PICKING PARTS - A GOOD SCORE

After stripping off some panel work on Saturday we decided to give "Forrest" a good clean so we took over the degreaser and high pressure cleaner.

Here are the before and after shots.

Pretty black and greasy.

What a difference a good wash makes.

As my job description is "acquirer of parts" I've been searching online for some of the items on our list.  Now that we know a little more about "Forrest" and what we want to achieve we have created a shopping list.  When searching for specific parts without an obvious part number it's important to get the terminology correct.   For example, we know we are missing some of the heater components but we didn't know the correct name for them.  Our "go to" at the moment is the Australian Land Rover Owners Forum which is a Godsend. 

We found a front bumper with a few small dents that is better than what we have now, which is no bumper at all.  A search online revealed an add on Gumtree for Series Land Rovers in Wanneroo that may have  available parts.  Even though we were not really sure what we would find, we definitely spotted a suitable front bumper and it was worth the 45 minute one way drive up there just to get the bumper and to also check out the vehicles in his yard.  As far as we're concerned, we feel like we struck gold.

A new one would have cost us $275 - grinning.

Our box of Gold $150.00 - are we easily pleased?

Don't get distracted by the crappy duct/hose on the heater box, it just came along for the ride.

Garry managed to pull this out of the heater matrix and attached our garden hose to it on trickle to find that the water flows through beautifully so there is hope for the heater matrix yet.