Fantastic viewing Mr Foreman - good for the soul! I grew up around old Landrovers and my old dad had both seris 1 and 2's which we were always taking to bits and trying to fettle! It consisted mainly of unbolting stuff, cleaning it, packing it with grease and bolting it back together - can't remember many new bits! A 1956 series1 was the first vehicle I drove on the road on my own when I passed my test in 1974 over here in the UK. Thought it was quite normal that there was a good couple of inches play on steering wheel before the wheels turned! Jesus!! Keep at it, it's going to be great!
Ok Gav, it’s time to come home to Oz. I saw your tape measure in inches and thought you are getting much too close to the dark side. Cheers from Jafffa Adventures, loving the series😎👍
This brightened my day with your humour. I often have issues when welding and getting sparks down my socks. Now I know the solution. Don't have anything on your feet. A great frame by the way. All you need is an engine and some wheels.
Very reassuring to see Wilms walking past in one shot. Some of us were speculating that you might have done her in, in a moment of restoration frenzy. Stay well you guys. Onwards!
Yep, Wilms is still hanging in there and hasn't as yet traded me in for a younger model. Even Krikkit has lost some enthusiasm for workshop shenanigans, can't understand why?
Ahh Mr Foreman i just love your videos. You are an Australian treasure delivering some awesome Aussie ingenuity to the US of A folk!! Love you brother! From the 'Gong NSW.
For a while I thought that bulkhead was beyond repair A job not many backyarders would attempt glad you started now we know it will be done be done. Well done. I am going to cancel the plumber and stand by for the next episode.
Very nice work for a bush mechanic right down to the wifebeater singlet (how very oztralian) and the safety boots ! the feet do look as hard as dead dingoes donga though Keep it up Mr Foreman.
I want to say a few things about your videos. I have been watching them binge style after a hard days work (retirement work) in sunny QLD. I love your humour, it is so Aussie...and it is refreshing to see your unbridled candour. You certainly deserve more views than I am seeing. I just happened upon them after watching Geoffrey Croker (kiwi). I have thoroughtly enjoyed your approach and style. I wonder how you can get your gems out there more. I am sure so many more (probably aussies) would enjoy your content. I find it a little ironic that you are restoring a british car in USA and being Australian. How on earth did they continue to produce such uneccessairly complicated pieces of machinary in the face of the certain reliability of Japan. Anyway, keep up the great work.. I look forward to many more escapades.
Great work Gav, with a cameo from Wilms. Mike from Brittanica Restorations swears by Krown rustproofing spray. I love the way you protect your eyes and lungs but care not for other less important bits like toes. Your Roman style safety boots help to some extent at least. I am always entertained by your productions and look forward to the next enthralling episode. 👍🏻🙏🦘
The feet have just emerged from winter socks and boots and still quite soft. The yearly 'breaking in' period is always a bit painful. I like the fellow from Brittanica Restorations, I'll look into this rustproofing spray.
If your bulkhead is like my Series 2 one the rivets are for holding on the door seals rather than the door pillar which is spot welded. Good job! Keep at it.
I'm rather impressed with your welding. When we were going round Oz in the old Bedford, I saw a free welding course at TAFE when we were in the Barossa, so I went in to learn how to weld. As soon as the arc was struck I couldn't see a bloody thing. When the lecturer had a look at my work he said it looked like worms on drugs. He tactfully suggested that I was never going to make a good welder so I went away and have never welded since. :)
I wouldn't worry about someone else insinuating you're a bad welder, embrace the title and weld away! You never know, one day you might get it right. Works for me.
The last thing I want to do, Gav, is to tip over, break, puncture, or otherwise empty your container of turd polish, but it appears you'll be replacing virtually the entire bulkhead assembly, bit by painstakingly fabricated bit. On a lighter note, it was fun to get a glimpse of Cricket's "dear" long-legged playmate.
I look forward to seeing how you get on with repairing your bulkhead. A friend of mine has started restoring his Series I, and he also needs a bulkhead. Luckily he's been able to source a replacement via a Land Rover specialist garage.
Excellent job so far! Great way to jump right in. I feel the pain of the contemplation should I cut it all out and replace or patch. I went the patch route since my 2A will be living a lot better life than a farm truck it was before. So if I can get 20 years out of the bulkhead with patches. I’ll be happy. Ha ha!! I found beer boxes make the best patch panel templates. I prefer the Miller Lite brand boxes. Ha ha!! Best of luck!!
