Paul D said:
Wanna 3-door body? You've seen my Disco, it's a bit scabby, but also pretty good where many others have rotted .. Much cheapness .. ;)
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Hi Paul

Thanks for the offer

Just the three door quarters are what I would be after, including glass, I haven't got room for another body unfortunately

If you want to break it up, I will be looking to collect parts before too long if all goes to plan

Thanks!
 
200tdi ayre said:
Prologue is done Damage so far :

Light bar broke off (fixed)

Radiator came loose (almost fixed)

Bent track rod (mmeh be right)

Air line came off diff (easy fix)

Absolutely mental, cars have ripped engine out over rocks, bent radius arms rolled and jim marsden has lost 1st gear ...

Mental mental mental
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Holy smokes brother :eek:
 
200tdi ayre said:
Prologue is done Damage so far :

Light bar broke off (fixed)

Radiator came loose (almost fixed)

Bent track rod (mmeh be right)

Air line came off diff (easy fix)

Absolutely mental, cars have ripped engine out over rocks, bent radius arms rolled and jim marsden has lost 1st gear ...

Mental mental mental
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So long as you're enjoying it .. ;)
 
Mr Noisy said:
Hi Paul

Thanks for the offer

Just the three door quarters are what I would be after, including glass, I haven't got room for another body unfortunately

If you want to break it up, I will be looking to collect parts before too long if all goes to plan

Thanks!
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Yeah, eventually I just want the chassis and gearboxes so if no-one else wants a complete body I don't see why I can't split it .. :)
 
Mr Noisy said:
Currently working on a few jetskis to get some funds together, me and my co-driver are rustling a plan for 37" creepies on the disco with no more lift, just tubbing

Probably gonna have to make it a 3 door for it to be feasible

They stand 35.5" tall which is a lot better than true 37" in disco terms
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That surprises me. There's a D1 I've seen a couple of times at our local P&P on 37 inch creepies and they looked fookin huge! I guess that probably being used to seeing 35s that aren't 35s!
 
200tdi ayre said:
Prologue is done Damage so far :

Light bar broke off (fixed)

Radiator came loose (almost fixed)

Bent track rod (mmeh be right)

Air line came off diff (easy fix)

Absolutely mental, cars have ripped engine out over rocks, bent radius arms rolled and jim marsden has lost 1st gear ...

Mental mental mental
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Taking it easy then :D
 
Orch said:
That surprises me. There's a D1 I've seen a couple of times at our local P&P on 37 inch creepies and they looked fookin huge! I guess that probably being used to seeing 35s that aren't 35s!
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That'll be Wiltshire landyman, if it's a metallic green bobtail and theyre 37" mudzilla

But yeah they'll stand around 35" aswell and like you say most 35s are under

Got a shock when I measured my 33s

The key here is to make the 37s fit a 2" lift, nothing more, cannot be doing with big lifts
 
Mr Noisy said:
That'll be Wiltshire landyman, if it's a metallic green bobtail and theyre 37" mudzilla

But yeah they'll stand around 35" aswell and like you say most 35s are under

Got a shock when I measured my 33s

The key here is to make the 37s fit a 2" lift, nothing more, cannot be doing with big lifts
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nah I know what his looks like, these are definitely creepies. Look proper awesome too.

Interested to see how you shoe horn them in!
 
For all concerned, it's still in planning stage but it will happen once ive got tyre money together

Once I've chosen what is most likely tyre and bought them, there's no going back! :D
 
Well we've finished. Well sort of...

We did quite well in the night stages and next day we had the special sections. For the special sections we're paired in groups of 4 ranging from top finishers in the prologue to lowest finishers and we were paired with jim marsden of Gigglepin in gis huge race buggy, so felt quite dwarfed at the start.

