The first thing your going to need apart from the Land Rover is a suitable place to disassemble your vehicle, remember the last nut and bolt to come off this chassis will be the first nut and bolt to go on the new one so the more space you can get the better. I also intend on refurbing and modifying parts before they go on so again more space for this will be needed.
Most of the parts I use on this project will be 2nd hand, I will find most of what I want from Ebay. I will make some one off parts myself and try to literally do as much of this work as I can keeping the costs as low as I can, it does annoy me when you see these people who say I've restored or rebuilt my Land Rover but by that they mean they've popped into the garage doing it for them once a week for an update, no wonder we here about ten grand rebuilds that are only worth four because most of the cost was labour charge.
OK, so I've go my workshop, its cheap,dry and out of the way so hopefully I wont be annoying anyone with the hammering,grinding,screaming and swearing that I know will be going on for a while. I realise this not going to be the fastest rebuild but it will be educational and most of all affordable for me. Every penny I save in labour means another replacement part for the car.
I am going to start the big strip down in the first week of Jan so not long now. I will post pics on here and use this blog as a diary of the project. I'm hoping that as I go I'll get some feedback from people in the know, if anything I'm doing helps someone out by showing them how to do something then that's great, equally if I'm doing something and someone posts an easier or more effective way then that's great too. Right keep reading once a week and I'll get on with this thing.............
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