In september I bought my Range Rover, a new and exciting toy to play with!
Get started straight away, at 23:30 or so, take those nasty bullbars off.
Look at that engine, 3.5L V8!
Time to inspect the rusted areas, not looking so good, but I've seen worse...
Oh dear, this needs cleaning before it goes back on!
Doesn't that look much better
Oh and the intake manifold surfaces as well...
Right, I've had the range rover for a month and not a lot of progress...
Organise the bolts, see what I need to order... quite a lot actually!
This is before the cleaning and red oxide process, its mostly surface rust!
First part of welding and some red oxide primer.
That rusty patch at top of wheel arch lets water through, probably what caused the wheel arch to rust
Slow progress, bottom of the goal posts were rotten
Comparison of the other side
Other side is now solid
Bottom of the goal posts now sorted
Got hold of a new bumper, stripped, welded, red oxide primered and painted black!
Looks like I had better get started on that engine!
The lengths I go to, the things I do for fun, bloody rain!
Inlet manifold and rocker covers on...
Ram housing, fuel rail, pressure regulator, over-run switch and injectors...
Engine finally complete, hoses in place. Won't start! Getting another ECU...
All the lights work though.
Yep, this sill definitely needs replacing!
Sill cut out and floor taken back to good metal. You can see the accelerator pedal!
Outriggers cleaned, red oxide and black chassis paint...
Welding the mounts to the new sill. 100*60*1400mm 3mm thick steel box section. SOLID!
New sill in place.
Bottom of B pillar fabricated and welded.
Rear wheel arch and new floor rebuilt. I spilt the primer everywhere!
Sill is starting to take place
A pillar rebuilt
ECU and seat mount in
All coated in red oxide
Then I painted it all black and put fitted the doors, the seals and some trim.
I'm quite pleased with the results, horrible to think what it was previously like...
Engine still doesn't start, compression tests did not go well. Engine out and to be rebuilt
Started work on the front wings and lightboxes...
This does NOT look happy
Had to rebuild the front of the wings
Everything looks better after a clean and a coat of paint
Then it all gets put back together, time for the other side
Until something like this happens, when you lean on the wing and it shears from the bulkhead...
Had enough and removed the entire wing and lightbox in one go.
Rebuild the bottom of the lightbox
I took off the bottom of the light box and LOST it!!! I think it went to the tip in the scrap metal pile. DOH! :evil: So I made a new one! Crude, but its okay.
Yay rebuilt
Then it was onto the inner wing... required EIGHT patches! Eurgh, next time I'm going to get complete parts from YRM. This was a PAIN to do!!!
This was the area that had to be cut out for the suspension turrets:
Ooops
Then I pressure washed and left to dry in the sun...
Then took these abominations off... Anyone want a 2" lift (shocks and springs) and stupid turrets for a RRC? Might clean them up and put them on ebay for a couple of pennies, let some other monkey have them.
Then a test fit!
Oh and a painted chassis
What? Are you from the future?
Awful patch to the horizontal box and side of bulkhead for the wing, these were held on with silicon!!
Final patch to the off side wheel arch
Bumper was interesting, had to cut out the mounts, weld in new ones and replace all of it.
It was a bit messy on the ends
Ahhhhh!
Up on stands ready for the next bits
What a nice lack of rust! I think I'll get some of that high impact stuff, stop the stone chips screwing everything up
Final bit I am REALLY pleased with, I have spent the last 10 months battling with the tailgate to try and get it open. If it actually closed then that would be great. But to get it open I would have to resort to sticking a screwdriver in the latch! Not any more!
First we have to take the old ones off
Then we try and fit new parts, and then we find that the holes for the bolts haven't been drilled properly... Oh well.
Then once the holes have been drilled out, we fit new parts! Yay!
Then the back end needs doing...
And I took the bottom discs that hold the rear springs..... and find the mounts on the axle have holes in them. I was NOT expecting this... I probably should have though. Oh well, got the welder out and repaired it.
Old parts
And all fitted
And finally, sitting on standard suspension feels good! Front end is high due to no engine...
