Workshop Manuals available?

[Clark Kent]

Still waiting patiently here for the email.........

Cheers
Steve

It's teaching you patience for when you do get a login

 

[Rok_Dr]

It's teaching you patience for when you do get a login

In the meantime I'm actually getting serious about home renovations. Its only taken 20 years..........

 

[Clark Kent]

In the meantime I'm actually getting serious about home renovations. Its only taken 20 years..........

This has sat waiting for my attention for 12 years so I guess 20 years for a house is about right

1977 FJ40. Mostly unmodified.
Posted just for you @Jean Mercier!

 

[NQ94]

This has sat waiting for my attention for 12 years so I guess 20 years for a house is about right

1977 FJ40. Mostly unmodified.
Posted just for you @Jean Mercier!

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The shed statue will look good restored to original.

 

[Krabby]

This has sat waiting for my attention for 12 years so I guess 20 years for a house is about right

1977 FJ40. Mostly unmodified.
Posted just for you @Jean Mercier!

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I take it rust isn't really an issue in Oz?

 

[ECrider]

I take it rust isn't really an issue in Oz?

Clark Kent appears to have kept that at bay with a protective layer of dust.

 

[Krabby]

Clark Kent appears to have kept that at bay with a protective layer of dust.

My 62 Land Rover used oil as a protectant. Factory feature - oil just came out all over the place with regularity. English ingenuity at its finest.

 

[DenisM]

Land Rovers do not leak oil... they mark their territory

 

[255/85]

This has sat waiting for my attention for 12 years so I guess 20 years for a house is about right

1977 FJ40. Mostly unmodified.
Posted just for you @Jean Mercier!

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Spent the last couple of weeks under a '78. I should be there now but, you know, forum duty calls.

Still waiting for access to the manual.

 

[FlyersFan76]

My 62 Land Rover used oil as a protectant. Factory feature - oil just came out all over the place with regularity. English ingenuity at its finest.

If there is no oil under it than there is no oil in it.

 

[Krabby]

If there is no oil under it than there is no oil in it.

Exactly!

 

[Tazzieman]

I take it rust isn't really an issue in Oz?

I restored a '73 LR utility that had sat in the bush, in the lea of our rainy mountain for 19 years.
The only rust was in the rear X member where mud had accumulated, before it was parked.
Oh and the brake drums. Very rusty!

 

[Tazzieman]

And we all know how tough Peugeots are, don't we?
Legendary French engineering.
I'd have one.
And as we said at school :
"Don't let your dingle dangel dangle in the dirt
Put it in your pocket where it won"t get hurt!"

Classic Automobiles

Peugeot Break 4X4 Dangel Nearly all of the 505 Dangels were produced, sent to North Africa. This particular Dangel was sent to the French Embassy in Tripoli to be used in the Leptis Magna...

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[Logsplitter]

Tough as old boots as these beauties show. From Senegal and Guinea
They were quite popular in the U.K. to.

 

[TheDocAUS]

Tough as old boots as these beauties show. From Senegal and Guinea
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They may have slightly overloaded that roof rack!

 

[Logsplitter]

They may have slightly overloaded that roof rack!

Most of them effectively have no suspension as so many leaf springs packed in there or alternatively blocks of wood jammed in there so that suspension can’t sag.

 

[Clark Kent]

I take it rust isn't really an issue in Oz?

Clark Kent appears to have kept that at bay with a protective layer of dust.

We're not immune from rust but it's more of a feature in old cars that spent their life on or near the coast. We don't salt the roads in winter so that's not an issue.
This example spent its working life as a Government vehicle doing dry forestry work. It was bought at a disposal auction by an old guy who lived on an island in Moreton Bay near Brisbane, Qld. He parked it under his high set house and used it to drag his trailer boat less than a mile to the boat ramp a few times a week for a couple of years until his health failed. The island salt exposure caused some rust in the typical 40 series panel pockets and the roof gutter/drip rail is rotten. The frame is very clean. I bought it from a guy who bought it sight unseen from the old guy's estate sale. He was going to use it as a parts donor for his other 40 and 45 series projects but when it was delivered to him he decided it was too good to strip so he sold it on. It was still registered and I drove it home 400km (240 miles). It drove well.

PS: It's not dust. It's a maintenance free organic wrap!