this pic probably shows better how far the gearbox needs to go back, the full length of the engine and rad i imagine

Hi Phill well at first i did start off thinking that was a good idea because there would be no need to alter the front and rear propshaft, that is what sent me off down the chevy V8 route as the chevy gearbox will bolt straight up to the transfer box simples a couple of engine mountings and we...

ouch indeed went with a bang one of the cam followers ricocheted around the workshop, serve pain in the wallet ahead i think :rolleyes: :rolleyes::rolleyes:

i think the L322 idea is just me pondering i dont think im going to trip over one going cheap, well not my sort of cheap lol ive been and fetched an autobox from a 4.6 P38 i have a 4.6 block and heads under the bench somewhere but no induction for it if i can find a thor set up i could...

well the TC and ABS dident go off at speed so i guess i will have to investigate it , in other news i have found a cheap autobox with transfer on it so i can bolt it to one of my blocks and use it to mock and check its all going to fit in ok, so that removes the need to strip the P38 for the...

oh for sure im getting to like it, its like driving a comfy arm chair around and i may as well try and fix it before i pull the drive train out as it would be much harder then but probably not necessary as i guess i wont be using the traction control or abs i have even found myself looking for...

now its behaving like a range rover lol i got lights up on the dashboard the ABS and TC are probably linked to each other, how does the traction control work ? does it use the abs pulse count and when it sees one wheel going faster than the others apply the brake on that wheel so as the...

i wont be doing it , it was just idle ponderings

just out of curiosity how much similarity do you think there is between a disco 2 door and a p38 door shape wise ? doable ?

yes i can imagine they do that i will try to resist

one thing i havent worked out yet , when i put it into low range the display says "select neutral" even though im driving about in low it selects all the gears whys it saying select neutral ?

they dont like p38's they are defender through and through lol

not scrap, re purpose, but i am finding it quite nice to drive about so plans might change :rolleyes:

the valves and pipes are still in that box but the compressor is missing, i will get some pics on thursday

if i do dismantle it you can have first dibs on the interior as long as you fetch it, they dont seem to fetch much on ebay so its foc apart from your fuel which wont be insignificant lol

dont think of it as scrapping more repurposing even if i use the engine and box in my iveco i will still shorten the chassis up and make it into some thing fun, and besides the chevy engine and box are nudging ahead slightly for packaging reasons, just waiting for a box of goodies to arrive...

well i found half a day to fiddle with the p38 today treated it to a new battery and a jet wash, engine came up like a new pin, the new battery seems to have caused the becm to wake up from its deep sleep having not run for nearly 2 years, last week it wouldent talk to me no error messages which...

whats a cable tube and whats it do please

i was driving it about today just to see it all works before i start taking things off it and i noticed it has no error messages or faultcodes, the aircompressor for the air suspension is missing as its on springs but it shows no faults does that mean some one has written the air sus out of...

i was having a mooch around the local 4x4 yard today and i found this P38 engine and box on the floor, the interesting bit was it has a speedo drive on the transfer box as pic shows, i might get lucky and find a way of converting to cable drive the same as the classic transferbox had, maybe i...