But we battled on through the special stages conpleting them 1 by one including all of our group completing a stage that only 1 person had managed before, then the next stage we bust a tyre off the rim and had to retun to the pits to change it so missed 2 stages but made it back and completed the rest making 9 out of 11 which we were pretty happy with :)

Today was the punch hunt and we set off and conpleted a few but then lost power to the front winch so had to return to fix it then headed back out, and on one of the punches we had just completed the punch and trying to get out of the punch and the engine started knocking and had no power, we managed to get out and inspected and came to the conclusion we've either snapped the crank or camshaft or something as serious so that ended our day

But we've surprised alot of people with how the little truck has done and apart from the complete engine failure it's been a pretty damn reliable truck :D

So just waiting for final results now then its head home and complete engine rebuild !!

The fun will go on :)
 
200tdi ayre said:
Well we've finished. Well sort of...

We did quite well in the night stages and next day we had the special sections. For the special sections we're paired in groups of 4 ranging from top finishers in the prologue to lowest finishers and we were paired with jim marsden of Gigglepin in gis huge race buggy, so felt quite dwarfed at the start.

But we battled on through the special stages conpleting them 1 by one including all of our group completing a stage that only 1 person had managed before, then the next stage we bust a tyre off the rim and had to retun to the pits to change it so missed 2 stages but made it back and completed the rest making 9 out of 11 which we were pretty happy with :)

Today was the punch hunt and we set off and conpleted a few but then lost power to the front winch so had to return to fix it then headed back out, and on one of the punches we had just completed the punch and trying to get out of the punch and the engine started knocking and had no power, we managed to get out and inspected and came to the conclusion we've either snapped the crank or camshaft or something as serious so that ended our day

But we've surprised alot of people with how the little truck has done and apart from the complete engine failure it's been a pretty damn reliable truck :D

So just waiting for final results now then its head home and complete engine rebuild !!

The fun will go on :)
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nice job. I'm betting a broken con rod. Shame it ended so soon. But live and learn!
Next time you will have smothed out issues like the winch ect.
How did the d2 axles perfor, did you give them some abuse?
 
Massive respect to you James, that's some good going.

We're you giving the motor death?

Any holes in the block???

Could have lost oil pressure and seized rather than coming apart.

Anyway I'm genuinely impressed :)

Trust your luck to have to team up with Jim :D :D
 
Other than the bust engine, sounds like a good result, whatever the final position!

Seriously, well done. To still be working on it just before you set off and doing as well as you did is a testament to how well made the truck is.

Can't have been bad at all if you're already speaking of re-building and that the fun will go on .. ;)
 
Cheers guys :D it's been a really top weekend :D

The motor got a bit of pain at times when needed but not generally, it was only low power when it died but was on abit of a side slope which doesn't help the oil situation, we'll see when we whip it out tomorrow :) just got to work out then what to either rebuild, or go bigger, or go different I'm not sure yet ...

The axles got plenty of work, lockers 90% of the time around corners jumping over lips, full power action, they were pretty faultless, only problem is I have a air leak on the front diff somewhere but it still worked so left it alone but it will get pulled out when the engine comes out.

Had the results and I came 22nd out of 44 which seeing as I broke down half way through the morning I'm really happy with :D
 
Awesome result .. congratulations .. ;)

Good luck with the rebuilds ..
 
It's very expensive to go bigger to any great degree in a Rover package, but it's lovely light little motor that is pretty happy to keep on truckin, most of the time :D

Certainly suits a little 90 down to the ground

Depends what your BHP goals are I suppose, LSx is a bolt in high output waterproof solution...
 
Mr Noisy said:
It's very expensive to go bigger to any great degree in a Rover package, but it's lovely light little motor that is pretty happy to keep on truckin, most of the time :D

Certainly suits a little 90 down to the ground

Depends what your BHP goals are I suppose, LSx is a bolt in high output waterproof solution...
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an lsx is wayyyy out of my price league at the moment, i may just stick a low - medium RPM torque cam in to try to get abt more out of it but do love the lightness / compactness of the 3.9 plus its bloody simple once you get your head around it,

is there a conersion to change to the later model crank driven oil pump ?

or i may dry sump.
 
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