Fitting the floor to the 110 project. Part 2
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It’s the bits like the floor that bring a sense of nearing completion to a project! It looks great👍
Yes this has dragged on for 2 years now! I seem to recall it started as a 2.5 NA, then I fitted a Disco 2 V8 and auto box ( that was a kings ransom in electronics so ditched that idea) then a 300Tdi, now the GM 4.3!
Hello Mike if you remove and clean the replaceable tip and tighten the tip nuts you might find your soldering gun works again. Please keep up the great content! I subbed your channel after watching 2 minutes of the first video I watched love your sensense of humor.😀
Please be careful with your hot soldering iron. I was cringing when you put it down on the seat fabric and then it moved when you touched something else! I know the seats are filthy, but they appear to be in hole free condition ( at the minute at least).
Haha, I momentarily placed a hot inspection lamp (old incandescent / filament bulb) on my middle seat once. Ouch.
Ha! Didn’t you know it’s all Blue Peter trickery on this show - “here’s one I prepared earlier...” 😜
Hi Mike. Love the channel! Ref the floor plates is there any reason why you wouldn’t fix the foam tape to the floor plans as opposed to the seat box : bulkhead lips? Many thanks
Great idea
whats the best method to get the tunnel in position or remove?, do you lift straight up and pull rear ward or shimmy sideway and roll over the Gbox?
In an ideal world lift it up but the lower dash gets in the way
I tend to remove the fuse box bolts and on a LHD I take the bolts out of the handbrake, then lift it at the back
you could cut the gear stick rubber bellows part off flush with the base section, spin it round and glue it back on. But if you can get one made why bother
I had a re think on the shift and I will get Jim to make a cover once I am happy with the outcome
Mike try to put it in 5th gear I think it might touch the transfer gear shifter...
I re thought the shift and will do a video on it this week!
Nicee job Mike we will be waiting
Spire nuts
Fitting RHD gearbox cover is as much a pain as LHD. Good job the cover is flexible!
I must have missed the video of the bulkhead work but is that just stone chip in the footwells Mike? I've toyed with doing the same sort of thing but also thought about Raptor bedliner, especially on the outside once it's been epoxy primed and topcoated. I'm thinking bedliner over the top would make it pretty bullet proof!
I have done a few bulkhead repairs - go to my channel home page and search for bulkhead
We do not have Raptor here and I cannot import it by air as it is flammable, but the stuff we have for DIY is not so good, so I use stone chip, which in my 130 has been good for the last 8 years
Here is one
th-cam.com/video/LwtopHW65Hw/w-d-xo.html
The flat things used to be called simmond spire speed nuts. Learned that 35 years ago from a mechanic in Skelton Green%.
I think there are 5/6 names for them depending who makes them!
They make galvanized "acme nuts" that don't corrode quite as fast, I accidentally ordered 3 boxes of them at one point
Hi, Brand/Specs on the foam tape you used to seal floor panels?
i use dome head stainless bolts with penny washers top and bottom works a treat no rust any easy to get back off also stainless self tappers i use stainless were ever possible it makes sense too
I now have stainless self tappers
@@BritannicaRestorations they make life so much better i also make gaskets between steel and ally seems to work rather well i use damp course plastic along with the stainless
After struggling with customers vehicles that have had floor fitted with nuts and bolts, I now put them all back to standard LR fittings as it is a dream to get the tunnel/floor out!
G'day from Australia 🇦🇺. I love your channel and you've assisted me with your videos. Thanks.
I have a 110 300tdi defender, do you have a video for fitting a cargo barrier?
Gavin - what is a Cargo barrier? It may be called something else here
Mike
G'day Mike. Maybe you call them Dog guards or similar. We install them to ensure all our gear....tools, tents, coolers stay put in the rear cargo area. Regards, Gavin
Hi Mike. Before I started watching, I wondered how you were going to fix through the seal. Using the soldering iron is a great idea - another top tip. Loving it. Simon.
I use the same method for headliners!
Looks brilliant! No idea where my floor plates came from,
but I get a great view of the road underneath with mine. ;)
nice work mike
Checker plate floor pans in mine with
Tek screws 😂
ACME “spire nuts”. 😉
They call them J nuts here! I could not think of a common word!
You beat me to it! Always knew the self tapping screw types as Spire Clips.
Also called Spiralok, Speed Nut, Spring Nut, Tinnerman nut,
@@BritannicaRestorations Or Speed clips here in Australia
"Blechmutter" here - literally "sheet metal nut", so also not very in-spired :)
Time to get creative with the Singer machine.
I have a full set of leather seats!
@@BritannicaRestorations Lot's of material to play with :)
Are you planning on extending the gear lever or is it within reach? Looking good.
when I bent the shift forwards it was a bit to far to reach =- but I have a plan!!
@@BritannicaRestorations Using a medieval rack to lengthen you arms is not a plan Mike.
Top job mate 👍👍
Getting there!
I always thought those clips were called Salter Truarc retainers. Showing my age there 😂
John Chetwynd We used them a lot at work, the drawings called them Spire Clips.
That is looking good Mike. It must have given you a good sense of achievement to have the floor and tunnel in.
Coming on - the gear shift is being naughty but nowt we cannot sort!
@@BritannicaRestorations Looking forward to see the Heath Robinson Gear Lever
Coming on a treat Mike, most Defenders I work on have 20+ years of cow muck and dog hair ground into the floor!!
Robert Mallinson. Not to mention corn and barley growing inside the footwells.
This one's got Polar Bear dung and moose hair.
How about this matting, or is this the one you mentioned? www.wrightoffroad.com/r380_mat.htm
No - the Td5 had a black mat for the floor and tunnel in one piece
Those heavy mats are ok, but cost a fortune to ship, are quite difficult to manage on your own and didn't make a vast lot of difference in noise reduction compared to regular rubber mats in my opinion
Those mats were developed using the same material that’s on JCB back hoe floors, that’s why there so heavy.
The main gear lever looks to me like it needs to be lengthened anyway. I suspect you will simply extend the connection putting the gear lever knob easily into your hand which will allow the rubber gear lever gaiter/trim and closed cell noise proofing to be fitted.
When I bent the shift it was a little too far forwards - but I have a cunning plan!
the shift itself is super light!!