shaggydefender
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so basicly i found this defender for £200 sat in a farm yard , it had been stood there in the grass for 5 years with no wheels , the farm baught it as a spares vehicle for thier identical one , i had it as it was minus the engine as they wouldnt sell that no matter what i offered , so i removed the engine on site for them and got the landy taken away to asses, as i had to scrape to get the cash to buy it there was no way this was going to be an all singing all dancing galved chassis project , i purchased a few parts for £100 including bonnet,doors,spare screen and galvanised tub cappings, found a discovery in my local scrapyard so decided to use the chassis and 24 spline axles from that , i was thinking of making it a 100" but that would mean buying a new tub and more work again , as my tub was in perfect condition i decided to shorten the chassis while adding strenthing mods to avoid rock denting of the rails
work done so far
body removed from 90 along with gearbox and diffs , rest has been chucked in scrap
body removed from discovery
rear end chopped and middle has been shortend to 92.9 inches
discoverys transfer box fitted to the defenders gearbox and mounted into the chassis
discos engine was beyond repair so was stripped and then scrapped
auto box has been kept to sell on
