dvb668w

dvb668w

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Evening All,

I’ve been offered an early SWB SER III petrol hat shouldn’t need too much work for the MOT J but as this will be my Ummm got to think about this 6th Land Rover and I want to attempt a bit of a rebuild.


Problem number one, no garage or off road parking!


I understand this land rover still has the 10 inch drums so an upgrade to 11 inch breaks would be nice but when I change the drums and back plates (and shoes)


Question number one, will I need to replace the wheel cylinders and any other bits for the upgrade?


The engine sounds like it could do with a little TLC, I was trying to get a price on a re bore but,



Question Number two, would it be better to rebuild a ser 3 petrol engine or look at a TDI engine swap?

There you go, a few questions to play around with :)


But if anyone knows of garage space big enough for a land rover close to Gillingham Kent please pm me :5bbigear:


Thanks Andy H
 
Well I called my insurance and they said when a car has a larger engine fitted they add £1 per extra HP (or something like that)

I thought the DVLA would just need to be notified of the change, ide be keeping the gearbox but may slip in a pair of RR diff’s and the larger drums but that would be about it. It may be able of 70mph but keeping it on the road at that speed Humm, its still 40 years old lol

Yes a garage for a few weeks would be good, but they are as rare as hens teeth round here !
 
What about using 109 axles?

Got a 200Di in mine and the gearings good with a standard box with an overdrive.........sits at 70 happily
 
Thinking about it, of course. My front is a late series3.

Might be easier to swop big lumps rather than stripping and rebuilding with a mixture of bits if you've not got a garage and you can pick up complete axles cheap enough......twas just a thought
 
I'm a bit of an O/D fan myself, very useful between 3rd and 4th as well as a 5th and I've had no problems even using hard towing.

Of course he could stick on 750's as well and that should more than take care of gearing
 
there is something special about a series motor ,thats my next project since i swapped my light weight 88 soft top cant decide between 2 1/4 petrol or 200 tdi power and noise
 
Petrols nice but as a daily driver tis a bit rich for my tastes. I like the 200Di, halfshafts stay in 1 piece, similar (slightly better) performance to a 2 1/4 petrol but +30mpg even with my 109 loaded and with MT's.
Probably considerably better with the 88 but I can never get the speedo to work for more than 5 mins at a time.
Does vibrate a lot though....I have rubber washers between body panels and linkages all over the place just to stay sane
 
ive got 3 x 88s from a customer who went bust also had some 2oo discos x3 but scrapping them cant scrap the series though and cant understand mutilating 1s for trialers,did put 200 in light weight went well but not quite the same 109 is a good vehicle would like one
 
I'm mutulating a series 1!! but in my defence it was destructed many years ago and will never be original!!

Over Drive all the way!!!
 
Now you’re talking. I have had this convocation on here before. I have a 109 camper that Ide love to swap the prima engine for a nice 200tdi. I was quoted around £1,000.00 to supply and fit something about having to chop the chassis about?
The Prima is good once you’re up to speed, but any hills and you have to start all over again 
Did you do the work yourself?
 
borristherat said:
bit cold not to own a garage.
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Rubbish! I've done everything with no garage, 200tdi last winter, currently doing the body work on the Spitfire, admittedly for this one I put a marquee up to do it in to protect the body work, but, you don't need a garage to do anything!
 
dvb668w said:
Now you’re talking. I have had this convocation on here before. I have a 109 camper that Ide love to swap the prima engine for a nice 200tdi. I was quoted around £1,000.00 to supply and fit something about having to chop the chassis about?
The Prima is good once you’re up to speed, but any hills and you have to start all over again 
Did you do the work yourself?
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Who you talking to.....me? The quote buttons kinda useful :rolleyes:

Yes I did it with a helping hand or 2 :D

Didn't have to chop the chassis but then its fitted as a Di but I know there's ways of fitting the turbo without cutting it up.
Mine was a 6cyl which meant I had to move the engine mounts further forwards but you dont need to if yours was a 2 1/4.
One thing I found that Iwasn't expecting is the bell-housing on a 6cyl box is different and wont fit a 200 :eek::mad: so changed to a standard series box.

Apart from that tis just a matter of pumbing it in :D
 
dvb668w said:
I thought the DVLA would just need to be notified of the change, ide be keeping the gearbox but may slip in a pair of RR diff’s and the larger drums but that would be about it. It may be able of 70mph but keeping it on the road at that speed Humm, its still 40 years old lol
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I have the perfect solution for you....

I have a set of military axles that came of my series 3,already fitted with 3.54 diffs (rangie) and 11 inch drums on the front axle ;) let me know if your interested
 
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