Offroad-Express

Sadam_Husain wrote:HEI= High Energy Ignition
Theres one on my truck and I'd never go back to mucking around with points again, the coil mounts into the top of the cap

.....and dont ever get yourself between a lead and earth... :fire:

Good to see another lives again!
Should of gone with Sadam's idea with a HEI I got one in my rover and they dont mind the water

mercutio wrote:what are the chances of having it ready for the BBQ

Bugger all - it's taken me over 2yrs to get here!!!!!!!!!
(is that even longer than Nibby?)

wopass wrote:kewl ..... for a rover

chur

Holy heck.....another nearly 12 months have gone ny with almost no work done on the 90 but yesterday and today were spent building a winch bar....

So for those who have forgotten....at the last installment it looked like


So here the winch is first monted up and being the style that it is .... the first 2 mounting bolts are the rear...these are atached to a piece of 45mmx5mm angle welded to the front crossmember. (sorry abou the lack of pic I only had my phone & I can't see a way to access that on the web!!)



OK so here you can see the cradle & sides mounted & the start of the bars (this was this morning when I brough the real camera along...)



Quick jump ahead to all the fab work done & primed up & hooks test fitted.



On this one you can just about make out the rather complex mounting system....4 holes on the front attach to the front of the winch & fairlead also attaches to this. Then 2 bolts down thru each chassis rail & 1 thru from the side....



All painted up & spots attached......just needed to add the hooks....



And a terrible picture to finish.......

whats the go with the pictures? i can only see the first one in that post.

whats the go with the pictures? i can only see the first one in that post.

Sorry ..... sorted it

you must have #1 spot for unfinished project furgus good to see your getting back into her though. Looking

turoa wrote:you must have #1 spot for unfinished project furgus good to see your getting back into her though. Looking

Yeah I know........scary just how slow I can be.....

Nice work Furgus, loving the number plate

turoa wrote:you must have #1 spot for unfinished project furgus good to see your getting back into her though. Looking

Comming from you!? lol

lilpigzuk wrote:Nice work Furgus, loving the number plate

I dont get it?

nice bar furgus!!!!

mroffroader wrote:

lilpigzuk wrote:Nice work Furgus, loving the number plate

I dont get it?

I'll give you a hint.....I'm a dentist......

Furgus wrote:

mroffroader wrote:

lilpigzuk wrote:Nice work Furgus, loving the number plate

I dont get it?

I'll give you a hint.....I'm a dentist......

Hmmm.....
Not sure if I get it either.
Lets try:
Tooth Dirty See Me???

2 thirty = tooth hurty
cme = see me

Well seeing as I finally got it home I thought I'd better do something with it........so I thought I'd start at the back. The tailgate that I'd got, when I swapped the Station Wagon for the Truck Cab, had rather dodgy looking struts, they'd obviously been broken & rather badly welded back up.





So I pulled a tailgate off an old S2 & guess what....the struts are identical (well actually the whole tailgate is identical! - you gotta love Landies 25 yrs difference & still the same parts!). I also added the fittings to hold it up.



That was last night, tonight I looked at some of the electrics, first up I wired up the spotties, most of the wiring was already in place so just a case of hooking it up. Then time to look at why the horn & indicators weren't working. Obvious really ....... the fuses were the first place to look & whilst the fuses were OK the connectors were not, so a bit of emery paper & all is good, except for the rear left.........that was also full of water and corroded so was also cleaned up for now but needs replacing........LED's would be nice!!!!!

That's all for now folks.......

HOLY CRAP

A YEAR AND A HALF AFTER THE LAST POST, ITS ALIVE




4.5 years so far

you have to win the longest build by far

4.5 years - that's a _real_ project

Furgus wrote:I definately have a time target - bubs is due on Sept 13th (2005) so having it all by then is the target. Biggest PITA will be the certification etc.

Go you good thing

Now that Nibbys Fawty is Rollin , I think the trophy for longest build thread on ORE goes to Furgus

Must be time for an update , or at least a photo of it sitting neglected in the shed .

UBZ wrote:Now that Nibbys Fawty is Rollin , I think the trophy for longest build thread on ORE goes to Furgus

Must be time for an update , or at least a photo of it sitting neglected in the shed .

Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 7:45 pm

Well the good news is I finally have got it back in my own shed, after having stored it at the neighbors since we moved house, I even had a bit of a poke around at it on Sunday but decided to waste my time trying to fit a winchbar onto the 130 instead