Rocky Rover 1955 Series 1

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Re: Rocky Rover 1955 Series 1

Postby DieselBoy » Sun Mar 29, 2015 8:03 pm

Grapevine Track in 1985ish :D :D

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Pretty sure the red L.R is the Springrice's machine.
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Re: Rocky Rover 1955 Series 1

Postby DieselBoy » Sun Mar 29, 2015 8:13 pm

Maratoto, in the Wires Loop late 1980's :twisted: :twisted:

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The green L.R in the last photo is called Loretta. Some will remember it/them :D :D
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Re: Rocky Rover 1955 Series 1

Postby DieselBoy » Sun Mar 29, 2015 8:20 pm

Taumatatotara :D :D

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Re: Rocky Rover 1955 Series 1

Postby DieselBoy » Sun Mar 29, 2015 8:38 pm

Waitapheta in the mid 1990s. Longest Turfor hand winch mission ever :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Re: Rocky Rover 1955 Series 1

Postby DieselBoy » Sun Mar 29, 2015 8:42 pm

42 Traverse :D :D

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The S3 L.R in the last photo is called Peaches. The heart of Peaches along with the PTO and winch lives on in Dave.

This is Dave :wink: :wink:

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Dave lives in Australia and is still running the original engine from Peaches. Dave has been EVERYWHERE :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:
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Re: Rocky Rover 1955 Series 1

Postby DieselBoy » Sun Mar 29, 2015 8:46 pm

Some nostalgia :D

The new toy in 1984:

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Me, my brother and Mum :lol: :lol: :lol:

An early trip, not sure where though?? Maybe Nevisville??

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Re: Rocky Rover 1955 Series 1

Postby DieselBoy » Sun Mar 29, 2015 9:48 pm

Anyways, i painted the tub this weekend :D

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Looks ok for a back yard special :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Re: Rocky Rover 1955 Series 1

Postby DieselBoy » Sun Mar 29, 2015 9:59 pm

Decided too have a crack at fixing the seat box. Roped Daniel in to try some alloy tig welding on it :mrgreen: :mrgreen:


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It should do the job. Radiator panel next up :lol: :lol:

In case you were wondering :wink: :wink:

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Re: Rocky Rover 1955 Series 1

Postby DefenderSte » Thu Apr 02, 2015 6:06 am

DieselBoy wrote:Decided too have a crack at fixing the seat box. Roped Daniel in to try some alloy tig welding on it :mrgreen: :mrgreen:


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It should do the job. Radiator panel next up :lol: :lol:

In case you were wondering :wink: :wink:

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Is that an Escort Cossie shell in the background...??

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Re: Rocky Rover 1955 Series 1

Postby DieselBoy » Thu Apr 02, 2015 6:59 am

DefenderSte wrote:
DieselBoy wrote:Decided too have a crack at fixing the seat box. Roped Daniel in to try some alloy tig welding on it :mrgreen: :mrgreen:


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It should do the job. Radiator panel next up :lol: :lol:

In case you were wondering :wink: :wink:

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Yeah, Dans next project :D


Is that an Escort Cossie shell in the background...??
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Re: Rocky Rover 1955 Series 1

Postby Mehrts » Thu Apr 02, 2015 10:55 am

Those older photos are awesome! Loving your work too, keep it up 8)
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Re: Rocky Rover 1955 Series 1

Postby Big » Thu Apr 02, 2015 4:12 pm

Mehrts wrote:Those older photos are awesome! Loving your work too, keep it up 8)

ditto.. lots of cool memories :wink:

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Re: Rocky Rover 1955 Series 1

Postby DieselBoy » Sat Apr 18, 2015 11:25 am

Bit of a landmark moment last night, engine back in :D :D

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The tubs also just sitting there for safe keeping out of harms way :lol: :lol:

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Many many more hours to spend still :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Re: Rocky Rover 1955 Series 1

Postby TJ101 » Sun May 03, 2015 3:04 am

Hi Dieselboy

Just spend a little time reading your 2 topics , this one on the S1, plus your 110... Boy have you got the Landrover bug BAD :lol: :D

Glad to see the end of the road with the S1,, Well done, getting there,,

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Re: Rocky Rover 1955 Series 1

Postby ToYoda » Sun Jan 10, 2016 10:29 pm

Wow just found this, awesome. You need to upload moms video of dad starting the engine...
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Re: Rocky Rover 1955 Series 1

Postby mercutio » Mon Jan 11, 2016 6:13 am

Pete also has a slight obsession with suzukis as well
my 4wd is not a truck

old mercedes never die but sometimes they do need some love

older cars are good,mercedes are better,older mercedes are the best

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Re: Rocky Rover 1955 Series 1

Postby Rusty » Fri Feb 05, 2016 8:13 am

Looking forward to seeing this done :D looks great!

