Day 38 (8th September 2013) of my Budget Restoration of my Series 2 Land Rover

Day 38

It has been a couple of days since we were last able to work on my Series 2 'Jane-May'. With illness and the weather, it has been 4 days since we last did any work. But you will enjoy reading about what happened today.

And Oh what a day we have had today. I do hope you have been to the toilet before you read this post. You will be wetting yourself when you have finished reading.

Right, the chassis is finished and all painted. The brake parts all came on Saturday. Now we need to jack the Series up, take the wheels off and put on axle stands. Then make the brake pipes and fit the new brakes, pipes, cylinders and master cylinder, Easy, Right!!!!!!!!!!

NO, nothing is easy. We got the back of the Series jacked up and the axle stands underneath. Then took the wheels off. Marking them with chalk so that we know which wheel was from where. Now we need to get the front jacked up. We got it jacked up enough to take the wheels off and mark them up. Then we tried to get the axle stands under. Easy right, WRONG, VERY WRONG. As we jacked the front of the Series up, it slipped. Yes, slipped. This part of the garden used to be a flower border and there is only stones over the top of the soil.

Well, all we could do was watch and the whole of the front of the Series went down into the ground. It buried the axle stands, but not just them. It also buried the jack. Paul only has one jack, so I had to go and knock at a neighbours house to see if he had one. Luckily he had one. Only a little jack, but we were hoping it would do the job.

In all, with trying to get the front of the Series jacked up to free the stands and Pauls jack, we were held back with the work for an hour. I think our neighbour was having a good laugh. But he did help out, so I will let him off. LOL.

We had to take some paving flags from the back garden too put under the axle stands and slowly jack everything up again to get it back up straight. I hope you are not laughing too much, not.

Anyway, Paul has managed to get 4 of the 6 new brake pipes made. He would have got them all done, but it started to rain just after we got 'Jane-May' on to sturdy flags and stands.

So here are the photos of the brake pipes that have been made so far.

Brake pipe going to centre from right side of rear axle

Brake pipe going along left side of axle

Brake pipe going rear to front of chassis

Close up of rear right side brake pipe

Close up of left side rear brake pipe

Close up of rear to front brake pipe

Well that is it for today. The weather has been awful and so has our luck with the Series today. Lets hope tomorrow is a better day for weather and for luck. At least the lads are back at college tomorrow, so we wont have them to worry about.

So will speak to you all tomorrow
Debbie