April 2007 - Rover Landers of B.C.

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The Rover-Lander • April 2007 Page 14 March Minutes continued from Page 5 newsletter. • Leung, Arthur-Leung has been providing legal services for annual reporting under the Societies Act at their cost plus one dollar, saving the club $209. A thank you was suggested and ideas ranged from a card to Tshirts or merchandise for the Leung family. 4.) New Business: • Events – Next big event will be the Blair Ranch on the Easter Weekend. Dave and Pamela Blair have invited everyone to their place for a weekend of Rovering including a group pot-luck Easter dinner on Saturday night. Follow discussion on the website forums for final details. Rover-Landers Stuff New styles, sizes & colors for 2007! • Available are: Caps: baseball (cloth & oilskin) & board styles, T-shirts: long & short sleeve - available in sizes from S-XXL Denim Shirts, Hoodies, Fleece Vests, Club stickers & URL stickers for your truck! • • • View online at www.roverlanders.bc.ca or contact Andy at dr.jibalo@shaw.ca • Various discussion about everyone’s Rovers and some introductions. Meeting adjourned to parking lot at approximately 8:30 p.m. Minutes complied by Don MacDonald
in the the Garage G age Greg sutfin - Duncan 1970 109 Station wagon • Things have changed in the last few months. I gave up my nice rented shop and had to move the Land Rover to the neighbour’s shop. Had to or Got to? Anyway, it’s done now and work is progressing. • I had it in a rented shop for a year and got very little work done. Now, in the last three months, I’ve done more than in the entire previous year. First I had to get it mobile. A transmission had to be assembled from a bunch of parts, installed, E brake working, and a moving day had to come and go. • The transmission took a few attempts to get it right. As I was using parts from at least three versions of Series II trannys, there was bound to be a part that wouldn’t fit; I finally found it and when I saw the difference between it and the proper part, the difference stuck out like a sore thumb and the transmission slipped together like it was designed to. I sure hope it works properly when I get it on the road. • With a rolling chassis and an E brake to stop it, we were able to load it and every other part onto a borrowed trailer and haul it to a neighbours shop. Now that it is so much closer, I find I am working on it far more than before. Of course, the first two weeks it was at the new shop, I had to clean the shop and build a bench. Cheaper rent comes with a price and trying to find enough elbow room was a bit of a challenge. A national chain hardware store that I was depending on for a work bench, managed in their regular fashion to let me down. I built a bench finally and will leave it there when I move; at least the home built one was cheaper than the “tried to purchase” one, and bigger too. • I have use of a much larger and better welder to do bulkhead repairs. I just have to re-learn welding as I’ve never used shielding gas for welding (MIG welding). After making more than a few holes with the unit and a lesson from one of the welders I work with, I think I can manage it now. Not wanting to buy ready made pieces when I don’t know what they include, I’m piecing together foot wells and door posts. It is more work than buying a good bulkhead but the learning experience surely MUST build character. At the rate I’m going, the bulkhead should be finished in a couple months. • I’ve also build new mounting brackets and bits to fabricate a new B and C post assembly, that would be the piece that runs under the doors that the B&C posts are welded to and the brackets to attach it. These are drying right now after being coated with POR 15. If you use POR 15 please note the mes- Page 15 The Rover-Lander • April 2007 sage on the can that says if you get it on your skin, it is PER- MANENT and will only come off with TIME. Also note the instruction that says to seal the lid with a piece of plastic wrap between the lid and can lip. This is because if it dries between the two pieces of metal, you’ll NEVER get the lid off unless you cut the top off the can. They don’t go into a lot of detail about that. I won’t either. The stuff sure brushes on nicely and seems to go a long ways. I’m hoping this is a case of “getting what you pay for” because it sure is expensive. • Hopefully I’ll have a working Land Rover by June 9th. Greg Sutfin Vancouver Island Rep. Greg’s truck at the 2005 Van Isle Rally in the Valley shortly before it’s complete dis-assembly.
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