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DieselBoy wrote:Nice, looks good and straight.

Get your self an overdrive for it, or just be happy holding up traffic at 80k's cause your cool

Yeah 80 is about max, any more and the poor engine sounds about ready to explode. Is there much involved in fitting the Fairy, I'm pretty tempted.

Bulletproof wrote:Here is a photo of my series 2 last Sunday. It is coming up for its 54 Biirthday next weekend.

This is quite significant because it is the first production series 2 in the world and was built 6 weeks before the release of the series 2 at the Amsterdam Motor Show.

It still has all the original running gear as well



Cheers Richard

PS L12 Land Rover from 1948 sold last nite for 60,000 pounds. About $120,000NZ

Very very cool, I need your soft top and frame.

My 97 V8 Disco... Just our weekend warrior for the family

very cool, i like your skid plate/recovery point setup. Home made or bought. If bought show me the way, looks easier than arsing about trying to make one on Good friday ready for Easter Saturday run

xj wrote:very cool, i like your skid plate/recovery point setup. Home made or bought. If bought show me the way, looks easier than arsing about trying to make one on Good friday ready for Easter Saturday run

I was lucky enough to pick it up on Trademe for $80 by memory. It's one solid piece of kit for sure.

Overkill wrote:

xj wrote:very cool, i like your skid plate/recovery point setup. Home made or bought. If bought show me the way, looks easier than arsing about trying to make one on Good friday ready for Easter Saturday run

I was lucky enough to pick it up on Trademe for $80 by memory. It's one solid piece of kit for sure.

I'm heading in a different direction now.... kinda... the plate as it sits on your waka would perhaps protrude a little too far forward. My radiator's rear-bound soon, and the chassis is going to be a little shorter at the front too.

This is my 1973 series III being used, had her over 3 years now. Runs a 2850cc (173) holden motor.

200Tdi

UBZ wrote:
200Tdi

Think I need one of those on my driveway.

New 202 powered toy, would love to get a Diesel Defender one day

Had this for a couple months now...cheapish for a Defender off trademe...the rust might have scared everyone off...nothing that some hard work hasn't sorted though

WTF

oh thats that place in Tibet where they have that tribe of mini people. It's ok guys theres nothing wrong with the landy. your not missing out on the oversize model

[youtube]Range Rover in hill climb test.[/youtube]

The Range Rover in the video is undergoing testing before it gets tidied up for painting . The hill is actually higher and steeper than it appears in the vid.

My new landy picked it up off trademe with some mods.

needs a few window repairs and seems to be sitting a bit lop sided down to the drivers side? maybe a shock?

V8 with 33" Simexs, air lockers front and rear, safari snorkel and winch.
New clutch system master,slave and hoses.
New brake pads
new hub seals/wheel bearings
catalytic converters both removed for more air flow.
New spark plugs and leads
Off roader 9500 winch
Bull bars front and rear
50mm spring lift and 50mm body lift.

seems to drive well drove it down from Auckland and went like a dream.

nice disco. i saw this on trade me.

looking at getting chinese lockers for mine. do yours seem all good?

Have not taken it out yet will report back after the weekend

Just bought my first Land Rover. It is a series 2a SWB with a landcruiser 3400cc diesel engine and landcruiser transmission. Planning on getting it this weekend and doing some work on it. It needs some rust underneath removed, and some of the wiring tidied up. Hopefully it'll be WOF'd and on the road shortly.

44jetboat wrote:nice disco. i saw this on trade me.

looking at getting chinese lockers for mine. do yours seem all good?

I bought a Chinese locker for my 96 disco. Had some issues with air leaks from the seal which pressurized the diff and blew oil back up the airline (due to blocked breather). Pedro sorted me out with a new ARB seal and a mod to the clip that holds it in place (poorly copied early ARB design). Goes good now.

I guess you get what you pay for. They work fine, but are not as well made as the genuine thing and you may have to get some minor mods done to get it working right.

this is my camo-ish rangey, guards chopped, snorkel fitted, 32 inch super swampers and no mufflers in the exhaust pipe..

Mine at the moment -

(why oh why cant i get it smaller on this screen??? Its tiny on photo bucket)

Mine at the moment -

(well i would post them if i could work this fuckn apple bullshit fuked up piece of shit, combined with photofukkits new setup.... arrgh im dying here!)

I see it, I see it

Looking

who did that, i didnt do that... it was like huge... ahh i give up

xj wrote:who did that, i didnt do that... it was like huge... ahh i give up

What kind of wheels are those mate? What's the offset?

yo, theyre 0 offset aftermarket white steelies (courtesy of lilpigzuk who may correct me if im wrong) with 25mm bolt on spacers and weld in beadlock rings stitched in from summit racing in the US.

If i recall the rims were $100 each and the rings worked out to $55.00 nzd each delivered. Engineer buddy stitched em on for a box. the spacers were $100 each too.
So $255.00 for a -25mm offset beadlocked rim

Nice one!

In the market for some wheels next year. I want a decent offset but road legal...

Have u put the radiator in the back here. Have u bent many stearing arms.

ant-neil wrote:Have u put the radiator in the back here. Have u bent many stearing arms.

me???? radiator's in the back with twin fans plumbed into the original wiring.
Haven't bent any arms, nor has the other one I wheel with that's set up in a similar fashion. Tierods though need strengthening. Good ol landrover spares (lilpigzuk) does aftermarket beefy ones. I just sleeved a bigger pipe over mine, and me mate stitched angle iron to his though.