Land Rover Rust Repair!- The Right Way To Restore/Rustproof

This Stage 1 V8 Land Rover lived and worked on 90 Mile Beach for many years, Then was owned by a Commercial Fisherman and next a Beef Farmer - Its had a hard life- In This video we discover just how good commercial rust proofing is long term
Check out my Land Rover rebuilds and camp outs • Land Rover Series 3 Re... Living the off Grid, Lifestyle, living big in a tiny house, tiny house on wheels, small house, tiny house design, tiny house tour, overland trailer, teardrop, squaredrop, restoration, rust repair, green roof, living roof, green wall, tiny house, new zealand, tiny house architecture, small space design, tiny house living, mother daughter tiny house, tiny house, tiny home, tiny house life, woodstove, wood fire cooking, composting toilet, bio digester, biogas, self sufficiency, permiculture, rainwater, harvesting, Landrover, series 3 stage 1 110 88 109 off road, Housetruck, space saving furniture, dream tiny house, modern tiny house, modern home, eco home, small home tour, tiny house 2020,

[@Leo-tt7ly]

Excellent video, such simple but effective tips, really appreciate the time spent showing clearly how it's done.

[@mthangar]

Great advice using heat sinks. I like using music speaker magnets repurposed for welding magnets. Have many for holding and if cooked it's ok they were free

[@grahambate3384]

Nice work mate

[@clivematthew-wilson7918]

Heavy copper sheet is vastly better as a welding heat sink. Eastwood sells a good copper heat sink, with magnets built in so that it can hold itself in place (safe with heat). Also, fish oil has a fairly limited life inside vehicle bodies. The best anti-rust treatment is a slurry of 1/3 fish oil, 1/3 Teroson cavity wax (the heavy liquid, not the spray can) and 1/3 spraying thinners. You can blow it everywhere with a proper long air wand, or simply use an engine cleaning gun. This slurry is initially very liquid and creeps in everywhere, then dries to a waxy, self-healing coating that lasts a decade or more, although I always redo sensitive areas such as doors every five years of so. CRC rust converter is an expensive way to treat light rust. Corroless is better and far cheaper and can be sprayed or brushed over light rust then topcoated later. About $130 for four litres. Keep up the good work :)

[@t.h.o.r.]

Thankyou for all that info Clive. problem is - I live in a town with 1 hardware outlet.and we use what we can get. All these brand names are interesting.Eastwoods is new to me Ill get back into their website and have a good look around. Protective Paints- Coroless - I used years ago on some agricultural implements and was most impressed. I will check out their primers. You comments have been so helpful

[@stacyreid5077]

Great video, I’ve tried doing that spot welding like you were doing to keep it cool and on mine I blew holes in it. Of course my wire welder is a cheap one. I need to get my Lincoln wire welder fixed up to my welding machine. Can’t wait to see the V-8 truck going. I’d love to have something like that to tinker with once I get done fixing my 4 tractors, tree shaker, both my CanAm Commanders and especially my John Deere 450E long track dozer ( my secret stress reliever)

[@kevinroughton3670]

Absolutely 😀😀

[@t.h.o.r.]

haha- absolutely what?

[@waynebenson1079]

Nice work.. .Fan clutch should be left hand thread

[@t.h.o.r.]

Thanks for the tip watch todays video

[@juliomoraes8165]

Congrats for the good job you're doing and for your attitude of saving resources as well. Thanks a lot for sharing this nice class, I own a jeep which is needing some maintenance and your videos encourage me to do it by my own.

[@t.h.o.r.]

Thank you very much! i want people to see how you can use a few hacks to make things affordable and fun

[@graemelliott3942]

Love your videos mate!

[@t.h.o.r.]

Thank You! that means a lot to me. Its almost camping weather here so soon Ill be doing videos of expeditions to the old goldfields and beach sandunes

[@graemelliott3942]

@@t.h.o.r. working on old Landies brought me to your channel. I have two of them. A 1963 2a 109 pickup and a 93 defender 300tdi.

[@ajbake73]

Really enjoying the Land Rover videos mate. My dad use to have a small collection of land rovers series 1 and 1a and my first car was a series 2a that my dad and I done up it had a Holden motor in it and a over drive so she was a 5 speed

[@t.h.o.r.]

Hey my Sand coloured one has a 3.3 Commodore VK motor and overdriive too. I love driving that one

[@BenMitro]

Some lessons in welding perhaps? Great tips - thank you.

[@t.h.o.r.]

Possibly! ill sneak a few in. keep watching

[@zingaman101]

the fan undoes the way it rotates. left hand thread, go the other way. Great tricks and general info! look forward to your videos.

[@t.h.o.r.]

Hey thanks for that. sorted! I bashed it off this morning and spent the day sand blasting pulleys, alternator brackets and wheelnuts. Tomorrow is firewall Saturday!

