Landrover 90- new engine time!

[DubFan]

started some work on the chassis. New rear crossmember ordered, no idea when it'll turn up as no one is planning on doing any work for the next 4 bloody days! (except me! )

Perfect way to spend the long bank holiday weekend 

I drove my mates old 110 County once, it was a V8 monster, cool though. It blew the head gasket though which meant it was laid up for a couple of months before it got a replacement engine from a Rangey. Sadly he sold it, but it was a hoot to drive around.

Good luck with the refurb.

[shepgti]

Just need to get a new welding mask and it should be on by the weekend!

[shepgti]

f**k me that was shot.

Love working on my dads custom 100" defender...

Just recently cleaned, sanded/brushed, rust etche primered, then painted the chassis and axles.

Their are grease nipples on the prop and mmm somewhere else, keep these greased up!
A bit of the linkage is prone to wear, pop the gaitor off under the knobs and have a gander for any wear.
Need to catch that paintwork! going to be using some zinc oxide primer on my dads doors soon to stop them rotting away 

It's a Land Rover, something will always need doing.

thats a good thing


weird how the rear of the cahssis was quiet rotten but the front is mint 

[Diamond Hell]

Land Rovers - often used for putting boats in salt water - hence the rotten rear of chassis.

That said my mate, Sean's just spent a couple of weeks replacing the rear section of his K-plate TDI, so it may just be that 'they all do that, sir'.

He had to do the front outriggers as well.  Have you poked about with yours yet? 

That's the thing about Land Rover's - they're so badly engineered, there's always something f*cked.

[shepgti]

the boats and salt water may be the reason.


the outriggers and mint, not even any surface rust (think it must have been waxoiled for alot of its life)

was watching a landrover workshop dvd earlier and the phrase 'when working on a defender, expect every bolt to break' 


my main critism of the design is that they are designed for offroading yet everything underneath is a mud/water trap!

[dazzawest1987]

Most defenders/ land rover's rear cross members do seen to rot. I work at a independant land rover place and have lost count of how many I've seen,  the outriggers are pretty common aswell.

That's exactly why I don't like working on them, everything I go to undo is rusty and corroded.

That said would still love one though.
Putting a 200tdi in it sounds like a plan, the defender boys at work swear by them

[shepgti]

Never driven a 200tdi but have heard good things about them plus they can be tuned 

[Diamond Hell]

Correction!

Putting a 200tdi in it sounds like a plan, the defender boys at work swear at them

Only because the TD motor that came before it was so gutless and ineffectual.

[Gavv8]

Worked on quite a few LT77's on rover sd1's, always thought they were fairly decent boxes.

[shepgti]

New rear crossmember welded on and red oxided
for the mo

 

New shiney bits arrived today. Fitted the shocks and doing the exhaust tommorow