Ian

It's a shame the deck drive never turned up Richard, but it's good news about all your money being returned

Thanks mate, by the time she's all black she should be able to lurk in the shadows without being seen Thanks Iain, the wiring isn't too bad really. Most of it makes sense.... I need to get a wiring diagram for the wires that don't

Happy birthday Darmic, here's wishing you a good day

Happy birthday Henry, have a good day

A lot less mud than last year, great photo Mark

Looks like you both had a fun day in the woods... I bet the weather was a bit of a shock for Karl seeing as he had just got back from a holiday in warmer climates

That's good news Norm, I look forward to the vid of Billy running. I've never seen one in action. That's quite a selection of pullers

The near side exhaust is the correct one, the other side has a large pepper pot silencer!

Thanks Iain, glad you like the extra "silliness" in the vid... I wasn't sure how people would take to it.. The full size Nigel spends most of he's time sitting down, if the small bloke had a chair nothing would ever get done Before the engine could go back in there was a slight frame mod to do.. As the shock mounts had been moved up.. The strengthening bar between them also got moved up.. Engine in, thanks for your help today Rob should you be reading this. I just need to finish sorting out the rat's nest of a wiring loom! Yesterday all the front end parts had a session with some rattle cans. A spring looking good in black.. Well, it did look good until I noticed how much I had missed on the other side.. Spring can be a right pain to paint! The front end bolted back on.. The good thing with painting everything satin black is I can just spray over any pain chips without having to mask anything up

That looks a nice clean van Andrew, a tad of rust on one wing, but nice and clean.. What's the plans engine wise? Plenty of space to put something a bit bigger than the original

Happy birthday James, here's wishing you a great day

Yesterday was spent cleaning and painting the engine.. Once the radiator and mountings plus the carbs were off the engine looked a lot smaller.. And a lot cleaner after lots of time with wire brushes on a drill Parts like the fan shroud were very rusty.. But after a lot of cleaning, priming and top coating it looked good along with the radiator.. And the radiator/front engine mount thingy. The engine looks quite good too

A couple of D-200 vids for you guy's... Enjoy

Thanks Alan, yeah he doesn't normally move that fast.. I think he was only after my coffee You enjoy it Thanks Norm, getting small bloke working was the hard part.. Progress has been a tad slow, but MadTrax now has front shocks fitted.. All I had to do was chop an inch odd from the springs, change the top mounts on the shocks and move the shock mountings up a bit on the frame!

That's a great find Harry, looks like a very capable and fun machine I may well be the only one thinking like this but I prefer the look without the rear bodywork.. If it were mine I'd fit some arches and a panel to go under the seat rather than find the original bodywork... I think I just don't like the shape of it.. But that's just me

Thanks to Nigel I now have a nice pair of Spax adjustable coil over shocks... Shorten the springs a little bit and some new top mounts on the frame and they should work

You have to watch your head in Nigel's workshop, I keep walking in to red hanging things... Luckily for Nigel the bit's I walk into are already dry

The answer is.... Undoing the bolt Richard It's been a shocking few days.. Not just pulling the front shocks apart for cleaning and painting, but it's been shocking to see the state of them! One shock leaks and has a cracked collar which holds the base of the spring in place, the other does not leak but has the same busted collar.. Oh and the springs are slightly different heights! That would be new shocks needed then!!! Reeling from the state of the shocks I thought I would cheer myself up and have a look at the front brakes and hubs.. The front brakes didn't work but looking at them I'd guess it was more down to air in the system and bad adjustment than knackered brakes.. I will test the cylinders and adjusters before putting them back in.. Of course most parts were covered in mud and surface rust... Not any longer A few satin black parts about the place A random rear shock of unknown parentage that Nigel had sitting on a shelf.. If a second one can be found then that might be the front end sorted.. Oh, and a parcel containing 3 large green sheets turned up yesterday..... I'm sure they will come in handy

Thanks Joseph, please spread the word Most of yesterday was spent filming this, that and the other but I did find time to start cleaning the rear axle/swing arm... Here's just a small amount of the 14 year old mud that was stuck between the diff and the diff guard! The mess that was the inside of the diff guard.. Me thinks it maybe past it's best! The bolts holding the diff guard in place were very chewed up and no sockets or spanners would shift them.... Sometimes ye olde tools work best though A few parts arrived yesterday... Two upper ball joints, one lower and new swing arm bearings... Struggling to find a second lower ball joint though!

Thanks Iain, the suspension arm did need the strengthening for peace of mind if nothing else. Ahh, the next vid.... It's going to be entertaining for sure, a lot of extra camera work and editing.. Thanks Joseph for me, tell him to continue spreading the word Thanks Richard, yeah the subs on MooTube are a laugh.. They can't get it quite right Well the lower arms have had the treatment and are now a lot stronger too..

Morning all, after a short break from MadTrax to build the camera panning jig thingy I'm back on the case now.. With the frame painted it's time to start on the smaller parts, starting with these nice crusty A arms.. After thinking for a while I decided the best way to clean the crud off was to use one of these....... Well, use a Hoover as dust extraction for my blasting cabinet Unfortunately, due to the cabinet beings so small and bad arthritis in my shoulders the pain got too much after just a min's use, so I had to clean the A arms up the old fashioned way with a wire cup brush on the grinder! The very shot ball joints in the upper A arms came out without to much of a fight.. The lower ball joints however refuse to come out despite plenty of WD40 and huge amounts of pressure in the vice.. I think I'm going to have to grind the base of the ball joints away and try and bash them up through the A arm rather than down as normally would be done.. I'm sure my 12 ton hydraulic press is going to some in handy Four (mostly) cleaned up A arms waiting a few mods.. With the A arms having quite a bit of rust pitting I don't 100% trust the strength of them especially as they will have to cope with a lot more power and forces.... So template time it was. Which turned into a couple of these.. One of which fit's in here.. I didn't like the look of the inside straight bit, so something had to be found I could draw around to give a nice gentle curve. You can also see the lip welded to the underside of the strengthening plate to er... Strengthen it Fully welded up and hit with some Red Oxide.... I think they should be strong enough now and will hardly notice after a coat or two of satin black And so onto the lower A arms.......

That looks very picturesque Mark, good photo of the Landy.. It's a good job those sheep in the last photo are dark in colour or they would never be seen in the snow