British Cross Country Championship BXCC
Kimble, who previously competed in rallying, will return to motorsport after a break of 14 years. After making his debut at Bovington Andy Price is planning on contesting a full Freelander season this year. Before Bovington Price had not done any competition driving and he had not even driven offroad but he took his Freelander to a class win. 鈥淚 spent two season servicing Freelanders in the BCCC and I really wanted to drive in an event,鈥?said Price. 鈥淚 was able to get my standard Freelander ready for Bovington in just two weeks and the event was amazing. To top it off I got a class win! 鈥淚鈥檝e done a lot of work to the car over the winter including strengthening the front end and upgrading the suspension. My aim for the season is to finish every event and hopefully push for a few trophies once we鈥檝e got the car set-up sorted. I know I鈥檓 a rookie and the competition will be tough, a lad has got to dream though! The event will take place in Myherin forest with access to the site gained via 鈥淭he Arch鈥?picnic area. The action will start at 10am on Saturday and will go on to around 5pm with Sunday鈥檚 runs starting at 9am. The event is expected to finish early on Sunday afternoon.
I've read some reviews about servicing car here and it sounded terrible, but I want to be clear that my 5 star review is for my experience purchasing a vehicle from out of state. Brad was out of the office for family emergency, but he still texted me back and forth and even contacted Daniel to hold the car for me. He made sure I was taken good care of from start to finish. Since I knew the market for the car I wanted, I was serious to close same day. Brad was able to work with me to make it a win for everyone. I negotiated the price with Brad, then I immediately called the bank and got my pre-approval shortly after. At first, Brad attempted to have me submit a credit application with the dealership. Once I had the pre-approval, Daniel attempted it, as well. But I don't blame them.
Ok, I started tearing down my 1960 109 Land Rover. For awhile now I have been sourcing parts mainly trying to find a solid bulkhead(firewall) to replace the rotted out one. I think I may be on to one but am awaiting notification that it is available. In the meantime I decided that since I needed to replace or repair the bulkhead that I might as well get along on doing some of that work. The Kodiak heater was mounted on the engine side of the rotten footwell so that had to go. In order to remove it I needed to first remove the right side front wing(fender). It looks like it had not been off since the Kodiak had been installed. Every thing was rusted together or rusted thru! I pulled the passenger side door with its rotten door top. My neighbor Bob helped me with some of the hard to reach stuff since my arms were not long enough to go around the wing.
My curiosity would have got the better of me and I would have gone for a start - pinhole or not. Well we thought about it and then decided that the best course of action would be to make sure that everything was good before carrying on. We are going to remove the radiator and have a local company have a look at it, they repair a lot of oilfield equipment and are willing to take a peek, it can't hurt. Well the moment of truth arrived at about 1720 our time (MDT) when we tried to start the engine and it went like a charm. Engine runs like a clock but now I have to read the owners manual to figure out how the air suspension works, as this photo shows, I have not got a clue, also registering/activating the IIDTool, tomorrow will be busy! Very well done - congratulations.
So after lots of hammering, drilling, hammering on my hand, grinding the welds I got the footwell out. It took 6 hours to remove the heater and footwell. I removed the footwell because I have read that one should do that first and weld in the new one so that bulkhead remains lined up and doesn't get warped. Now I need to know if I am going to weld in the new footwell or just replace the bulkhead. Last Friday I took all the bolts holding the roof to the sides out. I am ready to take it off then strip the sides off. The roof will need to have the rivets drilled out and the skin to gutter seal replaced. I want to insulate and cover the inside of the roof and the sides while they are off. Once I have the top off I can remove the windscreen and the seatbase and rear tub.
