Re: Re: hi from west yorks
Hi Alex,
We’re moving Jan 23rd, now going back & forth renovating floors and walls. I’d rather be rebuilding my steering relay but I’m still liking it more than my real job.
Well, it’s your Land Rover but I think it’s one to be preserved as-is if possible. I don’t see what you gain by using the Defender roof?
The pictures I made of the trim don’t say 1000 words unfortunately. They’re just pictures of the parts you already found in boxes. I could try to photograph my 90% completed interior tomorrow if the kids give me a minute. Pay close attention to any photos of LR dormobiles you find online and you’ll see how most of it goes together. The feature on Michel’s Dormobile is good:
http://www.journaldu4x4.com/?Dormobile-Land-Rover-109-serie-2
Another tip is that the trim is screwed to the Land Rover, so if you play the game of trying to match the holes in the trim to where they are in the vehicle, you might figure it out.
I’d suggest you photograph the parts you have doubts about and we can all comment on what they are and how they’re installed.
Basically the whole interior is covered in trim: the doors will have the standard Station Wagon black trim, and the rest will be from Martin Walter: white with a plastic edging. The white is some kind of paper, I think, with a medium-deep animal hide pattern. I used waterproof vinyl bathroom wallpaper when I re-made the parts. Actually quite expensive but you don’t need much and it’s been really robust so far.
I count 18 or 19 pieces of white trim. It begins on the C-posts. Some of it is made of sheet steel and some is masonite (“pavatex”, “fiberboard”). Some is flat and some is curved: with water damage it’s all curved! The trim is installed from the bottom upward (if pieces overlap, the higher piece overlaps over the lower piece) and it is screwed in with self-tapping sheet metal screws. The C-posts each have a parallelogram of fiberboard on them, on the side toward the door. The region immediately behind the rear seats, in front of the cooker and wardrobe, has a flat and roughly rectangular piece of fiberboard on special mounting brackets that are rivetted to the wings (a bit of the supporting structure for the tub has been cut out for this trim). The one with a 1″ x 0.5″ notch cut out of it goes by the cooker. Above this, over the tub galvanizing, is a sheet metal corner-piece which is very rusty on mine, at the elbow of the person sitting in the seat. Then a metal sheet covers the roof side, from the side door to the roof side window, wrapping around to the door seal. The two side roof trims are mounted flush with the bottom of the roof gutter and continue upward to a channel in the plastic trim that surrounds the roof cutout. These are curved pieces of fiberboard ca. 1m wide. There are hard wooden strips behind them of ca. 1.25″ x 1″ cross-section, screwed into the gutter (you’ll see the countersunk holes in the roof gutter). The Silent Gliss track is screwed through the trim piece, the gutter, and the wood strip, in that order. The silent gliss covers the joint between the upper and lower trims on the roof. The headliner over the front seats is difficult to form and install. It is held in by the Silent Gliss in the same fashion. There is a front trim piece across the top of the windscreen that I never had and which I’m going to have to imitate from photos. There are assorted flat, rectangular fiberboard pieces around the roof side windows to completely conceal the Land Rover frame and skin. The one over the kitchen has a vinyl strap on it with a small press stud for holding the sink lid up out of the way. The one behind the stove has a clip on a block of wood for holding the cooker lid up. The trim behind the wardrobe’s water bottle carrier is a complicated shape that goes around the window and has a curve at the top to insert in the roof cutout trim. The vertical trim panel on the rear of the roof is flat and has a cutout for the door and a wood strip to support a horizontal trim panel, which is roughly rectangular (and as wide as the rear door opening) and which also fits into the roof cutout trim. This vertical trim piece slides behind the spice rack on mine. On other photos I’ve seen, it seems to end flush with the spice rack and have plastic trim around it, there. The final bit is a 2-piece metal frame around the left rear window by the cooker (the piece cut on a 45-deg angle goes over the other, rectangular piece). Assorted press studs and mounting straps round out the kit.
Removing the original damaged trim with its rusty screws was worse than doing the chrome steering swivels on the front axle!
-Jeremy
