gear selector mechanism is one of those little known bits of trivia that almost nobody seems to know about. In many ways I think Rover were just trying too hard, and decided to simply things with the IIB setup.