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Project Kermit 25: A Series Land Rover Full Restoration

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Time to install the engine and gearbox but not before uncocking a cock-up!
Check out Steamwally's channel for lots of Land Rover content:
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His recent gearbox adventure starts with this one:
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Project Kermit is a 1978 Land Rover Series 3 109 (long wheel base) which is being stripped right down and rebuilt with a 200tdi engine and a few other improvements. The other videos in the series can be found in this playlist: • Project Kermit: A Seri...
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@alanlansdell7533 Год назад

That wonderful feeling when you have spent four hours doing something to end up at the point you started.

@samrodian919 Год назад

On the bench that all was should only have taken an hour no more lol, and in my heyday I could have done it with cab and body on in five hours, by hand and no lifting gear. Ask me how I know lol

@randomgoose Год назад

You're doing a great job. The right approach and humility too! Honestly, I'd watch you rewire a plug.

@regtitch5200 Год назад

😅🤣😂

@ShedTV Год назад

You're so right about having a big workshop. I had to give mine up when we moved house and I've never stopped going on about it!

@steamwally Год назад

Great progress, that's going to be one very well sorted Series. Thanks for the shout out, appreciate it!

@Muttley600 Год назад

It's nice to see you n Robbie working together 🙂

@edgeeffect Год назад

When I was still at infants school, we had a tire fitting bay about 2 doors away from our house... So whenever you get that air-spanner out the sound of it fills me with joy as I'm transported back to my innocent youth. This whole episode seems to be a strange 1970s nostalgia trip for me, 'cus, I mean, just look at the graphic design on that Corteco oil-seal box "it's cosmic man".

@dustymiller7758 Год назад

Well done Max, good job you took the advice and followed up on the fix. Great entertainment, looking forward to the progress.

@alastairmackay4589 Год назад

Nice to see the old Stanley Yankee screwdriver coming out! I bought a set off eBay last year and made a rack for them. Very handy on occasion, and lovely bit of old school engineering. Keep er lit!

@chad2886 Год назад

It's really coming together. I couldn't help but notice you've reroofed your house with solar panels. One of your first videos I watched was a tour of your homestead, it's come along way since then. Great to see the progress over the years and would be interested in seeing a updated tour of your place and the much improved power system. As someone that lives off grid with solar and battery bank primary system and generator backup I seem to never have enough power without running the generator more than I'd like.

@MartsGarage Год назад

Excellent work, Max. Take a tip from me from my experience with Hot Rods. If pushing anything with open wheels, always push on the top of the tyre. You get a 2:1 advantage compared to pushing on the frame. I'm enjoying this build, Kermit really will be a minter after all this work. All the best, Mart in Solihull.

@1unsung971 Год назад

How is life in Solihull? I left Hall Green in 1990 to live in New Zealand. thatcher's Poll Tax was the final straw.

@alastairmackay4589 Год назад

‘and on that bombshell, cheerio!’ lol

@timjw5704 Год назад

Shouting "Gasket" then you realised. Then laughing at you doing a brilliant Benny Hill impression walking up the yard on time lapse! Great video Max

@jjt1093 Год назад

Too add again :) I had to completely build my own exhaust manifold and down pipe, plus the rest of the exhaust disco 200tdi into left hand drive series 3 :)

@mceajc Год назад

Progress! Excellent to see things coming together, despite setbacks.

@matthewwhitney8103 Год назад

Is anyone else not getting notifications from this channel ? And yes I got them turned on 😂

@tomjohns8498 Год назад

Thank you for showing us it's fun to own a landrover

@1unsung971 Год назад

SO THOROUGH!!! Bravo Sir. Foreman and Wilms' RU-vid channel has a very engaging, frequently humorous and thorough rebuild of a Series 1, that Gavin was gifted. It had a V8 in it!!! All the best Maestro.

@Alonsel3 Год назад

I would have made that exact same mistake! Thankful for your uploads to protect your viewers with series vehicles 🤙

@adamswire9152 Год назад

Loving the old school glass meths bottle! Suspiciously like a hop flask...

@dandandan389 Год назад

Good to see solid progress, moving the thing was a nice bit of strongman training for you!

