Project Kermit 30: A Series Land Rover Full Restoration

The entire steering system is finished and fitted. The fuel system is fitted. The rear tub gets some serious attention, primed, undercoated, topcoated and then that's fitted as well!
Chapters:
0:00 The Steering System
14:52 Prepping for paint
17:38 More Steering System
21:55 Primer (etch)
24:51 Steering Alignment
30:55 Primer (high build)
32:51 Fuel System
39:51 Undercoat (black)
40:18 Gearstick & Handbrake
42:42 Undercoat and Topcoat (sandglow)
48:31 Fuel Lines
51:51 Topcoat (black)
52:46 Tub fitting
Project Kermit is a 1978 Land Rover Series 3 109 (long wheel base) which is being stripped right down and rebuilt with a 200tdi engine and a few other improvements. The other videos in the series can be found in this playlist: • Project Kermit: A Seri...
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[@georgeclements2742]

It's really good to have someone to help when you have to do a tedious and filthy job. Hats off to Mark for pitching in. It looks as though the finishing line is in sight, and I will miss the series when it's all done.

[@callumchippendale]

Love the editing style of leaving sections of chat entirely without context

[@mrgumble1589]

"packet of pork scratchins and im anybody's" best line ever

[@julianbeesley5059]

Ahhhh that bit at the end, just like when Dick Van Dyke revealed Chitty Chitty Bang Bang from the Barn. Max chuffed to bits, so you should be 😀

[@dustymiller7758]

Well done Max, Kermit is coming along in leaps and bounds. The transformation is fantastic.

[@bobscheiberlich8840]

Maybe measure the steering box with oil instead of wd40 in. I had good succes with a mixture of oils even when starting up friction?

[@yako0000]

what! no hens? just teasing, Kermit looks great. only those who have disassembled and then reassembled a vehicle can fully appreciate the amount of effort, figuring, and cost involved.

[@Lemma01]

I'm in awe of the 'hidden logic' behind your approach here, Max: there's clearly a critical sequence in which things need to be done - but it reveals itself post-facto, and then "Erm, why is he...?" suddenly becomes "Oh, I get it now! Highly educational entertainment. Cheers!

[@alanpaisley8696]

Add a steering damper....I did to my Series 3 SWB recently and find the difference whilst driving amazing. Enjoying your restoration too.

[@ShedTV]

I had a 109 where a quarter of a turn of the wheel had fairly minimal affect on the direction of travel!

[@kelnor7696]

Thank you Max for sharing Kermit’s journey both can’t wait to see it done and don’t want it to end as well!! Lots of progress ❤

[@DaveAppleton]

Imagine trying to do this level of restoration on a modern unibody vehicle. Mark is a great friend, please thank him for helping from us.

[@shanemccauley8354]

Another great one. You are truly the only fellow I watch from beginning to end. Everything seems pertinent to the projects you are working on. I appreciate that, you don’t get political or religious for or against everything is Zen.

[@christopherpowell6135]

I wish I had a good enough mate to help me do a tedious job like prep work...unfortunately I don't...value that man Max!

[@Anderzander]

Amen

[@edgeeffect]

Yeah... I agree with Mark about the tub going on... it's starting to "look like a Landrover" now.

[@Icebuntrucker]

Looking good Max all the hard work and hours paying of now ,

[@JasonJohnson-yu8zf]

Looks great in the sunlight

[@fred-bevhogendorn8023]

Love all the bird noises ❤

[@1unsung971]

Epic stuff Maestro. You can feel well pleased with your achievements to date. BRAVO, BRAVO!!!

