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Well not been able to do much yet on the Little White Tolly due to family comitments but today I did manage to get a spare couple of hours work done on it.


So today I started to investigate why the overdrive had failed on me 50 miles from home,
whist investigaing I poked my head under the bonnet and could see that one of the wires on the inhibitor switch had fell off i replaced it poped the gearbox in 4th and clicked the switch in low and behold the overdrive engaged.

after this victory I cleaned under the bonnet area insulating some bare wires.

after this I started treating a couple of rust scabs.


Happy days.

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Round The U Bend Looking for my Camera

Too easy, Glenn! Please find something that takes longer than a couple of seconds to fix.

Glad it wasn't broken though, that's the way to do it.

doesn't normally work that way for me John.


Maybe its a good sign, A classic that actually is Glenn proof?

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Round The U Bend Looking for my Camera

Things like that are always so gratifying - I had one like that on the Jeep, the centre overhead console had dropped at one corner and I'd always assumed that a plastic clip in the roof had broken or similar.

A few days ago I was sitting in a car park waiting for someone so out of curiousity I started poking around - and realised that it has metal catches that overlap and hold it up. I pushed it into the roof (causing it to pop out a bit, over the retaining edge) and voila, fixed and secured!

Hopefully If I can find somewhere undercover soon I will get her ready for paint.

Anyone know anyone in norfolk with a garage empty lol

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Round The U Bend Looking for my Camera

Nice one Glenn, you've got to get my former LWT as shiney as possible!

Do you still want the seats, forgot to ask you earlier in the thread.

Ken

Cheers for the Kind offer Ken but im not going to need em due to Lady Tolly's cleaning skills the interior is as good as new

mind you if you know anyone with a rot free boot lid for a tolly send em my way.

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Round The U Bend Looking for my Camera

Nice one mate, no problem. Is that still the complete 1500FWD black interior?

Rob or James on here might be able to help. A 1300FWD bootlid fits too.

More piccies!

as far as i know its still the same black interior.

as for the bootlid thats handy to know they are the same as a 1300

by the way anyone fancy popping over my way and spraying and paint preping the tolly lol

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Round The U Bend Looking for my Camera

Could the living paintwork legend who is (Comrade) Paul not do you a nice paint job? He knows his way around spraying kit according to those in the know.

unfortunatly the comrade has no unit to paint in at the moment so im on the hunt for somewhere to do the work

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Round The U Bend Looking for my Camera

Ah, that's a bugger. Can you not rent a Gazebo-type thing from a tent hire place and use that to provide cover? OK, so they don't like their rental equipment being taken back covered in dark brown paint , but as your car's almost white, you may get away with it.