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Me and 8gun of here have decided to take on a bit of a project. Its a Series land rover we are going to refurbish hopefully before the winter for an all purpose run around, off read vehicle and possibly lamping vehicle Its all very "lots of talk" at the moment, but we did a few hours the other day on it and i thought i would show PW guys what we have managed. We are a long way off, and along the way almost every single part is going to need to be bought new or second hand or stripped and rebuilt, with the exception of the major components and body work. So we had to start by freeing the axles from the old chassis. The axles were to be attached to the new chassis as the original is completely beyond saving, to give you an idea of how much it had degraded i dropped a hammer on it, and it fell clean through the chassis, so no steel plate was going to fix this. Anyway Surprisingly some of the U bolts that hold the Axles to the leaf springs came right off, others tool a little gentle persuasion with a hammer. This is what we were left with. After the Axles were free we moved them into position and placed the chassis on top of them and admired our work. We were about to attach them up when we realized we had both axles upside down and the wrong way around. After much sweating and swearing, we corrected our imbecile mistake and carried on. Did i mention that neither me or 8gun know very little about actually how land rovers are made?.... well we don't. But embarking on these kind of adventures without really thinking is the history of our friendship, which goes back to the day we were born. Anyway after putting our backs out lifting stupidly heavy things, we were on track again and had the chassis resting on the axles with everything the right way around. ( in this picture they are still upside down wrong way around) After a lot more work, some grease here and there, a lot of mistakes. We got the leaf springs attached and the axles attached to those. Cracking. Anyway we found that land rovers are really simply and if something is difficult; you are probably doing it wrong. Thus me made a lot of things difficult for our selves.