Greetings Cory, I watched your Bulkhead restoration trying to learn the monstrous challenge before me. If I remember you found some fellows called 'welding wood' who made panels. Some of these long 5 foot panels will be tricky to recreate. The one at the top has a groove for a seal that is out of stock in the UK and I fear that may mean gone for good.
Good job. A wee tip. Make your template first. Then use this to make up the cut lines with a sharpie and cut to them. Much speedier than trying to make template fit a hole and you get a perfect cut and fit every time.
Hi Gav, love you videos, have you thought of making a rotisserie to add to your jig it could save a lol of back ache and yes your welding is improving. Also, if you were to measure and cut out those sections you are making and take the to someone with a bender/ brake, it wouldn’t take them long to fold them up. I have done this in the pass. Cheers keep them coming
Now that you have made up your bulkhead jig, you will having Landy lovers from all over America coming to use it! If only that engineers at Solihull at used steel plate half a millimeter thicker, or spent a few extra dollars galvanising the metal bits, landrovers would last forever.
Reminds me of the time spent on my bulkhead - a light sand blast certainly shows up the problems… I should have done that first. Just finished stage 2 of the rebuild…
If you decide not to do the complete rebuild soak the panel in 40% phosphoric acid to passivate the rust. Inject a low viscosity rustproofing agent at the end to penetrate all corners. ATF is highly recommended by some mechanics but warm it first. Waxoyl doesn't seem to be the best and it will catch fire if you weld there in the future (been there, done that).
Loving this channel, which i've just discovered!! so far under the radar, and flicking the finger at you tube, it's buried deeeeeeep....well worth the effort of finding it though....Some very new and shiny tools finding their way onto the channel too!! i'll be doing the same thing in 2025, except to a Citroen 2CV, before scaling the heights of the Canning Stock Route
Glad you like the films. We are hard to find, I even struggle to find my own videos at times. Best of luck on the Canning, it's a great trip and worth giving yourself plenty of time. Hang on! I just googled a Citroen 2CV! I assume that's not going on the Canning. Nice looking little car though.
Hi Gavin and Summer.....Thanks for the reply.....i have watched your Canning Film and [obviously] enjoyed it..The Canning has been on my bucket list for a few decades, ever since spending two years in Queensland/NT back in the 80's - mostly doing mineral exploration for the mine at Mt Isa. I digress....back to the 2CV - yes, i'm planning to do the Canning in one of these cars. My research tells me that i'm not the first and that one completed the Canning in 1985. They are truly amazing cars - i owned one in the UK for about 5 years - and i think is the only car to make across the Sahara, without being modified. The cheese eating surrender monkeys, or the French as they are better known, have given us many wonderful things, including cheese, the language of love and the flair of the French rugby team but the 2CV must be the greatest......in two senses....1) the original design criteria stipulated that the car must carry a crate of eggs on French country roads, without breaking them and 2) They were asked to come up with a 4 wheel drive option, so they merely added another engine to drive the back axle - brilliant!!!!! The car will need to be 'modified' to take on the Canning - the Australian 2Cv owners club have lots of good advice on that...or more precisely, they have good advice for something called Raid Australia. One a more serious note and reading your bios on your website, you are both much more experienced travellers than myself , and you have completed the Canning so any advice would be truly appreciated....i assume that you're still in the US?@@ForemanAndWilmsAdventures
That's a patient man there. Bulkheads are tricky blighters. Is that the original? They never lasted long in England, which may or may not be ironic. Another good effort there mate.
I don't know if it is original, replaced, repaired or modified for a V8 installation. I don't have anything to compare it too which makes things quite challenging.
Mr Foreman, we are very alike in so much that - you may be rough but your slow as well. You know what I like about doing bulk heads? nothing at all. I would clean out the rusted channel as best as I could with high pressure water, high pressure air, high pressure ethanol, then high pressure repeat of the process until it kinda looks cleaner, then hit it with rust convertor and a waxyol type corrosion protector (of course under pressure would be more fun),. A lot less work if its not structurally compromised. Prevent oxygen and water and you prevent further corrosion, just gotta work out what is acceptable from a structural perspective. You look hot in the dining out overalls btw. Steve
Oi there! I was getting worried about you. I'm concerned any high pressure applications on my bulkhead will see it disintegrate before my eyes though I have seen others in much worse condition. Have you any Land Rovers left in your collection?
