If you want to give me a nice landy LHD with loads of extras then it would be most welcome, but I think the chances of that are very slim so I will have to make do with what I have. But I still could do with a Series 3 LHD as a donor.
So if you know anyone that might have one in a field somewhere then let me know or even some left hand drive parts please.

Slob
Don't you have any lhd parts over there? or can't you just nick a few parts off a froggy landy I'm sure they won't notice!

both mine are RHD and i've only seen one other series around these ear parts

help someone must know where i can get the parts to convert a ser 3 rhd to lhd very cheap please

english111 said:

help someone must know where i can get the parts to convert a ser 3 rhd to lhd very cheap please

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why must someone know?.. i know rhd bits in the uk are cheap.; i know any series bits in france are expensive. i don't know of anyone that converted one which is probably due to the amount of work involved. As i said before you need to change the front cross member to ba able to get the relay in. i think there may be some chassis that have a hole either side for the relay but thats not the norm. and the more i think about it the more bits of the steering yer gonna have to change.
most if not all landy bits in the uk are gonna be RHD and no good to you so your gonna have to buy from abroad where the prices are sky high.. unless you can find someone to give them away for free.

how about you contact that spanish lot that make the santana and see if they will be willing to give you the bits required

Working on the theory that no one person can know everything, then I can only assume that someone out there has knowledge that I don't. Being a positive person I know that eventually I will come across that person, hopefully before I have to leave for The Gambia!

Yes, I have seen the chassis with holes in both sides for the relay and I can get hold of a new front section to fit lhd or rhd.
Its the relay and steering column that I need.

relay should be the same yer just need to reposition the arms, ah think.. there is a column on flea bay france fer about 20 notes and i think you might need steering arms for it, the ones that the track rod and drag link attach to.

ok i think i have a column on its way came any one help with other parts

surely it would be way easier to buy a LHD series III from Jacksons for £150, get someone to donate you £50 and bob's your uncle an LHD for £100 and no fannying around converting one to tuther. S'wat I would do.

I think for 150, it'll need a bit of work, but any lanny at that cost is going to need work to get it to africaland in 2008.

I'm doing the same in a more modern (1989) Ninety, but to be sure of getting there, I'm having to redo so much and Im doing it all myself using free or very cheap salvaged parts. It's still cost me £1600 and that's not including the purchase cost (or indeed a new chassis, but that's my fault for buying one with a shot chassis).

Unless you get donated a good car to begin with, and donated a load of stuff to do work and prep it, and do it all yourself for free, I can't see you getting there in a landy. That's just the way it is. No way. You'll end up breakin down and needing recovered or abandoning it somewhere... remember a desert is not a good place to breakdown!

On a hundred quid buy a cheap modern bulletproof 2wd car chuck a bashplate under it, some bigger wheels and tyres from a scrappy - and that might do it.

Good luck though - it'll be an adventure