Been busy

not much to report but I did order up some springs and shocks should be here by thanksgiving.

double fronts, triple backs, old man emu shocks, bushings and shackle kit

ebay rocks

Sometimes lowball bids on ebay come through. picked up what they say is a rare(isn't everything for sale on ebay rare?) body piece to block the sun.

Doesn't look too bad. I'll have to sand it down this weekend

window rails/seals

the windows rails were pretty much taped on with ducttape so I picked up new tracks and seals and put them in the drivers windows. Nice tight fit.. No pics of this but here is one with the window off. I can see this being the prefered summer setup.

Lucas ......

No pics today but I did do work.. I did more wiring this week. Replaced the battery cables, added a grounding strap from the starter to the frame, replaced the cable going to between the ignition and the starter. Still having problems with the starter.. I hit the start button and nothing. I didpull the battery and ran cables from another battery to the rover system and it fires right up. I put the battery on the charger for the night.

Replaced the speedo cable and the high low swich which was rotted out. I also found a split wire in the rats nest of wires in the dash it was part ofthe headlight circuit. Headlights are now working. Also put in Arnes wire junction and removed the voltage regulator that I wasn't useing any longer.

a few things I need to get to: at some point a horn was wired in using what looks like an old lamp cord. some of this was also used fora few other circuits. I need to find some sheathing to run some new wires and clean up some that I ran from the alternator.

I also need to replace a bunch of bulbs.

form again

put a few more supports under the plywood just to make sure. I think I can park a sherman tank on top now with no issues but best to be safe. Also got some screening and put it over the brick holes so I don't waste 4 bags down that walls. Lowes had 50lb bags on sale for 1.23.. shit for that price i'm going to build a pyramid.

cleaning up the front

Popped off the front bumper and put on the new. 2 of the 4 bolts snapped the other 2 are pretty eaten up so I'll pick more up tomorrow. also took off the front panel under the headlights and cleaned up the one metal body panel.

Ummmm

Shiny new parts. I only needed the starter switch but once I got on the phone with the guy we found all kinds of other things I had to have. I also got a great wire junction that Arne made but i'm too lazy to dig it out and take a pic tonight.. have to wait until the weekend to see that.

less paint

Took off a bit more paint. Going to have to do more research and test out some paint soon

starter button

So the starter button is pretty intermittent. I yanked it out and tested it with a meter and about every 4th o5 5thpress would make a good connections. A new one should be here this week along with a few other pieces including a front bumper.. Still need tires


Also built up a form to pour the top forthe pizza oven base. might be overkill

alternator

bypassed the voltage regulator (VR) but I need to create a wiring junction box or just pull out the regulator and use its connections. everything seems to use the VR as a connection. Once I bypassed it the amp meter didn't show anything but checked it with a meter and all is well. I'll pull the VR out later and take a look at what I can do or maybe just search out some other way to do it.





Got the oven base done today and will build up a form so I can pour the top later this week.

Hey Dave.... wanna help pour concrete? ;)

second post today ;)

yep 2 in one day.. The generator needed to be replaced or rebuilt because of bad bearings. I got a couple of alternators from and a bracket to mount them close to a month ago but didn't do anything with them. Had a chance today to put in the bracket and the alternator.

Still need to do a bit of wiring. I used the wiring from the generator which went to the voltage regulator then to the battery. Since the Alternator has a built in voltage regulator I want to skip the Lucas unit.
I also brushed on a bit more paint remover and took off acouple layers of paint.. There is a bit of clay at the bottom of the passenger door. I need to sand that off to see whats underit. a new door skin is only about $25 so I may just pick that up.

I sanded the drivers door

Yeah I know.. its been a while. I got sidetracked on tiling one of the rooms in the basement. I'm done with that now but i'm also in the middle of building up a base for my pizza oven.

I did do a bit more stripping on the front quarters

Still going

Been on vacation for a week but I'm still working on it. Got another quarter stripped last night and got a bracket in so I can mount an alternator. Going to wire that up and install it this weekend so I can do away with the old generator.