[@AliMackMechanical]

I have used vinger to clean up old nuts and bolts found it work's well also use duck oil. I use quite a lot of copper slip as well it's great stuff. I have to have the sills welded up in my MG ZR. The foot wells on the bulk head seam to most common place for the Land Rover series for roting. I see you are still having problems with your Audio. Where I am in the Highlands rust kills everything. Anyway mate hope your well. The rust converter we use that over here to works really well if your working outside.👍

[@t.h.o.r.]

ive recently found that the vinegar we get is only 4% with citric acid I can mix to suit the need.

[@Koemcke]

I’ve got the right tools to remove the viscous fan Stu, I got them off a guy who has the cad drawing for them. I think I only paid about 50 bucks for them.

[@t.h.o.r.]

Thanks mate, I smacked it in the right direction this morning and off it came

[@MrGreedam]

Great video as usual so glad the weather is good somewhere this week. Here in the Top of the South Island we are over the rain. Anyway is there some way of contacting you as would love to talk something I've with you if we can. Thanks

[@t.h.o.r.]

Ha ha - Thursday night and The weather has reached here- the forcast is for a week of this rain! - great, It will give the pets and livestock a few nights off the stupid fireworks.

[@MrGreedam]

@@t.h.o.r. My no. 0211339880. Would love to talk to you

[@nalinfernando8093]

Great welding tips! Is your MIG a heavy duty industrial one? Can't wait to see it running as you don't get to see many of them around 😊

[@t.h.o.r.]

reasonably grunty - 200 amp so i can weld trailer drawbars safely - but certainly not industrial- just a serious hobby level unit. here is a link to it= www.machineryhouse.co.nz/W1102

[@nalinfernando8093]

@@t.h.o.r. Thanks

[@StewsChannel]

Awesome stuff! I would say Brutus is in good hands :). Do you use shielding gas with your mig?

[@t.h.o.r.]

Seldom. because im welding outside so often and because Im also welding lots of galvanised steel - I use flux cored wire. I get a great price on it too. gas shield is nice for production work but it keeps getting more and more expensive! Oh and it fits and sparts on anything thats not perfectly clean

[@StewsChannel]

@@t.h.o.r. Thank you, I use flux core as well but have never tried it on autobody, I'll have to give it a shot now :)

[@fireball9709]

That foot well, why not just weld in a thicker piece of metal and avoid having the possible wicking if water to be trapped there? IE. if the inside section and out side section are 1mil thick weld in a 2 mil piece of steel? Cheers.

[@t.h.o.r.]

thats a good point- theres another rebuild happening in about 3 months- we can do it that way

[@big5astra]

What welder would you suggest a DIYer should get for home manufacturing etc? Thanks

[@t.h.o.r.]

I use a Migtronic 200 - nothing flash- but 200amps will weld 10mm steel safely for drawbars on trailers It can also be turned right down to weld 0.5mm sheet steel. I use Flux Cored wire to keep it more potable and because sheilding gas is easily blown away when working outside. The result is horrible porosity. try to avoid those 3 in one machines Tig/Mig/Arc. Its better to get them seperately for longevity

[@noelwhittle7922]

Reverse thread on the fan clutch? I betcha it is.

[@t.h.o.r.]

Hmmmm.... I watched a vid, cos I was concerned about that. and his one was not LH thread kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYSafmmFa7N7gbc

[@noelwhittle7922]

@@t.h.o.r. But that's not your model. Otherwise, it looks like it was moving, if I'm correct you were tightening it up. Looking at your fan suggests to me it normally spins clockwise so the nut has to go clockwise to loosen, (anti-clockwise to tighten) otherwise if the nut was anti-clockwise to loosen it would undo itself when the engine is running.

[@t.h.o.r.]

@@noelwhittle7922 haha this is the whole reasno I cant work for other people. Daily I get brainfreeze when faced with visualising the simplest concepts. I simply could not nut out in my head which way it had to be. with truck wheel nuts its LHT on LHS - I know that. but then lost the plot while thinking that with a soft thermo clutch on the spindle - Is a LHT needed? - send your answers on the back of a postcard -lol! I promise = as soon as its ligh tomorrow morning Ill go give it a bash the other way

[@noelwhittle7922]

@@t.h.o.r. No worries. I had to sit here with a bolt and nut and wave my hands in circle motions. :) So tomorrow morning at least 2 of us, = you and I, will have our fingers crossed.

[@Joe-od3td]

Hello, what welder do you recommend? Thanks!

[@t.h.o.r.]

For a home resto on a budget I would get a 140 amp mig and run flux cored wire. ensure it has rotary dials for amps and wire speed- not 3 position switches. Make sure the wire feed assembly is steel not plastic. and buy a mid price range auto darkening helmet

[@mikeroutledge6929]

the main ingredient in wd40 is fish oil

[@t.h.o.r.]

Thatll be why it's so much better than CRC! which is mostly kerosene I reckon

[@larrym6019]

Cool view! Do you watch Fitzees Fabrication? He's on the other side of the world from you but you'd probably get a kick out of his content restoring Automotive metal.

[@t.h.o.r.]

Hi Larry- Ill check him out- My favorite body guy is Trev's Blog