[@keitho77]

Great work Max!! It's so new and shiny you won't want to get it dirty

[@lenhornsey2175]

Thanks Max for giving us a fully entertaining hour. Good luck for the future.🇻🇨

[@johnmcquay82]

I was apprehensive about the colour, but I think it looks awesome! How about that, two project Awesomes? :D

[@derekagnew6510]

looking great Max kermit is going to be a great truck

[@splendiferouse0]

Its starting to look good, I owned a S3 2 1/4 petrol 109 and upgraded the engine to 2.5 turbo diesel which eat the gear box twice before I swapped it. I kinda wished I'd kept the 109 now

[@wraithchild666]

"I'm well appy with that" - can't blame you! its great :)

[@dragontattooee]

Love the end result, getting closer and closer

[@martinjustice]

The noise from those orbital sanders sounded like that that comes from my front room when the wife's doing book club, made me shudder. I like it how you use the gravy jug for swilling out the used WD40, my other half would go nuts. The rule of thumb for the door gaps is that if the gap is less than a thumb's width than it's better than factory. Perhaps you can build the first series that doesn't let in the rain. Great progress and I'm glad Mark could keep out of trouble for five minutes to help out.

[@Albert_206]

😂

[@JohnAdams-qh4zr]

Must be satisfying bolting on new and restored parts, comforting knowing how everything works and not having to worry about massive garage bills !

[@spungletrumpet]

Looking good! Think I'd better set up a pork scratchings donation website! 😀

[@robbybroon4904]

Perfect timing. Just watched all of Kermit, then your motorcycle vids, then your running/health vids, then your cabin restoration vids. Just finished pt. 6 of the cabin when this vid dropped. Thank you!

[@johncochrane2707]

Great progress Max this is such an excellent project. 14:26 "Not now Arthur..."

[@FretboardToAsh]

Definitely now, Arthur.

[@peterford436]

Excellent progress and Mark always adds a touch of dry amusement...

[@hoppy2903]

Excellent, looking pretty goo Sir Maximus.

[@kevinoakes1171]

Great work Max, starting to look like “Operation Desert Storm” Kermit in those colours. Good to see old Spungletrumpet joining in to see how he should have repaired the poor thing when he owned it !, if only he had a mate who knew how to do welding and stuff…. 🤔🤔🤔🤔…,😂😂😂.

[@Gupham]

Gonna have to keep a eye for Kermit when its on the road, don't Recon your far from me! 😅

[@lpil]

I feel you had fun editing in contextless comments of Mark's

[@dodge7679]

Keep them coming Damien.. another enjoyable one..

[@Moraren]

That is such a nice colour!

[@richardmaxfield8339]

Looking great. brilliant Video. many thanks. Stay safe that man

[@MapleMarmite]

Looking very, very good, Max. Personally I’m not a fan of painted cappings etc but that’s just individual preference. Re the way the steering can end up if not maintained; we had a Series 2A in the family when I was a lad and my old man referred to the steering wheel as the ‘direction suggester’… 👍🏻

[@crustycurmudgeon2182]

Wow, Max! You got a huge amount of important work done on Kermit! Lots of fiddly bits and some larger tasks are completed. Kermit's looking fine (dings and dents are "personality"). That fuel line is perfectly done. Steering stuff was a bear, but you tamed it. Very impressive! Cheers!

[@keithhodgson6489]

Absolutely agree about "personality"!

[@alanhawken8471]

Max, really great work and its looking pretty good in its colour scheme , with Mark pitching in when needed plus his musical interlude , well...👍 really.

[@BrizzleRocker]

I'm loving this project more and more!

[@SingleSpeedSi]

Excellent Video as ever. Loving the Build

[@pauljenkins2501]

Absolutely brilliant. Thank you.

[@MrPhillipgraham]

I think it's great that you have left the dents and bumps in her. I think people in this country are too obsessed with perfect, pristine bodywork on their vehicles! If you go to other countries like France and Spain nearly every other vehicle is bashed and marked all over the shop!

[@bryanrotchell1565]

Brilliant video, fairplay to you it will be brand new buy the time you have finished 👍👍👍

[@moonshinepz]

within the first minute I understood why land rover steering can be so iffy on old ones!