@Patmac74 Год назад

You do realise that you are starting to give me the landrover bug again........

@richardsiddon610 Год назад

Great content Max! Keep chipping away…

@gonzo_the_great1675 Год назад

Adding extra precautions to a land rover is 'multiple points of failure'. Made me chuckle. A while ago I was helping a guy at work change his alternator in the carpark. He was struggling, lying under the car in a puddle, holding a maglite in his teeth. As I had to do once upon a time. I came home and got on with servicing the bike, in a warm and lit workshop. With a cuppa and radio4 playing. I realised how lucky I was.

@rbrtcrowther Год назад

Excellent work sir make sure you temporarily fit the rear tub in order to set the bulkhead up with the correct door gaps 👍

@philthorpe4549 Год назад

Something you might want to consider whilst it's all accessible Max. Many years ago, I replaced the drum handbrake on my defender with an X-Brake cable operated disc. It's not cheap, around 250 quid, but it's one of the best mods I ever did. The drum inevitable fails and just isn't very good. The disc is a rock solid piece of kit that has never even needed adjusting and I swear it would hold the beast on the side of a cliff. Lovely to see your progress buddy.

@maximusironthumper Год назад

I was tempted but it's a lot more than that now!

@philthorpe4549 Год назад

For what it's worth, I'm fairly sure the original used a cable operated front brake from an old JCB. One of those might still be findable and then all you'd need would be a man who can fabricate brackets. Wonder where one of those could be found...🤔 ;)

@MarktheOddJob Год назад

@@maximusironthumper I've got one and they're not fantastic to be honest. Maybe worth it if you're constantly off roading and filling the drum with mud but they are far too expensive to buy or even to replace the pads.

@petroldrinker Год назад

Look like your Somerset weather hasn't been much better than my North Devon weather. Wet and grey and more mud than I can ever remember. Another great video Max, thank you.

@freddyokel Год назад

It's amazing to think that sometime in the vaguely near future, I'll get to see Kermit in better condition than I remember him from my late teens/early twenties!

@samrodian919 Год назад

And also in far better condition than when he left Solihull as a nipper!

@jonny7491 Год назад

Now there’s a cliffhanger. I’m not mechanically minded, but I’m loving it.

@johncochrane2707 Год назад

Nice work Max have a great 2023!

@yako0000 Год назад

Project Kermit is unbelievably satisfying to watch. i rebuilt a 1975 Ford truck 20 years ago basically the same as this but i cut a lot of corners and didn't have much money to spend on it.

@ManicEngine Год назад

Nice save, thanks John!

@realnutteruk1 Год назад

Britannica Restorations Ltd is another great channel for all things LR... Mike's been dismantling a Series 3 gearbox over the last few episodes....

@cliveramsbotty6077 Год назад

there's a strange sort of relief you feel at the very moment you accept you did something wrong and decide to go back and get it right, regardless of how much effort will be involved. kind of a strange boost in self respect

@chasephotos4780 Год назад

When I had my 2.5 n/a diesel rebuilt it practically pi$$ed oil from the crank seal. I couldn't park it in anyone's driveway because of the leakage. So, engine back out and new seal put in dry. No leaks, from there at least, since. Your video, and honesty, just saved a bunch of home mechanics a lot of aggravation.

@bigears4014 Год назад

You learn every day

@nicholasviney5975 Год назад

It's all progress, good to see things being added

@richardhasler6718 Год назад

Good work Max, soon you will have two working Landrovers, a motorbike and a Zil!

@marcusmundim8703 Год назад

Awsome job 👏🏻

@mattryan9427 Год назад

Hey Max, I enjoy your channel so much. You mentioned in this video you are limited in your knowledge about transfer cases. Well I also am subscribed to a channel called Brittanica Restoration, he is out in Canada. You may get a lot out of his videos. Highly recommend it. Cheers for now.

@thesundaycarpenter2514 Год назад

Great video as usual. It is nice to see how calm you are in the face of adversity. I think I would have been throwing spanners and cursing quite a bit if this were me. Keep up the great work.

