Paul LeClair newest project July 2023

GregT said:
Paul. I'd think very hard about getting someone to do the engine in part. Quicker with the right gear and if things don't work afterwards you've got some sort of warranty on the work.
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Hi Greg

it is already clear to me that lifting the body off would make this process much easier, and there is no way I can accomplish that in my working space.

I agree and I will get quotes on swapping the 2013 engine into the 2012.

I am leaving on holidays to British Columbia either tomorrow or Tuesday, the engine removal will have to wait. As I proceed to make room in the engine bay to get the engine out I am harvesting great condition parts, learning a lot about how the Range Rover is put together, saving a bunch of labour costs, and believe it or not, having fun.
 
If the body is knackered anyway, can you not simply cut it away in pieces, saving any good bits such as doors, rear hatch, etc. for sale later? No need to lift anything that way. Forgive me if you've already embarked on such a plan and I missed it somewhere amongst the thread posts.

That method is not so helpful when it comes time to drop your good body over the re-furbished engine/chassis.
 
Steve G. said:
That’s a great deal!
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It’s an auction, the price will rise in the last hour or so. The best part of BAT is in the comments where the seller discusses the vehicle with buyers and other commenters. The bike has 6500mi, was in a collection and last ridden in 2005 except for 100mi the seller put on it recently. I assume the original exhaust was rusted and the shocks shot, so they were replaced, but maybe the seller bought it like that. Tires are ancient Dunlops.

The seller asks that any questions be put to him directly and not in the open comments, for what that is worth. He obviously does not want any experts picking it apart publicly which sort of defeats the purpose of BAT. When I sold my Lotus 11 replica there I spent a lot of time in the week the auction was online answering questions in the comments. This let me go into detail about the build and IMHO, that and the driving video of me drifting it around the Paso Robles wine country was what got me such a good price. This guy feels differently.
 
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yes any Laverda project (except maybe a combine harvester) would take less room than either the Lincoln continental project or the Range Rover engine swap. I am done with LAverda twins after selling the1971 8000 series drum brake SFC 750, I would still like to experience ownership of an SFC 1000......

The Lincoln is going to a specialty shop for a new exhaust while I am away on holidays. The mice have been thoroughly and completely evicted and all traces eliminated, new blower fan and blower wheel, ducts, etc and all the interior fans etc working smoothly, although the air con needs servicing and hopefully just recharging... The non working Cartier clock has been replaced with a good used unit from a Lincoln parts specialty place and is ticking away happily.

When the Lincoln comes back from the exhaust replacement it will get a thorough interior shampooing and then a final deodorizing with the ozone generator. I have run the ozone generator in two of my other vehicles, it seems to thoroughly kill any odour.
 
I watched a guy get the motor out of a mini once with just a cold chisel and hammer. Very inventive. Great idea on the Range Rover just lifting the body off easily and simply. There is no room to work on modern vehicles and virtually every job on them is designed to be done on a hoist anyway.
 
A mate crashed and wrote off his FC Holden in the late 1980s, he stripped it of the engine and sellable bits using garden tools to smash it to bits in the street right out the front of his parent's house in the Multi-Million Dollar Harbour side suburb of Northbridge opposite the Golf Course there. It was hysterical funny being involved, you wouldn't last 20 minutes trying that these days. The Council would fine you to death.
 
I cut up the project donor 1965 Austin-Healy Sprite in my driveway with a Sawzall reciprocating saw one afternoon and put it into the trash bin over the next couple of months. Luckily the trash pickup is all done with a hydraulic arm so no one noticed how heavy the bins were!
It was a wire wheeled rust free example with a fiberglass hardtop I bought for $300. I tried to part it out and then just give it away, but nobody wanted it. I did get rid of the hardtop though to a guy with his own Sprite.
 
chrisk said:
I used an axe to cut a Morris Major in half. PS: Not a gas axe, a wood chopping axe.
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Wood axe and a sledge hammer. Great for turning a hard top into a convertible on a road trip from Canada to Florida in winter. When the temperature hit 20 degrees we stopped at a gas station and chopped the top off. Asked the station owner if we could leave it around back for a week. On the trip home we grabbed the top and duct taped it back on. Lasted almost another 6 months before being taken off the road as unsafe.

Jim
 
Alzero said:
I cut up the project donor 1965 Austin-Healy Sprite in my driveway with a Sawzall reciprocating saw one afternoon and put it into the trash bin over the next couple of months. Luckily the trash pickup is all done with a hydraulic arm so no one noticed how heavy the bins were!
It was a wire wheeled rust free example with a fiberglass hardtop I bought for $300. I tried to part it out and then just give it away, but nobody wanted it. I did get rid of the hardtop though to a guy with his own Sprite.
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Ha, I have a stockpile of a banned natural fibrous building product at my place. I snap off 300mm square bits and put it in the bin, piece by piece.

Sometimes it goes on a road trip with me.
When we were kids we’d grab some from building sites and use it like frisbees….

a lesson that’s come in handy 50 years later, but it takes an extra skill out the car window at speed.

Earth to earth…… and all that guff 🤫
 
You need a special license to remove THAT STUFF. It needs to be constantly wetted down with water, double-wrapped in plastic and taped up tight and carefully disposed of. Usually, that means being dumped at the local tip and repeatedly run over with a Dozer and then buried.
 
In WA right now everyone licenced for asbestos are going through retraining; licence cancellation for non compliance. Annual audits (was 2-3yrs). Last assessor said job specific SWMS for the last 5 years must be retained and are subject to audit. Seems the operators didn't listen to the last time Worksafe came down on us a few years ago. There'd be site audits and 'contaminated site' memorials on land titles for fails. There is an opinion there are organised crime scumbags involved in the industry and a bit of jackboot required. It is dangerous shit with a slow painful death for the afflicted but a lot of operators are 'she'll be right'.
 
It's not hard to comply, and it's dangerous not to. It doesn't take much exposure to cause profound issues years later.
 
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