[@twocvbloke]

Starting to come together again there, won't be long before you'll be trundling along the country roads putting Kermit to work... :) Though that sanding moment, sounded like a massive swarm of angry bees, scary!!! :P

[@highdownmartin]

When I bought my lwb and drove it back from Somerset I don’t think the relay had seen oil in years. When I’d got it home and jacked the front up with both tyres off the ground, I could just about go lock to lock with both hands hauling the wheel round. After filling the relay with oil and repeated lock to lock action after about half an hour I could do it with one finger against the steering wheel spoke. I’ve never had the relay out( for all the obvious reasons!) in five years but there’s no play in it and apart from a bit of leak it’s good. About the only job I haven’t tackled yet. But they can be brought back from the dead.

[@paulburroughs1313]

Really wonderful episode. Such a sense of accomplishment and it's not even my project! Congratulations Max, quite the job!

[@dondickson653]

Your doing a good job I like the colour like the videos,

[@rustandoil]

We need more Mark 👍🏻

[@Dominic.Minischetti]

Man that’s looking great! I enjoyed watching brother!

[@kiz64]

Toe-in vs Tow-out. The way I remember it is to remember that wheels have some slop around what is effectively the King Pin... In a front-wheel drive car, the front tyres roll forward, and then drag the axle after them - so they need to start with the fronts slayed out, and when they roll forwards, the fronts swing in & hopefully end up straight ahead. In a rear-wheel drive, the axle gets pushed forward by the whole car, then pull the tyres along the road - so they need to start with the fronts splayed in, and when they roll forwards, the fronts swing out & hopefully end up straight ahead. For a 4 wheel drive vehicle, the ideal is that the fronts pull themselves forwards as fast as the rears push the axle forwards, so the wheels don't splay in or out....

[@danmidd]

I hope that's red paint on the floor at 6:29 hahah. Awesome Video !

[@garypoulton7311]

Had my series for 8 years, with a soppy floppy gear lever, never occured to me it could be adjusted, thanks for super tip.

[@johnmarshall2118]

You are a clever man and make every thing look easy

[@edLambshanks]

Great to see all the progress! Can we have more of Marc on the mouth organ?

[@stevencowles8419]

A bumper episode, you are making really solid progress, looking forward to the next one and soon the horror of doing the electrics which usually flumoxes me

[@Squarepeg57]

The sanding ‘soundtrack’ took me right back to my days of painting narrowboats! Great video. Fantastic to see Kermit’s progress back to service. Thanks!

[@allandoyle3555]

looking really good mate.

[@raymondherringbotn172]

Looking good. 👍🏻

[@danthefrst]

Lookin good! Sharp usability

[@johnshaw4140]

Fabulous , it's really coming together very nicely . You will have a fantastic truck once you have finished , and thankyou very much for bringing us all along with the build . As an aside , what veggies are you sowing in the garden this year ? That would also be interesting to see , and how is the Zil mobile organ project going ? Haven't seen that for ages . Have a great time , take care , hope to see you and more projects very soon

[@spinny2010]

Project Kermit became Project Awesome in this instalment. Hope we get an episode of Kermit's first outing. I want to see dappled sunlight flickering over that paint job as you potter through the Zummerzet lanes.

[@grahameroberts8109]

It’s amazing that you did all that work in 53 minutes! Looks crisp. 👍🏻🙏🦘

[@crispinleslie]

Great job Max- thanks for sharing.

[@_stoatchaser]

A most splendid treat at the end of a long day Sanding and painting my kitchen. Many thanks

[@gavinalmeida1994]

Jam packed vid, nice, love the yellow

[@mikeroutledge6929]

Really loving this project, that sandstone is definately the right choice, especially with the black trim etc

[@Rugbyman269]

Army steering boxes were sometimes / often /allways ? filled with grease cos oil just runs out the bottom . My series 2a needed a new box cos the ball in it had broken up, amazingly it still worked , but I got a s/h ex army one and it worked a treat .

