Getting the front bumper and wings off

This time was a little harder. With the help of "the bosses cub" . . Simon , we managed to get the front bumper off. This only happened after an hour of grinding every bolt in sight and pulling the buggers out with the vicegrips and anything else we could use.

The wings were a little harder to remove. We had to remove the mud gaurds first and then every single bolt from all different angles. The right side wing, we had to remove the airconditioning unit first, we did that by un screwing the bolts from the passenger seat floor. After that, everything else managed to fall off, next step is to break the engine and put in new seals!

The chassis doesnt look too bad, well probably just sand blast it, patch her up and hopefully get it galvanised . . seal it up for good!

Landy comes home

Itd only taken a week before I was back up to the farm with my money and a big six axle trailer thanks to a good buddy of ours! Wed decided to pull the jeep further back out of the field with the tractor and then pull it up on to the trailer with a pulley block. This had taken a bit of a while due to a lack of communication and no air in our tyres but before we knew it we were on our way back and within a couple o hours we were back in the country.

As soon as we got it back we filled the tyres with air (which actually worked) and then I spent about two hours power washing it inside and out. It took hours before wed got the battery but unfortunately even when we had the battery, the ignition was no good so we had to start the engine from under the hood. This also didnt work , the engine just kept turning over! After a while it was decided that wed tow the yolk behind the massey 135 and jam her into gear and hope for the best! This ofcourse had to be done with no brakes or clutch! It took three or four goes before some rumbles started coming out of the engine followed by mountains of smoke! she was working and running but wed only copped that there was no exhaust attached to the engine and the water was leaking from some pipe under the water pump.

we decided to tow it back and weld the exhaust which thanks to good ol Franky was 'only minor'. After that and the pull start, the series more or less started in one go!We decided to call it a day but by nine oclock that night there was four of us in the workshop trying to get the clutch and brakes going

I was in the jeep pumping the pedals while the boss was blowing out all the dust and muck from the hydraulics, within an hour the hydraulic had started pumping oil and then we closed it all up and connected her back up to the lines . . it took us another while to actually beat the pedal down to actually get the oil to reach the cluch, but after having two feet on the pedal, it didnt take us long

and heres the old massey that did the donkey work!

Introduction

Itd all started when I got on to this website and came across some some sixteen year old chap rebuilding a Landrover series 3 that hed luckily come across from a farmer friend of his, the project looked like a good bit of fun, and he was building it for his first car. I nearly coppied his way and rang a farmer friend o mine to see if he had any old land rovers, he told me to come up the next day and this is what I found.

Its an old 1978 series 3 and after seconds I knew I was going to buy it. It hadnt been started in seven years and apparently the reason they parked it up was because the engine was coming to the end of its time

I knew I was going to buy it even though the jeep looked in poor state to the common eye but after a small bit of negotiating we agreed on a price of €200. This included the jeeps papers and a jack which I thought was a damn good deal. Even after leaving only minutes, I already couldnt wait to start work on it

The tyres were flat but we still managed to pull it out of the muck hole it was in

heres the inside after we pulled all the sillage bags out!