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Decided to give Albert a good sorting out!

We want to make Albert the 88" a talking point in our works car-park (he already is, but for making a slick like the Amoco Cadiz!!!

I really want to do a very good restoration (not showroom standard etc!) to as close to original as possible. The chassis & other lower bits are very solid & just need a good de-surface rusting & then painting up good & proper. I am happy to do this myself.

The way I'm going to do this will be as follows -

Clean & sort the chassis with special paint & make it as rustproof as possible.

Replace shagged axle casing with a good one.

Strip out the interior & clean/replace/repair as much as I can.

Get a hardtop, or swap for the one I have that has side windows ( I want to have it signwritten in company logo etc) for a hard top.

The body panels are utterly mint with only one very small ding to repair & have it re-painted in petrol blue & limestone.

Engine & gearbox are sweet enough, the box is a tad difficult but I fear they all are in 1st gear at anything other than stopped. If not I'll replace the gearbox & stick an overdrive on for the laugh.

It really is in great shape apart from some trim issues & a ripped seat base.

I hate the spare wheel inside the car as it's a waste of space. The rear door had a wash wipe fitted & I don't really want that either as I would like to mount the spare there.

Anyone got any advice or got anything they think I might need & they don't!

Beers token are on hand to recompense!

I'm really after the hardtop sides with no windows in, either a bonnet that will take the spare. Even a rear door etc! Colour not an issue as it's getting the Lee_D roller treatment!

Final thing will be to get it sigwritten in company logo etc & use it for local deliveries & site visits & the like. I want it as a talking point & a working vehicle. Like an old delivery van kind of vibe!

Anyone got any advice or bits they want rid of?

BTW, what would you use to paint a very well used S3 steering wheel to make it look reasonable? Is it some kind of resin or what?

Cheers

Nige

-- Subaru WRX (The Bitch)

Series 3 Landrover 88" (Albert)

"If you tolerate this then your children will be next"

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Nige
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close to original as

de-surface rusting & then

Steam clean the underneath with a proper diesel burner type of steam cleaner, not those little patio washing pressure things. I can lend you the compressor to use with the Schutz or Makro in Leeds have some small ones that'll do the job at good prices. Boil kettle and fill a bucker, pierce lid of Schutz and let it warm up a lot in hot water, makes spraying it a doddle. Suit up though as it gets everywehere. Sometimes helps getting one end at a time up on ramps so you can gut underneath. Cheap tarp or DPC membrane on drive to stop it getting worse. I don;t care what anyone says about Schutze, I've used it years ago and it still has a self healing softness about it, might be due to the fact I thinned it a little as well. In the tin it is like treacle so how can it harden and blow from the chassis like the stuff found on mil chassis. Don;t have any washing outside or neighbours cars too close, white UPVC doors and such stuff are prime victims as well. .

Frosts do a good paint but IMHO unless you are going to work on a bare chassis and get in everywhere you are wasting money on it, might as well do the spray thing then do inside the chassis as well.

Pressure wash it and find out where it is leaking, if it is a specific area.

Do that when you paint it, really sets it off nice when the inside is a sparkly as outside.

it re-painted in petrol

you will surprise yoursefl with how good a finish you can get on a good day using a small roller. There is a Pound Shop in Keighley Airedale Centre that has them for a quid, roller, 3 rolls and tray. See antoher thread about what paint, coach enamel is nice and dries hard and glossy. Makro also have some small marquees for about £80 that are twice the size of your land rover, certainly up to the job of putting it up for a weekend and working inside out of the weather. Would be useful for painting.

had a wash wipe fitted & I

Swing away carriers are one option. On the bonnet looks OK if standard wheels, you won;t have probs seeing over it.

Do the axle first, then the chassis underneath (maybe do the interior then wait for the weather to get better before painting it.

look reasonable? Is it

Biting off too much in one go I reckon, easy way for it too never get finished. Go for the fresh workplace image part of it first then, that way you might not get cheesed off looking at it in bits and apparently not making progress.

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wayne

Cheers Wayne!

Looks like I have myself a project! I'm not after perfection, but I really want to keep this beastie on the road & I feel this a a legitamate busniess use of it too.

Nige

-- Subaru WRX (The Bitch)

Series 3 Landrover 88" (Albert)

"If you tolerate this then your children will be next"

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Nige

to keep this beastie on

But will we be seeing it on ebay before it's done. "wife forces sale"

Best get that oil leak sorted before taking it to customers premises, unless you are starting Pikey Tarmac Drives R Us

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wayne

Aye, decided to get it temporary fixed to get it mobile, then use it to pick up a very clean (as new) axle & diff for £50 i have found! I'll clean it up & hammerite it etc & then fit it at my leisure!

I'm looking forward to this job.

I have to add, it's not my first resto project, I rebuilt a mkI RS2000 to showroom condition, then sold it due to starting my own company! Mind you, we had a garage then, ours is now a dining room!

BTW, do you need the manuals back at all?

Nest time you're round my way if the Subaru is outside drop in for a coffee!

Ta

Nige

-- Subaru WRX (The Bitch)

Series 3 Landrover 88" (Albert)

"If you tolerate this then your children will be next"

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Nige

I have a steering wheel going spare, not too bad condition, just a little worn on the top outside edge. Even still has the middle cover. I'm only in Cookridge if you are interested.

Nigel

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Nigel

Yeah, nice one, you can't have too many S3 steering wheels the wife tells me!

Mail me direct matey, I'm Thackley & work in & around Leeds!

I'm sure we can come to some arrangment that involves alcohol!

-- Subaru WRX (The Bitch)

Series 3 Landrover 88" (Albert)

"If you tolerate this then your children will be next"

Reply to
Nige

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