@Patmac74 Год назад

Just remembering back doing an automatic box change in a frankenstein landrover 110, gearbox out, everything done, or so we thought, the guy who was with me didn't scrape the old gasket off completely, everything reassembled, filled with oil and.............. Drip drip drip....... Box back out, disassembled, cleaned, reassembled correctly....... 16 hours of gearbox shenanigans, and still failed. Don't you just love landrover 😂😂

@dairyfarmerdan Год назад

Coming along nicely looking forward to the next installment

@richardmaxfield8339 Год назад

Enjoyed every minute, haven't a clue on engines. but great to watch....take care

@willtricks9432 Год назад

Thanks for 6.40, the great leveler, we all have those moments.

@jednmorf Год назад

A good mechanic Just says ar well Good job

@burlatsdemontaigne6147 Год назад

Nice going Thumper. I like steam wally's old engine resto's too.

@kevinsimpson7114 Год назад

Another fantastic instalment. Waiting in eager anticipation for the next video. 👍🏻👌🏻

@paulwalker427 Год назад

fantastic update

@Kangsteri Год назад

Rentable workshop space / garage would be nice. I'm glad I have very good neighbors, so I can do some mild fast blacksmithing and spray paint some parts in my balcony during winter :D

@martinjustice Год назад

A stitch in time saves nine. If it's not going to be green then I'm going with gray scale kamo or Longleat Zebra stripes.

@drsocrates3 Год назад

Great to see the progress. It has to be Marine Blue!

@markyorkshireuk Год назад

Great job 👍 Colour is a very personal choice Mine is Blue Mark Yorkshire England

@kevinisaac9139 Год назад

We all make mistakes Max great video very interesting looking forward to seeing the next one 👍

@pgprice1663 Год назад

good luck

@Ecosse57 Год назад

Milestone! Eager to see what color... sorry, colour you have chosen.

@paulstevenson9093 Год назад

I think it's going to be blue!

@welsh58boy Год назад

Tidy 😀👍

@dazzx10r Год назад

It's coming along nicely Max, you do know that you can 'clock' the turbo into a position that's more suitable for you don't you? Just Google clocking turbo for ideas. I did this on my old Defender with an aftermarket turbo.

@lazylad8544 Год назад

Slowly Slowly easy does it. Your making great progress can't wait for next part👍👍

@zenzen9131 Год назад

Makes my day when seeing one of your videos is posted :)

@pabsocs Год назад

Great x

@growingknowledge Год назад

A great video and a tidied workshop to match the tidy mind reflected in your other interesting videos. Happy New Year !

@simonmercer9530 Год назад

Looking absolutely awesome. Talking of Awesome what every happened to Project Awesome ?

@SantaClaw Год назад

Proper Job! And Keep it up matey, we're rooting for you and the project.

@Chr.U.Cas1622 Год назад

👍👌👏 2) 😱 Not green??? But I love nearly everything that is green. A Landrover simply has to be green! Best regards, luck and especially health to all of you.

@jameskerr5756 Год назад

Great job. Liking the old skool yankee screwdriver use. I'd love a workshop. Scratching around on the driveway under the vehicle isn't much fun especially this time of year. Looking forward to the next episode.

@petec3658 Год назад

Hey Max, if you haven’t sorted the exhaust already by now then why not just buy a standard 300tdi front pipe, there’s only one 300tdi front pipe, and modify to suit the series chassis. It should be pretty simple that way I think.

@hoppy2903 Год назад

Another great vid Sir Maximus

@thedude2178 Год назад

Outstanding progress

@ScorpioxA1 Год назад

Yes and after its installed it must be left a while to shrink into place before being filled with oil. Maybe it is just applicable to defenders.

@feelthewyrd Год назад

thank you max....... from wiltshire. Love your vids and the kermit restore is ace. I know nothing about cars and engines. i havent even got one : ).. cheers.

@Dan88888 Год назад

love the editing - torqued to spec :-) good job!

@koolkats724 Год назад

Nice work Max

@888johnmac Год назад

one of my friends has a motto ' i do it nice because i do it twice ' .. i often tell myself that phrase ( it never makes me fell any better about re-doing work )

@twwanderer Год назад

Definately paint the rocker cover to match your narrowboat bench grinder. Garanteed +5 hp

@DietrichLopan Год назад

I have the Heystee disc brake conversion front and rear on my Series 3 and was able to keep the series brake pedal box by using the 8 inch servo also from Heystee. That servo will mate up to the Defender 110 master cylinder. It works great.

