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- Mon Sep 24, 2007 7:46 pm
- Forum: Member's Vehicles
- Topic: Corvette powered Defender
- Replies: 106
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After a quick trip to the auto factors this morning I set about the miriad of small jobs that still need sorting. I started with the vacuum pipe for the brake servo, obviously the servo fitting and the engine fitting are completely different sizes. I used the new servo pipe purchased at the auto fac...
- Sun Sep 23, 2007 6:27 pm
- Forum: Member's Vehicles
- Topic: Corvette powered Defender
- Replies: 106
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Finished off the radiator mounts first job, welding new lower mounts and modifying the upper mounts slightly to make sure the radiator is fully rubber mounted without touching the steel of the brackets. The top hose that Patrick had cobbled together for the old radiator was fine with the new one, as...
- Sun Sep 23, 2007 12:39 am
- Forum: Member's Vehicles
- Topic: Corvette powered Defender
- Replies: 106
- Views: 271062
Spent today tidying things up, got the speedo cable in then spent a few hours trying to mount the transfer box lever, which turned out to be a real bitch of a job. Had to modify the gear lever bracket so the transfer box lever wouldn't foul on it. Getting the tunnel back in with the gear lever brack...
- Sat Sep 22, 2007 12:46 am
- Forum: Member's Vehicles
- Topic: Corvette powered Defender
- Replies: 106
- Views: 271062
The new radiator arrived at last ! The oil cooler isn't ready yet but I went and got the radiator anyway. If it works half as well as it looks it should be just the thing... http://forum.yorkshireoffroadclub.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10002/normal_108_0898sm.jpg Managed to get the rad fitted into p...
- Fri Sep 21, 2007 12:38 am
- Forum: Member's Vehicles
- Topic: Corvette powered Defender
- Replies: 106
- Views: 271062
I think wrapping it might be an idea although I don't expect the air to be hanging around very long to get warm :) Managed to get the rear section of the exhaust sorted today including cutting out the old hole in the rear cross member, taking it from just over 2 inch to 3 inch diameter. Welded the p...
- Wed Sep 19, 2007 1:17 pm
- Forum: Member's Vehicles
- Topic: Corvette powered Defender
- Replies: 106
- Views: 271062
There's loads of room between the back of the engine and the bulkhead so for the moment the air filter will go in there. I'm fitting a wider tunnel in so the snorkel can be taken to the rear of the cab, at which point the air filter will be on top of the snorkel. The intake pipe can either go over t...
- Mon Sep 17, 2007 11:32 am
- Forum: Member's Vehicles
- Topic: Corvette powered Defender
- Replies: 106
- Views: 271062
Sunday didn't seem to last very long this week ! As usual didn't get everything done I wanted but did get some extra bits and pieces done. Finished bolting the Driver's side wing on first thing then set about bleeding the brakes, One of the bleed nipples on the OSF caliper was seized and my attempts...
- Sat Sep 15, 2007 8:33 pm
- Forum: Member's Vehicles
- Topic: Corvette powered Defender
- Replies: 106
- Views: 271062
Spent today sorting the wings out, cutting the holes out to suit the TD5 lights, installing the washer bottle and fitting the new lights. By the end of the day both wings were back on with the passenger side fully bolted on and the driver's side needing a few more bolts adding. Got the remaining man...
- Sat Sep 15, 2007 8:04 pm
- Forum: Member's Vehicles
- Topic: Corvette powered Defender
- Replies: 106
- Views: 271062
- Fri Sep 14, 2007 8:30 pm
- Forum: Member's Vehicles
- Topic: Corvette powered Defender
- Replies: 106
- Views: 271062
Not done the video yet... must get around to that ! Took part of yesterday and all today off work. Yesterday afternoon was spent making up exhaust heat shields to protect the gear change cable from radiated heat and re-routing some of the cables/wires to make sure they are well out of the way of any...
- Fri Sep 07, 2007 4:20 pm
- Forum: Member's Vehicles
- Topic: Corvette powered Defender
- Replies: 106
- Views: 271062
Just an update on this before I head off to Weardale for the weekend... Made some modifications to the ECU this morning in line with some discussions I'd been having on the megasquirt forums, added some capacitors to the crank and cam signal inputs and took the ECU over to Maddisons to see what effe...
- Mon Sep 03, 2007 5:46 pm
- Forum: Technical Info
- Topic: Installation of Plasma rope to winch drum
- Replies: 2
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You have an 8274 if I remember correctly ? If so, you don't use the crimp, just feed the end of the rope through the hole in the drum and either tie a knot in it or use a cable tie to form it into a loop, a lot easier to take the rope off again !. (there shouldn't be any real load on it anyway). If ...
- Mon Sep 03, 2007 12:12 am
- Forum: Member's Vehicles
- Topic: Corvette powered Defender
- Replies: 106
- Views: 271062
- Sat Sep 01, 2007 11:02 pm
- Forum: Member's Vehicles
- Topic: Corvette powered Defender
- Replies: 106
- Views: 271062
Had a productive day today, spent the first part of the morning working on the other LS1 Defender (extending the loom) and making sure it still runs while Patrick rearranged the power steering pipes on my motor. Lots of little jobs were finished off today, got myself a nice dual digital gauge from S...
- Tue Aug 28, 2007 9:46 am
- Forum: Member's Vehicles
- Topic: Corvette powered Defender
- Replies: 106
- Views: 271062
ready for weardale :?: It'll be a close run thing I expect but unless I can get some time off work before Weardale it's unlikely as there's only 1 weekend left before then. The radiator and oil cooler should be ready this week and I'd love to be able to fire it up at the weekend but even if it runs...