Mikep
Active Member
Hi everyone,
I have finally decided that I should put up some photos and a plotted history of the work done to my 1976 Rover 3500 auto since it was purchased last year. I have been following some of the more ambitious projects on this forum and has given me some ideas for some future work but at the moment all that we need to do is rectify a few faults and get the car back to a nice usable condition.
I say we as the car was actually purchased by my Dad as a joint project for the pair of us last year. The only problem we have is that since my Dad retired he moved to the Republic of Ireland but I still live in the UK, but the car is now registered in Ireland as my dad has a large workshop and an inspection pit therefore making working on the car much easier, although I don't get to play with it as much as I would like
The car was purchased locally to me in Hertfordshire so my Dad flew over to drive it back to Ireland. This was a daunting prospect as the 420 mile trip over there was the same amount of mileage the car had done in the last four years! Fortunately it made it in one piece with no issue
The first jobs to rectify was a dodgy gear shift linkage which required a new ball and socket joint on the linkage and a new plastic spherical bush on the gear lever. The fuel tap was leaking so a new seal and screw was fitted and the non-operative brake lights was solved by fitting a new brake light switch which was located by the servo.
Next the main job we had to tackle was tatty interior that had some nasty rotten carpet that we, at the time, thought was due to a leaking rear door seal.
The night before these photos were taken we had a bit of a downpour and there was a lot of standing water in the footwells so the front and rear seats were removed and the carpet ripped out before the car was put into the garage.
Once in the garage the strip down of the interior and removal of the wings and doors commenced.
Fortunately the leak, although it looked bad, hadn't caused any structural damage and all we found was a lot of surface rust under the carpet. The door shuts were very tatty so that was to be tackled first.
To be continued......
I have finally decided that I should put up some photos and a plotted history of the work done to my 1976 Rover 3500 auto since it was purchased last year. I have been following some of the more ambitious projects on this forum and has given me some ideas for some future work but at the moment all that we need to do is rectify a few faults and get the car back to a nice usable condition.
I say we as the car was actually purchased by my Dad as a joint project for the pair of us last year. The only problem we have is that since my Dad retired he moved to the Republic of Ireland but I still live in the UK, but the car is now registered in Ireland as my dad has a large workshop and an inspection pit therefore making working on the car much easier, although I don't get to play with it as much as I would like
The car was purchased locally to me in Hertfordshire so my Dad flew over to drive it back to Ireland. This was a daunting prospect as the 420 mile trip over there was the same amount of mileage the car had done in the last four years! Fortunately it made it in one piece with no issue
The first jobs to rectify was a dodgy gear shift linkage which required a new ball and socket joint on the linkage and a new plastic spherical bush on the gear lever. The fuel tap was leaking so a new seal and screw was fitted and the non-operative brake lights was solved by fitting a new brake light switch which was located by the servo.
Next the main job we had to tackle was tatty interior that had some nasty rotten carpet that we, at the time, thought was due to a leaking rear door seal.
The night before these photos were taken we had a bit of a downpour and there was a lot of standing water in the footwells so the front and rear seats were removed and the carpet ripped out before the car was put into the garage.
Once in the garage the strip down of the interior and removal of the wings and doors commenced.
Fortunately the leak, although it looked bad, hadn't caused any structural damage and all we found was a lot of surface rust under the carpet. The door shuts were very tatty so that was to be tackled first.
To be continued......