@gonzo_the_great1675 Год назад

BTW, lose the EGR valve. They just put crap in the inlet manifold.

@michelod.i.y.5202 Год назад

Always enjoy, keep up the good work 👍

@pauljenkins2501 Год назад

Thank you for another wonderful video. I am delighted to see that your old 88 Landy is still trundling around! Incidentally, I am reckoning the new one will be blue. I can't decide if it will be Oxford blue (the colour of old coastguard landys) or marine blue (which my old 88 was!)

@samrodian919 Год назад

Max great effort mate! Pity about the seal but shit happens. Not your fault you didn't know. I'd have done the exact same thing but I always packed the inside of the seal with grease.The new overalls a Chrissy prezzie then? lol

@jamesgibson5606 Год назад

Love the videos they are very informative and interesting.

@Garrett053 Год назад

Great work! I would love to see some kind of proof that the microscopic amount of oil will continue to lead more of the oil out from the motor. That sounds unbelievable. But it does not matter, now you know that it is done right. Thanks for all the good videos.

@hammyh1165 Год назад

Hard to believe but it's true, these type of seals must be installed dry or they'll leak right away.

@bchant19 Год назад

Nice work Max proper job 👍 My guess is bulk head is gonna be black I think I spot a recurring theme with the paint scheme so far.

@twocvbloke Год назад

Rather sucks about having to re-do the seals, but you know what they say, "We do it right cos we do it twice!", plus it got better parts anyway, so sorted out and should last longer... :D

@rob9060 Год назад

Did the same thing with the crankshaft seal except I had it back in a running vehicle before realising its was leaking and had to strip back out from underneath, learning the hard way. Also got the second one from Turners been in 8 years now and still good.

@casto- Год назад

We’ve all been there, thinking you’ve cracked on really well to find something not right… usually a spare bolt for me🤦‍♂. Kermit sis coming on well, definitely easier with a roof over you and a hoist! I worked on my first unimog in the mud and cold trying to fit parts in a field 🥶 thankfully I’ve a work shop now to keep the worst off!😁

@jackiechan8840 Год назад

GOD BLESS JOHN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@tommythorpe2022 Год назад

Great progress. Jealous of the hoist.

@jamiecleeves7921 Год назад

wow all on your own max brilliant stuff the army wound of loved you

@HP3.14 Год назад

To quote another RU-vidr: I enjoy my job so much I do it twice. 😀

@mcgonner2143 Год назад

I've seen a Discovery in polished Alu and clearvarnish, her in HH Germany, it's look amasing.....

@the_midnight_mechanic_stua1503 Год назад

I have a great upgrade for cardboard floor sheet, I use 3 or 4 rubber floor mats from Halford, makes working on my car on the floor way easier

@milcommguy5927 Год назад

Good Job

@g06sfj76 Год назад

Jeez! Long time since I've seen someone using a "Yankee"

@garypoulton7311 Год назад

Another thing, which does not apply here, but it is recommended that the seal has at least 6 hours to recover its shape before being used, if you fit with the nylon collar tool.

@awalk5177 Год назад

A workshop is an essential for work like this, a polytunnel is also good because you get really good light when working on such things as putting a Landrover together. This is, and all the other video's too, are all really good content. Also it is good to learn something new every day, even if it is just a crankshaft seal. Thanks for another great video. I wonder will you move the Landrover to the polytunnel for the finishing off of the body once it is on the chassis? Then you will still have the workshop free.

@richardcox9981 Год назад

looks like a 200tdi defender exhaust may fit .they fit tight to the engine and follow the chassis rail .

@raymondpenn1066 Год назад

Without mistakes one never improves.

@jonathansmythe6273 Год назад

Love the old meths bottle. when it goes clear you know its old. still cant drink it though.

@highdownmartin Год назад

Did my series one Spice. Which was a slightly dark orange ( same colour as the large dinky series one model from the fifties. Did the wheels maroon/ red. Looked great.