Solid Ground

The starter still didn't want to turn over without jumping the battery. I left the rover battery on the charger all night and it was reading full but still nothing. I went through and cleaned all the connections from battery to ground then battery to junction to starter. There was a bunch of corrosion which cleaned up easily then the connection to the starter didn't have a lock washer so was a bit loose. tightened everything up and right away the few panel lights glowed brighter and it fires right up. Thanks Arne now buy that FJ60

I also cleaned off the crud from underneath the hood and primed and painted it. Also did the grill piece

Sanded the back quarter down over the weekend.

The Roof

Had some time today so I polished out the roof. Ran out of the billet polish and had to switch to mothers aluminum and it didn't work quite as well but I'll get some for this weekend and finish up. You can see the front left is much cleaner than the rest. I plan on taking it off and clear coating itand probably painting the lower section

negative ground

ok I can't figure out how to edit that last post but I also swapped the rover over to negative ground from positive. Not much to do. Swapped the connections on the coil and the amp meter. swapped cables on the battery. I also got some brakets to mount a GM Alternator as the Rover Generator is pretty weak. I'll work on that after I get the clutch bled and the rear brakes done.

cluch slave

tried to bleed the clutch slave today also. bad news. bleeder valve snapped right off. I was using a shorty wrench as that was all that would fit in the spot but it cracked. Not sure if I'll easy out it or just get a new slave

tune up

Swapped out plugs, points, condensor, wires and coil the old gear was wasted.

I also listened to arne and tried to polish out part of the aluminum.. Looks awesome. I'm going to try to seperate the top portion of the roof from the rest and polish it out next weekend. I'll need a pile of mothers polish but I like the look

Been off on business for a couple weeks in Beijing so I haven't done anything. This weekend I got back on it. replaced the left front brake cylinder and the rear right. Waiting on brake shoes (on back order) until next weekend as the right rear break shoe was soaked in fluid. I replaced the oil seals so all looks good now.

Removing the old paint

So while i'm waiting to get the new brake piston I decided to try something posted to another Rover list. It said removing the paint was easy if you picked up some Stripeeze from Lowes. I found something similar in my garage from another project and tried it. Seems to work pretty well although I may need to run through the process a couple times. The panels are all aluminum and clean up really well.

Antiluce??

Some interesting fasteners on the Rover. I'll post some as I get pics of them. This one is called an Antiluce and holds up the back tailgate.

Bleeding the brakes

Bled the brakes yesterday hoping I could take it for a quick spin around the block. Started on the left front and it wouldn't bleed.. I thought maybe something up stream was bad so I started from the master cylinder and went forward. Everything was great up to the bleeding nipple. the ball underneath it was fused to the cylinder. A new one is on its way.

After diving today I had to try to get the Rover going. I realized the Schucks sold me the battery but they didn't have a charge on it.... so I jumped it from my pilot. Got the motor turning over right away but it wouldn't fire. Pulled the plugs and they were pretty damaged so I ran down and got some new ones. OH Note.. another awesome feature.. The hood was causing me issues when changing the plugs and working on the engine.. so the Rover has pins on the hood that allow you to pull it to the drivers side and remove it ... Put the plugs in and sprayed the carb with gas and it fired right up only to die when the fuel ran out. .. now I took a look at the fuel pump thinking that maybe it wasn't working and notice its the old style glass bowl I took that out and empied it ..there wasn't any water in it only a bit a old garp but it was on the bottom so no issues. I then started looking around and realized that glass bowl wasn't filling so I started looking around and realized that under the drivers seat there is a valve that swaps between off and the multiple tanks ( I think I only have the one but I have to look) After playing with it for a while I figured out which way to turn it for the tank I do have and fired the engine up.. runs nice. its much quieter than I figured. I have the battery on the charger tonight and tomorrow its time to bleed the brakes. Dave why didn't you buy that cool bleeder... ;)

Awesome I thought Arne was just messing with me when he said the top was aluminum but it really is. The rover also has all these amazing pieces..I'll grab pics of them tomorrow. Anyway I got it .... Couldn't have done it without Arne and Dave. We couldn't get it running or even to turn over when we went to get it so we had to do a bunch of pushing and pull it up on the trailer with a come-a-long unloading was even more interesting.

The Start

Ok this is all Arnes fault. He made me load the Google reader to monitor craigs list. If not for that tool I probably would never have wandered into the 1960 Rover Series II ad.

Going to pick it up tomorrow so I'll post more then. Needs work but has all original parts and a spare rebuilt tranny ready to go in.