[@lithiumike]

looking real good!

[@thijs3514]

Top job, like the color!!

[@jjt1093]

wow she is starting to look great :)

[@stephenswift9868]

Much progress! 👍

[@noddybray]

looking really good! well done..

[@nicholasviney5975]

Kermit has going from frog to prince, it's looking like a vehicle again

[@peterrichardson5664]

Great work really coming together

[@andydawkins9640]

Absolutely amazing, love it . Looking forward to seeing next instalment.👍🇬🇧👍🇬🇧

[@daveadams4128]

Loving this series ATB Dave

[@wallyverbeck1454]

Wow ! All that work, and it is looking SO good !! Then you mess up, and put the steering wheel on the wrong side. Sad. :-( Good job, Sir.

[@danielharper2329]

Good luck with the door gaps - its a bugger of small movements! A very useful 109. A great tool.

[@carlbranson4610]

That’s some good progress made in that episode Max. Well done and keep the updates coming.

[@daz6937]

Amazing work well done you

[@rogerphillips450]

Coming along nicely,

[@Chr.U.Cas2216]

Dear Maximus I. 👍👌👏 Very well done, Sir, very well indeed. A lot of progress happened in this video, congrats. Great episode by the way. The colour looks great, really bright and a bit more "orangey" than I thought. Because I love nearly anything that is green, I would have chosen green paint for the interior. Or at least the same colour as the exterior. But, as always, that's only my personal kind of taste. Your Landrover will definitely be one of the best existing ones. After all the effort you put in, I guess it will run like new. Thanks a lot for making teaching explaining recording editing uploading and sharing. Best regards luck and especially health to all involved people.

[@grenvillephillips6998]

That's what I call handsome!

[@kenlangbridge9907]

Very good work getting all of this very extensive restoration together. Even better filming an editing. Makes all that work look planned and worthwhile. Worthwhile in the sense that anyone following in your footsteps will be getting a huge step up. Thank you.

[@CaptChaos1964]

Max, it’s looking superb, I really appreciate the work you’re putting into this.

[@VeyronBD]

Flying through it with progress now! Really love the colour too with the black accents, looks great out in the sun.

[@nickboylen6873]

Max, it’s looking great! I strongly recommend adding the gear box longitudinal tie rod, which you can find in the Optional Parts catalogue. It is just a eased rod with rubber bushes (similar to those on the bottom of 109 rear dampers) with a bracket on the gear box cross member and another using the two empty bolt holes on the left side of the bell housing, adjacent to the gear box. It makes an enormous difference not only to the lifespan of the engine and gear box mounts, but more importantly gets rid of the play in the hand brake movement and makes the hand brake extremely effective.

[@maximusironthumper]

Thank you Nick and thanks for the tie rod tip, I'll read up on it.

[@nickboylen6873]

Sorry, autobugger changed “threaded rod” to “eased rod”. This is a link to one going spare at Safari Engineering. Just needs the cross member bracket to be complete - easy for you to fabricate. safari-engineering.co.uk/secondhand-parts/engine/engine-tie-rod-land-rover-series-504606-543254-509885-7015

[@888johnmac]

getting there ..and Sand-Glow / BL Beige isn't a colour i would have considered .. but it's stunning

[@mandofan2616]

amazing work

[@borisjohnson1944]

Top job.

[@venenareligioest410]

Awesome Job Max 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@georgesharman9891]

It's looking great Max cracking job

[@ianwallett7438]

Great job Max. Therapy for Land Rover fans!!! 🙂👍

[@Rosiesgrandad]

Great update Max, some real progress achieved there. Are you confident that the fuel pipes you've made will seal okay?

[@MarktheOddJob]

After all these years of enjoying watching Max's videos he's finally done something I don't like - painted cappings! Still love everything else though. 🤣

[@williammillard687]

A slightly abridged version of the ‘7Ps’ 🥸