Wheel Arch refurb

There was a lot of muck and rust on the inside of the arches so I thought it would be good to give them a clean up
Date: 16/03/2014

 

Woden Floor

I know its late but here are the photos for fitting the wooden floor in the rear
Date:13/03/2014

Got an A-Bar from someone for free off gumtree which is lakka! just refurbishing the feet of it before attempting to weld on some proper brackets for it to fit the post 2002 air con config.
Date:13/03/2014

Potential Box Extension

Toying with the idea of extending the box, built this mock up of it to try decide

Date:01/03/2014

 

 

 

 

 

Tailgate Plate

Cleaned up the rear tailgate plate today, plan on putting a few coats of paint over to provide  proper seal for it.

Date:22/02/2014

 

Refurbished Rear Step

the rear step looked pretty tatty. Wired brushed it down, sandpapered it to bare metal then put on anti rust, primer and three layers of black plaint. also replaced the old rivets with new ones on the rubber.
Date:02/02/2014

RE-TRIMMED SEATS!

My birthday present was re trimmed seats. got them done in black suede and red stitching. the only problem was because we removed all the plastic trim when we took off the roof, the rear seats backs would slump to far back when someone sat on them. to fix this we took some solid black pvc pipe and drilled through them and cut them to size. after this the two rear seats fitted nicely.

The last two photos are our plan to put a bench at the back since the rear two folding seats cant fit due to the big roll cage planted in its place. although the plan isn't final, we're hoping to turn the space beneath the bench into a box for storage seen as the 90 has so little.

Rock sliders

We did the same process as we did to the rear cross member to the rock slider after we saw the results.

 FINAL PRODUCT

Rear Cross member rust

We decided to tackle the rear cross member because the rust was just irritating and was a good exercise.we used sand paper and wire brushes to first get off the surface rust. we then used a "rust buster" paint to convert and kill any more rust left over. we then  primed and painted it

 The final product, looks a thousand times better. there are photos of the rust earlier in the blog

Fitting the hood

while we were fitting the profile, our trimmer was making our hood. we already had a rear half of an SVX hood. it included the tailgate flap and side windows but not the front, which covers the driver.

The trimmer sourced us the same Mohair material and mocked up one for us. he used an existing completed svx hood as a stencil. the advantage of us doing it in two parts means we can choose how to join the two parts. instread of stitching them, we chose to connect by zip and this allows to turn our landy into a sexy bikini top in the summer, which would only cover the driver.

 Comparing thew two 

 Our hood 

 Guide hood

 on an SVX with wqindows and tail flap unzipped

 our custom, zip attached, bikini hood

 Fitment at the trimmer

Making Aluminium profile for SVX hood to fit on

the SVX came with a special aluminium proile on the sides to fit the hood which keeps the tension. the standard defender doesnt have this so we made our own. we used 6mm and 3mm aluminium to do this.

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