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Re: Rocky Rover 1955 Series 1

Postby DieselBoy » Tue Mar 01, 2016 9:27 am

Rusty wrote:Looking forward to seeing this done :D looks great!


It's still getting love :) Brakes done, new(hand me down) tyres fitted engine electrics and dash working, some lights in the front sorta working.

But more painting and odds and ends to do still ;)
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Re: Rocky Rover 1955 Series 1

Postby DieselBoy » Mon Mar 21, 2016 7:18 pm

The other weekend it left the garage under its own power for the first time in 4 years.

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Re: Rocky Rover 1955 Series 1

Postby DieselBoy » Mon Mar 21, 2016 7:26 pm

That afternoon we got carried away and started fishing parts out of the depths of the shed to refit....

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Re: Rocky Rover 1955 Series 1

Postby DieselBoy » Mon Mar 21, 2016 7:35 pm

We have had the restored front fenders stashed away carefully, so with the exhaust valve clearances set (side valve engine), the time to fit them was now :)

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Re: Rocky Rover 1955 Series 1

Postby DieselBoy » Mon Mar 21, 2016 7:39 pm

To finish off the guards and hide some of my repairs, we adapted some S3 alloy guard tops to fit. They make good work benches too.
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Re: Rocky Rover 1955 Series 1

Postby DieselBoy » Mon Mar 21, 2016 7:58 pm

Time to sort out some of the minor issues, wrecked doors, tail gate that doesn't fit the new cross member, bent bonnet etc

This is the best I can do to give the doors another chance short of making a new skin for them. Maybe I'll do that on the next rebuild ;)

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So what your looking at, is two alloy doors that are quite damaged. Once alloy is damaged it doesn't come back into shape, it stretches and gets a spring to it.

So the experiment is to make a reinforcing plate to go in behind, and urethane it in place to take the spring out of the skin. Most use rivets to hold the reinforcing plate in place until the urethane sets. You them grind the heads off the rivets and job done.

In this case you see both sides of the door skin, so rivets weren't ideal. Tried self tapping screws as an experiment and seems to have worked out ok, the screws came out tonight and the plate stayed tight to the door skin :)

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Re: Rocky Rover 1955 Series 1

Postby DieselBoy » Mon Mar 21, 2016 8:08 pm

Dad on the strip disc taking the bonnet back to bare alloy. It's hopefully gonna be the blingest straightest panel of them all. Maybe haha

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And the bloody tailgate. Who knew huh :lol:
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Better tidy this up properly later on ;)

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Re: Rocky Rover 1955 Series 1

Postby DieselBoy » Mon Mar 21, 2016 8:20 pm

Slapped some flares on for WOF purposes. I kinda liked it better with out, but they are necessary :wink: :wink:

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It's been up and down the road an few times and the donor motor of dubious condition after sitting in a crate for 30 years seems to be getting better with each run and tweak :)
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Re: Rocky Rover 1955 Series 1

Postby UBZ » Mon Mar 21, 2016 9:22 pm

Yes :D
Mr T's grin must have been huge :D
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Re: Rocky Rover 1955 Series 1

Postby Rusty » Sun Mar 27, 2016 11:46 am

That's sensational. Top effort :)

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Re: Rocky Rover 1955 Series 1

Postby DieselBoy » Sat May 21, 2016 10:41 am

Doors :)
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Re: Rocky Rover 1955 Series 1

Postby DieselBoy » Sat May 21, 2016 10:45 am

They look ok on the inside too :D

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Re: Rocky Rover 1955 Series 1

Postby Rusty » Wed Jun 01, 2016 10:35 am

Great work!

Got myself a series 2 SWB that needs the same attention. Difficult to get the body off the chassis?

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