Mike737 Posted March 16, 2016 Report Share Posted March 16, 2016 Glaze buster! All looking good!!! Mike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuji Shooter Posted March 16, 2016 Report Share Posted March 16, 2016 now obviously im no paint sprayer but time wise that seems like a hell of a long time to sand down the lower half of a land rover, nor do i know what the process is for spraying a car but 3 days also seems a lot, i could spray 100 double Decker buses in that time Nor am I but seeing as I am not even removing so much as a nut off it I guess it takes a fair bit of time. As for painting 3 days I would have thought is about right to mask it off, etch primer, primer, paint and baking and then any bits they missed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viking Posted March 16, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2016 Glaze buster! All looking good!!! Mike. thats the one Nor am I but seeing as I am not even removing so much as a nut off it I guess it takes a fair bit of time. As for painting 3 days I would have thought is about right to mask it off, etch primer, primer, paint and baking and then any bits they missed. im sure your rite mate, its probably seems one of them jobs where you cant understand where the time goes, im sure its not as easy as i make it sound wouldnt mind some before and after pics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viking Posted March 20, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2016 got a few hours in on Saturday morning putting new pistons, rings and big end shells on/in and nearly all put back together, looks good now , not sure what happened to the head, put a small towel over it for a few days to keep it clean and looked on Saturday and it was as you see, missing some paint, cant work it out . . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike737 Posted March 20, 2016 Report Share Posted March 20, 2016 Does it want to be painted where the manifold gasket fits? Mike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viking Posted March 20, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2016 i hope so, if not then its an easy fix Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viking Posted March 21, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2016 week off work this week so plenty of time for tinkering. thought id take gear sticks off today,clean them up and paint them . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viking Posted March 21, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2016 (edited) than thought id give the gearbox a go over seem as i soaked it in diesel or paraffin weeks ago then jet washed it but as its been sat there not covered its picked up some muck/dust/pait/crud, so gave it a bit of a go over with the wire wheel, not great but better than it was and its not really seen . . . Edited March 21, 2016 by viking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viking Posted March 21, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2016 and a few test seconds on this as the wire wheel had worn down to nothing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted March 21, 2016 Report Share Posted March 21, 2016 this cleaning thing is getting out of control........................... you must see someone about it and have some councilling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viking Posted March 21, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2016 this cleaning thing is getting out of control........................... you must see someone about it and have some councilling just what my mate said yesterday when he came round and i was wire discing my old pliers for no reason other than because they were in my hand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted March 22, 2016 Report Share Posted March 22, 2016 just what my mate said yesterday when he came round and i was wire discing my old pliers for no reason other than because they were in my hand just make sure when you go for a pee round the back of the shed you are nowhere near your wire brush.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viking Posted March 22, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2016 got a few things back on the engine today, looks like 5 minutes work but i was in there for about 5 hours, had a good tidy up, looking for nuts and bolts,pleased with my efforts though . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viking Posted March 22, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2016 bit of paint on gear sticks, ready to go back on tomorrow and hopefully get gearbox back on the engine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viking Posted March 22, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2016 also made a slow start on this, going to take bits off and clean them and around them, it looks easy to take apart but not so easy to put back to me. although my mate pointed out a couple of things i shouldn't take off . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viking Posted March 22, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2016 well i did say it was a slow start . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted March 22, 2016 Report Share Posted March 22, 2016 you are getting on fine ..........word of advice...........when you remove something and it has a copper washer do one of two things replace it with a new one....or flattern them off both sides on smooth emery paper and heat to red heat with blowlamp and drop into cold water never put a used copper washer back...it will 9/10 times leak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amateur Posted March 22, 2016 Report Share Posted March 22, 2016 you are getting on fine ..........word of advice...........when you remove something and it has a copper washer do one of two things replace it with a new one....or flattern them off both sides on smooth emery paper and heat to red heat with blowlamp and drop into cold water never put a used copper washer back...it will 9/10 times leak I would add that. even with a new washer. it is worth annealing it. - the ruddy things can harden in storage, that's why I've always replaced mine on the bikes with Dowty washers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted March 22, 2016 Report Share Posted March 22, 2016 I would add that. even with a new washer. it is worth annealing it. - the ruddy things can harden in storage, that's why I've always replaced mine on the bikes with Dowty washers ferrous metals are strange things.......i was told once that the main part of a fast jet body is some sort of thick hot pressed frame which the wings attatch to........the aluminium still gets harder after a mth and wont gain its full strenght till after 6 mths..........weird Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viking Posted March 23, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2016 you are getting on fine ..........word of advice...........when you remove something and it has a copper washer do one of two things replace it with a new one....or flattern them off both sides on smooth emery paper and heat to red heat with blowlamp and drop into cold water never put a used copper washer back...it will 9/10 times leak I would add that. even with a new washer. it is worth annealing it. - the ruddy things can harden in storage, that's why I've always replaced mine on the bikes with Dowty washers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amateur Posted March 23, 2016 Report Share Posted March 23, 2016 ferrous metals are strange things.......i was told once that the main part of a fast jet body is some sort of thick hot pressed frame which the wings attatch to........the aluminium still gets harder after a mth and wont gain its full strenght till after 6 mths..........weird Didn't you mean NON-ferrous metals - we were talking about copper and aluminium alloys. Alfred Wilm discovered Dural by accident after he had made a copper/aluminium alloy, and then found that it hardened with time, so was much more usable as an engineering construction material than pure aluminium Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted March 23, 2016 Report Share Posted March 23, 2016 sorry non-ferrous Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viking Posted March 24, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2016 about as clean as there going to be, getting a bit bored of all this cleaning things up now . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viking Posted March 24, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2016 a while ago some kind soul offered to look at my injectors and see if they were ok, cant remember who it was?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted March 24, 2016 Report Share Posted March 24, 2016 (edited) a while ago some kind soul offered to look at my injectors and see if they were ok, cant remember who it was?? if you send them to me i will do them.............the nozzles should be about £6.00 each.....pay for nozzles and postage and call it quits...ive got the pressure settings chart so they will be spot on......... whats that lever thingy on the inlet manifold...is it a shut down flap ? Edited March 24, 2016 by ditchman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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