LP2a SAR restoration

[Phillip]

Keith Hudson came down to visit over the long weekend for a holiday and to impart his knowledge on pulling apart the suspension.

I helped to run a 'Fun Run' for the Mens Resource Centre on Australia Day and worked on Friday, so it did not turn into a long frenzy of carrier restoration so we only got to tackle the suspension late on Saturday afternoon.

The bogies on my carrier were of some random scrap carrier, so I chose to tackle the bodgies of the spare carrier which is known to come from drier climes.

Our first problems arrived in taking the nuts off the axles, as the first axles started to spin. I found the big spanner and stopped the axle from turning and with the aid of a long bar, got the nuts off.

Expecting to be swinging on the sledge hammer to bash the axles out over a few hours, I could tell that Keith was almost in tears as each axle easily came out the way the they are supposed to.

With some time left, we tackled removing the springs. I must admit that this was a job I was not planning on doing just yet as after listening to all the horror stories, I was anticipating much colourful language.

So imagine my surprise when, about an hour after pulling the bogies into the shed, we had them all in pieces. The hardest part was actually removing the nuts fom the rods and we only had to cut one rod (and only then because I was impatient).

A big thanks to Keith for imparting your knowledge and manpower

[Ron Pier]

I did puzzle over your pictures until I saw your location......Now I get it Ron

[Phillip]

Thanks Ron,

If experiencing difficulty in viewing, remove head from shoulders and re-attach at the desired angle.

Strange - photos are the right way up on the iPad but get rotated when posted.

It's all related software so probably connected to the same glitch that enables us antipodeans to pay more than those of you in the Northern hemisphere for the same products through iTunes

[Dave Mills]

Had the same problem; are you using an Apple IPad? If so, once photo goes on MLU it rotates it 180 deg. Problem solved, take photo with mobile send photos to self, save and then upload onto MLU.
Dave.

[Phillip]

Cheers Dave,

Its a little frustrating. My normal process is to take the photos on the iphone, email them to my self, save them to the iPad, then attaching them. Sometimes they still rotate. Arrrrrgggh

Today's efforts - Yep you are right - it rotates everything 180 degrees. I rotated the last photo in the the picture gallery from the right way up to - the right way up and it came out the right way when attached. I suspect there is a setting in my phone that locks the rotation? I'll continue the experiment.

Today's progress, I picked up a 1 1/8" rattle gun socket, got home early, wife and kids were out so I went down the shed to de-stress. Removed the rear bogie rod nuts, axle, wheel and springs. The other side is frozen, so expecting a little more resistance when I get to it.

[Phillip]

With thanks to Lyn for information on the conduit threads, it did not take long to find both dies on the net. These arrived on Friday but I did not have the right sized die holder. I borrowed a 2" holder and after a few minutes on the lathe was in business.

The conduit out to the tail lights is now complete. I did have this going through the gap above the gearbox, but fortunately checked my original photos and realised it goes behind the seat back. I note the cleaver use of joiners in the original conduit to let you instal it in sections and feed the wire through as you go.

Only a few more broken bolts to remove and a bit of panel beating and it's off to the sandblasters. Yay.

And I thînk I've sorted out this photo rotation business.....

Nope, they still randomly rotate

[Matt Stephenson]

Hi Phillip,

Your making great progress there. Looking forward to seeing your hull sandblasted and painted. Great work on the conduit too. Seeing how you've done the conduit will help me when I finally get around to doing the conduit in mine. Following this with great interest.