Panel beating, power steering, paint and personality || Electric Land Rover Conversion
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- The aluminium body panels (or ‘Birmabright’ as they call it) are one of the things that makes old Land Rovers great candidates for electric conversion. In hindsight a smart choice, but originally just a reaction to a shortage of steel in Britain after WW2.
But aluminium is much much harder to panel beat than steel. Every old Land Rover has a few dents and we’re not trying to hide them. “Fixing the problems but leaving the character” is perhaps how best to describe our approach. No body filler, just perfect paint over a lifetime of knocks and dents.
We apply a special underbody coat to help minimise road noise and protect against scratches and chips. We found a water based product made out of recycled tyres that essentially vulcanises rubber to the metal. We’re always looking for ways to use more recycled materials and less harsh chemicals.
We're building electric vehicles for adventure at www.jauntmotor... starting with our 1971 Series 2a Land Rover 'Juniper'
Another great installment. It's not just the content that I enjoy, its the way it's presented. I like the 'feel' of each episode. Keep up the great work!
Thanks Stuart
My very first car was a IIa and I would love to have another one, but electric. Amazing and inspirational restoration.
Right on!
I’m about to dive in a project like this and I’m watching all your videos !
It's all looking great, loving your work :-) Cheers Steve
Thanks Steve, as is your conversion. I feel like you’re catching up to us. We’ve gotta get together and have some kind of electric Land Rover tug of war in the new year
@@davidmbudge Cheers Dave, ours is a longer term project, probably will another year or so before it hits the road, mabye more... just gone up to 1 day a week working on it so sloooow progress. An EV Landy hook up would be great at some sage though!!.
I love the attention to detail you’re giving the project, and just because Juniper is a prototype, that doesn’t mean she should be botched - she can join the fleet or becomes someone’s private vehicle at the end of the job. Furthermore, it’s easier t
I see what’s going on and work on a clean, solid vehicle rather than an oily, rusty, broken lump.
I’m very interested in what you’re doing with the steering. It makes good sense to use electric PAS rather than an electric pump for hydraulic PAS. I remember Don saying he got fed up with the pump noise, but also made the argument about the waste of electrical power running a pump near continuously - you could run an accumulator and pressure switch, but the electric PAS is neater and quieter, and should be more efficient. Add the speed variable assistance and it should use very little energy, just kicking in at 10mph and below would be good for most drivers. I used P38 hydraulic steering with great results on my Tdi powered 109, but if I ever get the opportunity to electrify it, then I quite fancy what you’ve done. Would you be willing to show more detail about what system it is and how you’re fitting it?
Thanks Nick. We'll definitely do a deep dive into the power steering once we have it all sorted out. It's a really nice bit of kit and one of the only ways to add power steering to an old Land Rover
You’d be surprised at the number of ways it’s done, some better than others! 😂😂😂
The only thing I hate about Raptor Liner is it makes it seriously hard for the next guy who will rebuild this car 200 years from now.
We'll be putting a bit less carbon into the atmosphere but the payment is the extra raptor liner. We've struggled though a lot of 1970s bitumen spray, what a nightmare.
I had read somewhere that the use of aluminum in automobile manufacture post WWII was an attempt to maintain and preserve the capability of the skills and manufacturing technology necessary to produce aircraft in the case of a future conflict.
Totally in awe of the work you are doing, I own a Series 2a which still has a lot of restoration to complete, curious of the electric power assisted steering, would you be able to give me more details on it?
Will put up a video in the next week or so on power steering ⚡️
The under body spray you’ve used, has it been tested on Aluminium prior to your use? Bonding/etching to Aluminium is a problem for most things - paints, glues, polyurethane etc
Looking great, Dave- are you using pop rivets when reassembling panels and glav trim or are you using pneumaticly peened rivets like the originals?
We're just using pop rivets throughout. Thought long and hard about using the dome rivets where possible, but felt that as you have to use a combination, the dome rivets make the pop rivets look worse. All pop like more recent defenders looks nice and uniform
joshua kampa the cappings are fixed from factory with a combination of solid and pop rivets. About 50/50. Solid are better in some cases but require more tooling and time to install. Solid are good for dissimilar metals where the expansion rate can be different, but that can be solved with good quality structural pop rivets like used in aero industry.
Great video Dave. What prevention measures are you putting in place to minimise further bi-metal corrosion? For example was there any steel brackets etc between your new 1mm sheet and the old tub tray? And in other places?
We're putting as many buffers as we can between dissimilar metals. Rubber buffers etc. The original tray and our new sheet are both aluminium though
Its been really interesting watching the series of videos. Can I ask where you sourced the electric PAS?
I would also love to know more about the electronic PAS unit you are using
Congratulations. Follower from Spain. I would like to mount a electric power stering. Where can i buy it? thanks
It looks a lot like a Toyota GT86 set up, under US$100 on eBay.
@@tvanduyl thanks for your answer
It's a complete kit from EZ Power Steering in the Netherlands. Based on a GM motor, but includes all the components to fit a series Land Rover.
@@Jauntmotors thanks for your help. Are yo thinking on selling the electical kit for overseas?