@@ForemanAndWilmsAdventures No cause for worry, just been busy transitioning to being a full time fly fishing bum. I just bought another fine landrover a few weeks ago, I lasted almost 6 months without one , but was offered one too good to refuse - video coming soon.
Hydrochloric acid is your flux of choice for galvanised iron. It can dissolve the zinc entirely. That said, I'm not sure that galvanised iron is the right grade of steel for that job. You might consider some Mongrels for your feet.
I can see how a few patches quickly ends up looking much like a complety remade bulkhead, or a dummy spit part way through and ordering a remanufactured one for silly $$$.
Oi there! All good with us. Currently working on 4 or 5 films though not in any rush, might have something out in a month or 2. We've also become a lot less interested in the platform as the competition is now fiercer than ever and channels seem to be getting more desperate for attention. It's a good time for Foreman and Wilm's to sneak out the 'dunny window'.
@@ForemanAndWilmsAdventures Good to know you guys are well. Hope you don't give up entirely, there are SOME people out here who really appreciate what you do :)
Saw the gorgeous Wilms walk past, but she didn’t stop to say hello. Thanks for the video.
Fantastic viewing Mr Foreman - good for the soul! I grew up around old Landrovers and my old dad had both seris 1 and 2's which we were always taking to bits and trying to fettle! It consisted mainly of unbolting stuff, cleaning it, packing it with grease and bolting it back together - can't remember many new bits! A 1956 series1 was the first vehicle I drove on the road on my own when I passed my test in 1974 over here in the UK. Thought it was quite normal that there was a good couple of inches play on steering wheel before the wheels turned! Jesus!! Keep at it, it's going to be great!
I recently heard landrover steering described as “suggesting a direction the car might consider going”
Doing well, Foreman. Love the safety boots. Just don't come crying to me if you burn a hole in one of them!
Ok Gav, it’s time to come home to Oz. I saw your tape measure in inches and thought you are getting much too close to the dark side. Cheers from Jafffa Adventures, loving the series😎👍
This brightened my day with your humour. I often have issues when welding and getting sparks down my socks. Now I know the solution. Don't have anything on your feet.
A great frame by the way. All you need is an engine and some wheels.
You got me at FFS ! Another brilliant top class outing both
thanks
Brit in Malaysia
Great video Mr Foreman. Never easy getting the right measurements. Top work and welds you could eat your breakfast off. Cheers Geoff
Thanks Geoff. I've still got a long way to go with 'me weldin' but I've come a long way. It's happening.
Great video mate, you make me laugh 🤣🤣🤣 Mick
Very reassuring to see Wilms walking past in one shot.
Some of us were speculating that you might have done her in, in a moment of restoration frenzy.
Stay well you guys.
Onwards!
Yep, Wilms is still hanging in there and hasn't as yet traded me in for a younger model. Even Krikkit has lost some enthusiasm for workshop shenanigans, can't understand why?
Ahh Mr Foreman i just love your videos. You are an Australian treasure delivering some awesome Aussie ingenuity to the US of A folk!! Love you brother! From the 'Gong NSW.
Great determination!
Brilliant!
Fun and games,best wishes 🙂
For a while I thought that bulkhead was beyond repair A job not many backyarders would attempt glad you started now we know it will be done be done. Well done. I am going to cancel the plumber and stand by for the next episode.
I reckon it's going to be a challenge.
Good job Mr Foreman. I do hope you don't end up polishing a turd here. Looking forward to the next episode.
Long hard road ahead but we have faith you will overcome.
Very nice work for a bush mechanic right down to the wifebeater singlet (how very oztralian) and the safety boots ! the feet do look as hard as dead dingoes donga though
Keep it up Mr Foreman.
I want to say a few things about your videos. I have been watching them binge style after a hard days work (retirement work) in sunny QLD. I love your humour, it is so Aussie...and it is refreshing to see your unbridled candour. You certainly deserve more views than I am seeing. I just happened upon them after watching Geoffrey Croker (kiwi). I have thoroughtly enjoyed your approach and style. I wonder how you can get your gems out there more. I am sure so many more (probably aussies) would enjoy your content. I find it a little ironic that you are restoring a british car in USA and being Australian. How on earth did they continue to produce such uneccessairly complicated pieces of machinary in the face of the certain reliability of Japan. Anyway, keep up the great work.. I look forward to many more escapades.
Love your presentation style...and your work of course. Cheers
...lookin' good, nice work, keep safe..
