Offroad-Express

Had this old toy land in my lap... figured I'd get it running so I've got a hack to get dragged round in


Always had a soft spot for them.... there is something about the no frills feel of a truck that was built to be offroad
Has been a long time since I play'd with one of these and this one is rough the doors are suffering from rust passngers side glass section is held on with a couple of rivited on plates as the bolt mounts have rusted out, hinges on both doors are rusting out... leaking oil everywhere, yea I know thats how you know they are full but this is a bit more than that , Hand brake has no drum, bull bar's are buckled and the motor has a blown frost plug behind the fuel pump oh and the wiring yea hmmmm

On the plus side motor runs and is an LD28 (if you call a desiel a plus side )

Plans are.... cheap got to pay my tax bill, so I'm not going to spend any money on it
Start with some new second hand seats from a mates skyline so my ass is sort of anchored... I can have em for free since he's a good mate and they are moldy
bend the bumper out and reinforce it and mount some recovery points front and rear
I'll fix the motor and run it for a bit...


but I'm owed a commy (another favor ) got a couple of RR gearbox's that no one wants that are pretty easy to divorce... a bit of work and it'll fit behind the commy trans
Also got a rear axle from an old RR that I competition prep'd that no body wants and a ARB for it that I was sitting on...
This gives me some power and a good rear end
Looking at it I could push the rear back 5" link the rear cut the leaves and mount em 1/4 elliptical throw some fiddles on

This still leaves the front end they used to brake but I can't remember how the broke
Any suggestions ??

You sick bastard

rokhound wrote:You sick bastard

I second that

Just deleted your number out of my phone

You have to keep the bonnet scoop

lilpigzuk wrote:You have to keep the bonnet scoop

Best bit of it (and the most expensive part too I'd wager).

Ha ha ha

yep, had a quick look today, definitely a bit rough, and he is right, he does have a soft spot, its called his head!!!!!!!!

taking wagers on how long it will take Mr De-Ranged (name well earned ) to get it ready to take out in the bush.

I reckon about 6 years, any advances on that???????

1000dollamitzy wrote:yep, had a quick look today, definitely a bit rough, and he is right, he does have a soft spot, its called his head!!!!!!!!

taking wagers on how long it will take Mr De-Ranged (name well earned ) to get it ready to take out in the bush.

I reckon about 6 years, any advances on that???????

6 years? I take it this is a quick fix up jobbie.

6 years? I take it this is a quick fix up jobbie.

Yep, quick fixup.......equals 6 years.......

I think i have been hanging around the shed too much

Come on I do finish projects.... I've finished alot of other peoples toys....

And this isn't a project its a thrasher till the lada is sorted

De-Ranged wrote::lol: Come on I do finish projects.... I've finished alot of other peoples toys....

And this isn't a project its a thrasher till the lada is sorted

A thrasher till the lada is finished should be thrashable haha.

De-Ranged wrote::lol: Come on I do finish projects.... I've finished alot of other peoples toys....

And this isn't a project its a thrasher till the lada is sorted

I'm getting the need for a cold beer. Must be a slogan triggering the desire.

A cold Tui! Yeahright

And this isn't a project its a thrasher till the lada is sorted

Come on Reece be realistic.................... You now own a Landy (which, by some absolute freak of nature still goes Its not the motor Im meaning ) You aint going to ever have time to work on the Lada again.

Come on guys I thought you'd be impressed I'd steeped up from a lada to a Landy

De-Ranged wrote:Come on guys I thought you'd be impressed I'd steeped up from a lada to a Landy

You do seem to have a thing for "underdogs".

Got a lad in the shed for some work experience.... ran out of jobs I could leave him to do while I problem solved on Nobbers truck, so to give him something to entertain himself.... strip the windscreen out of the landy so I can patch some rust.... this is the result




All so we can get at this


The interesting challange will be to see how much help he needs to get it all back together

He only had to undo half a dozen bolts to get to this stage

He only had to undo half a dozen bolts to get to this stage

Nah, he just leaned on the A pillar and it all fell off

A wee update

Cleaned up Chris's work and patched the rust



Keeping with the $0 cost here the steel I used for the patch



Now chris has to put it back together....

De-Ranged wrote:A wee update

Cleaned up Chris's work and patched the rust

Keeping with the $0 cost here the steel I used for the patch

Now chris has to put it back together....

British steel for a British vehicle ......

The floor was rusted out where the mud was sitting on a outrigger brace... so pulled the guard off so I could remove the brace... also gives me a chance to hammer out the fender


That old rangie bonnet is going to get a caining fixing this lot....

Almost sorted the rust and all the mounting holes in the bulkhead (mounting holes are easy as, a brass block held on the other side and weld up the hole )


Just got the bottom end on the out rigger to sort, the rust is bad enough I'll have to cut the bottom out and and rebuild the inner support and the outer skin
Just got to make the brace to hold the bulkhead while I do it.....

Hey anyone got a spare hinge mounting bolt and the spring clip/nut... the lowest one was rusted solid and had to be drilled out

Had an interesting day got to look at a series 2 110 with a blown motor that could make a good camper tow wagon.... keep telling myself I need to get rid of stuff not get more

Through the haz of painkillers I managed to work out how to sort things.... got a choice at the moment I'm functional on the blastard pills but the brain don't want to hold things or I'm not able to do anything.... hope the doc's going to have an answer

Right heres what I came up with well part of it going to have to join some more pipe (using up the pipe from the front bumper )

Hopefully more to come tomorrow.... well depending on how sore I am after the MRI and the drive to and from hastings

MRI won't hurt ya, it will just get in your head, they make a hell racket.
Take the tramadol with a mouth full of fizzy (coke) (it seems to get it working faster )

After two years on the stuff i second that. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The MRI dosn't concern me this time my back has decided to not like being bent depending on what the seat is like it can be as little as a few min's before the pain burns through the pain killers
It's that bad I've made one very painfull decision, I'm selling up the business, that means there is going to be alot of stuff up for sale including the lada

Oh and you want no pain have tramadol with a woody... got a big telling off by a pain specialist last night for that one

Got a bit done on the old girl this afternoon

Braced up the top of the bulkhead brace


and managed to get the rest of the guard bar stitched together... made by joining the bits from the bumper


still got to sort the end down at the chassis and mount the fender onto it

Got given some used 32nom was a neighboring business's sign frame... unfortunatly he went under and didn't want it so gave it to me, might even be enough to do me a wee exo

Todays efforts

Finished the front mount for the bar, had to add a few speed holes to go with the performance engineering from land rover


With it done I had to test it to see how much it'll flex.... didn't move at all with the wheel off the ground


With that done I sorted the guard.... a simple job, but I managed to stuff up part of it head doesn't seem to be firing right... I'm blaming the painkillers at the end of the day its not bad enough I'll worry, its a landy

Starting to take shape,

And youll be happy to know its got about the same flex as my terrano