Wow, three episodes in a row. You must be exhausted maybe Wilms should take you on an adventure somewhere!
You’re really good at CAD
Cardboard aided design
Great work Gav, with a cameo from Wilms. Mike from Brittanica Restorations swears by Krown rustproofing spray. I love the way you protect your eyes and lungs but care not for other less important bits like toes. Your Roman style safety boots help to some extent at least. I am always entertained by your productions and look forward to the next enthralling episode. 👍🏻🙏🦘
Would love a beer with Gav and Mike.
The feet have just emerged from winter socks and boots and still quite soft. The yearly 'breaking in' period is always a bit painful. I like the fellow from Brittanica Restorations, I'll look into this rustproofing spray.
Just no better entertainment on YT !! Take it slow, measure twice (or plenty) and keep us posted. Best and enjoy.
If your bulkhead is like my Series 2 one the rivets are for holding on the door seals rather than the door pillar which is spot welded. Good job! Keep at it.
I'm rather impressed with your welding. When we were going round Oz in the old Bedford, I saw a free welding course at TAFE when we were in the Barossa, so I went in to learn how to weld. As soon as the arc was struck I couldn't see a bloody thing. When the lecturer had a look at my work he said it looked like worms on drugs. He tactfully suggested that I was never going to make a good welder so I went away and have never welded since. :)
I wouldn't worry about someone else insinuating you're a bad welder, embrace the title and weld away! You never know, one day you might get it right. Works for me.
The last thing I want to do, Gav, is to tip over, break, puncture, or otherwise empty your container of turd polish, but it appears you'll be replacing virtually the entire bulkhead assembly, bit by painstakingly fabricated bit. On a lighter note, it was fun to get a glimpse of Cricket's "dear" long-legged playmate.
I like how you have the venison steaks just roaming around, love your work Mr.Foreman cheers from Brisbane Au
That venison steak is pregnant and currently gone bush where she belongs. I'm guessing soon we'll see her again with a little tacker in tow.
I look forward to seeing how you get on with repairing your bulkhead. A friend of mine has started restoring his Series I, and he also needs a bulkhead. Luckily he's been able to source a replacement via a Land Rover specialist garage.
Excellent job so far! Great way to jump right in. I feel the pain of the contemplation should I cut it all out and replace or patch. I went the patch route since my 2A will be living a lot better life than a farm truck it was before. So if I can get 20 years out of the bulkhead with patches. I’ll be happy. Ha ha!! I found beer boxes make the best patch panel templates. I prefer the Miller Lite brand boxes. Ha ha!! Best of luck!!
Greetings Cory, I watched your Bulkhead restoration trying to learn the monstrous challenge before me. If I remember you found some fellows called 'welding wood' who made panels. Some of these long 5 foot panels will be tricky to recreate. The one at the top has a groove for a seal that is out of stock in the UK and I fear that may mean gone for good.
Good job. A wee tip. Make your template first. Then use this to make up the cut lines with a sharpie and cut to them. Much speedier than trying to make template fit a hole and you get a perfect cut and fit every time.
You have more determination than skills my friend but sometimes that’s all you need.
Hi Gav, love you videos, have you thought of making a rotisserie to add to your jig it could save a lol of back ache and yes your welding is improving.
Also, if you were to measure and cut out those sections you are making and take the to someone with a bender/ brake, it wouldn’t take them long to fold them up. I have done this in the pass.
Cheers keep them coming
Now that you have made up your bulkhead jig, you will having Landy lovers from all over America coming to use it! If only that engineers at Solihull at used steel plate half a millimeter thicker, or spent a few extra dollars galvanising the metal bits, landrovers would last forever.
Reminds me of the time spent on my bulkhead - a light sand blast certainly shows up the problems… I should have done that first. Just finished stage 2 of the rebuild…
more love the show
love your way of story telling .... now, get back down under .... please !!!
Bulkhead gets one star, editor gets five
If you decide not to do the complete rebuild soak the panel in 40% phosphoric acid to passivate the rust. Inject a low viscosity rustproofing agent at the end to penetrate all corners. ATF is highly recommended by some mechanics but warm it first. Waxoyl doesn't seem to be the best and it will catch fire if you weld there in the future (been there, done that).
Another option would have been to get it acid dipped to kill any internal rust , then just treated the internals with a rust inhibitor.
Remember more than two shakes of the zipper and it’s a wxxx.
Loving this channel, which i've just discovered!! so far under the radar, and flicking the finger at you tube, it's buried deeeeeeep....well worth the effort of finding it though....Some very new and shiny tools finding their way onto the channel too!! i'll be doing the same thing in 2025, except to a Citroen 2CV, before scaling the heights of the Canning Stock Route
Glad you like the films. We are hard to find, I even struggle to find my own videos at times. Best of luck on the Canning, it's a great trip and worth giving yourself plenty of time. Hang on! I just googled a Citroen 2CV! I assume that's not going on the Canning. Nice looking little car though.
Hi Gavin and Summer.....Thanks for the reply.....i have watched your Canning Film and [obviously] enjoyed it..The Canning has been on my bucket list for a few decades, ever since spending two years in Queensland/NT back in the 80's - mostly doing mineral exploration for the mine at Mt Isa. I digress....back to the 2CV - yes, i'm planning to do the Canning in one of these cars. My research tells me that i'm not the first and that one completed the Canning in 1985. They are truly amazing cars - i owned one in the UK for about 5 years - and i think is the only car to make across the Sahara, without being modified. The cheese eating surrender monkeys, or the French as they are better known, have given us many wonderful things, including cheese, the language of love and the flair of the French rugby team but the 2CV must be the greatest......in two senses....1) the original design criteria stipulated that the car must carry a crate of eggs on French country roads, without breaking them and 2) They were asked to come up with a 4 wheel drive option, so they merely added another engine to drive the back axle - brilliant!!!!!
The car will need to be 'modified' to take on the Canning - the Australian 2Cv owners club have lots of good advice on that...or more precisely, they have good advice for something called Raid Australia.
One a more serious note and reading your bios on your website, you are both much more experienced travellers than myself , and you have completed the Canning so any advice would be truly appreciated....i assume that you're still in the US?@@ForemanAndWilmsAdventures
21:04 - why do I have this belief that that is exactly what it looked like in the original factory.
That's a patient man there. Bulkheads are tricky blighters. Is that the original? They never lasted long in England, which may or may not be ironic. Another good effort there mate.
I don't know if it is original, replaced, repaired or modified for a V8 installation. I don't have anything to compare it too which makes things quite challenging.
Mr Foreman, we are very alike in so much that - you may be rough but your slow as well. You know what I like about doing bulk heads? nothing at all. I would clean out the rusted channel as best as I could with high pressure water, high pressure air, high pressure ethanol, then high pressure repeat of the process until it kinda looks cleaner, then hit it with rust convertor and a waxyol type corrosion protector (of course under pressure would be more fun),. A lot less work if its not structurally compromised. Prevent oxygen and water and you prevent further corrosion, just gotta work out what is acceptable from a structural perspective. You look hot in the dining out overalls btw. Steve
Oi there! I was getting worried about you. I'm concerned any high pressure applications on my bulkhead will see it disintegrate before my eyes though I have seen others in much worse condition. Have you any Land Rovers left in your collection?
@@ForemanAndWilmsAdventures No cause for worry, just been busy transitioning to being a full time fly fishing bum. I just bought another fine landrover a few weeks ago, I lasted almost 6 months without one , but was offered one too good to refuse - video coming soon.
At 2:40. Is that a deformed kangaroo? The front legs look very long.
Hydrochloric acid is your flux of choice for galvanised iron. It can dissolve the zinc entirely. That said, I'm not sure that galvanised iron is the right grade of steel for that job.
You might consider some Mongrels for your feet.
I can see how a few patches quickly ends up looking much like a complety remade bulkhead, or a dummy spit part way through and ordering a remanufactured one for silly $$$.
I foresee many dummy spits along the way though I doubt I could afford a new one shipped over if they can still be bought.
hold on, what is that at 02:41?
Señor Foreman, did u consider cutting some simple pieces and sending to a sand blaster shop to sand the shiiit out of it, from de inside out. 💪💪💪💪💪🤟🤟
Hope you guys are ok. Nothing for a while on the channel so hopefully you are just out adventuring.
Oi there! All good with us. Currently working on 4 or 5 films though not in any rush, might have something out in a month or 2. We've also become a lot less interested in the platform as the competition is now fiercer than ever and channels seem to be getting more desperate for attention. It's a good time for Foreman and Wilm's to sneak out the 'dunny window'.
@@ForemanAndWilmsAdventures Good to know you guys are well. Hope you don't give up entirely, there are SOME people out here who really appreciate what you do :)