rhrwilliams

Chassis from Marsland

Went up to have a look - got cam belt done , new lights all round , full service and few other bits - will have years of service after this !

Im happy. He's happy. You are all happy as you won't have to answer lot of silly questions from me. Everyone is happy

Its HPI clear. Thanks for the post Western about taking body off. Ive wimped out though.....There is local guy to me (retired) who has said he will swap it for me, so I'm going to pay him to put it on a galvanised chassis.

Thanks the help everyone. Understood r.e wasting time. I have no time to waste and I am happy to spend some money on it if welding is pointless. I don't have a tele handler I have a Case 1390 with loader. It can lift about a ton at an absolute push so ill use that if it will reach !

I am not going to the DVLA or the Police. Its asking for trouble and the likelihood is I would loose either way; if it were to be identified as a stolen vehicle the insurance company who would have paid out on it would get it back and it would just get scrapped anyway. If it is not identified as stolen I would have a world of pain of having the vehicle trailered away , someone looking at it, probably costs etc. I loose either way. Ok - so I shall not sell it , repair and chassis swap (in the long term) it is. Its worth a lot to me as a working vehicle and I will just accept I cannot sell it without telling person buying it its nicked, and except it will never be worth lots of money in the future. A workhorse it always has been and forever it shall continue ! Is it feasible to weld the chassis up for a MOT / keep it going for another year or so before a chassis swap ? Will the MOT people accept plates welded on the rear cross member etc ? If I swap the chassis (Ive read a few threads on lifting body off in one go) can you do it with a tractor loader and just put straps underneath and lift it off ? It cant weigh more than half a ton ? Famous last works........."How hard can it be"

If A is 1984 the only plausible explanation I can think of is the VIN number is from a 1984 Land Rover Ninety which was registered for the road in 1986. My land rover now has the Vin number for that. The Vin number from the 1984 car has been riveted onto the clutch servo, with the chassis vin number and the windscreen vin plate being removed.

First part of the Vin number is SALLDVBC7AA I have from web research.... SAL (land Rover) LD (defender, 110, 130) V (90" (L/R) B (Defender 3door Station Wagon) C ( 2.5L, inline 4 cylinder, diesel) (NOT F which is tdi Diesel) 7 (gearbox type) A (What year is this ? - one website says this is undefined year, another said 1984) A (solihull)

The plate on the servo is there and matches the log book. One thing that is odd is the front axel appears to be quite old. I don't know much about this as you can probably tell. But it has leather gators on it which my old series had ! Any idea how to tell how old axels are ? The series number is long gone, I have tried scraping off to find serial but its just not there. Are there any other give aways as to investigating its age and whether it has some older parts on it ? Any ideas of cost of getting it welded / plated up for a MOT ? Thanks Richard

Thanks for the replies. To be clear, I am not proposing to sell it and nor would I as a road going vehicle. Someone locally who wants to chop it into a off roader and use the engine etc has offered the money and I have told them the history of it and made it completely clear its for parts etc which they are happy with. They also approached me about it knowing its history, not me trying to sell it to them. I have the original owners details but I only paid £1500 for it a long time ago and it is worth more to me being used on the farm than getting £1500 back. Thus the dilemma.

Hi all. I was wondering if anyone would care to offer me some advice. I have a 1993/4 Defender 200 tdi. I don't use it often, but I do NEED a 4X4 that can be legally driven on the road. It mostly gets used on a farm though. It is however registered as a D reg built 1986. I have had the land rover for years and was in blissful ignorance about its history..... I took it to a specialist Land Rover place a few months ago as it failed its MOT and the guy there said its a ringer as its not a 1986 model. I investigated this further and as it appears the chassis number has been ground off thus being reasonable I think it is def a ringer / clone and not just had an engine swap as I thought ! The chassis is rotten on the rear crossmember and crossmember attachments and it has already had a replacement rear cross member with extensions. There is one rotten out-rigger also . Other than the aforementioned the vehicle is pretty tidy and has MORE than earned its money for me. It owes me nothing. I paid nothing for it (I bought it years ago when defenders were cheap!) I would like some un-biast advise on what to do with it. I have been offered £2500 for it by someone locally to me who knew it sat about in a barn not doing much, where I was completely honest with them and told them I thought it was nicked etc, and this was ok for them as they were taking it to bits to convert into a monster off roader. I am on a budget and only have maximum £2k to spend really on fixing / buying new. So the question; Ho much do you think it would cost and is it feasible to weld it up, get it MOT'd and I still use it on the farm and basically keep it going on a budget ? Chassis looks not ideal to me and especially as ill be using it to tow things. I don't know much about welding up land rovers so advice welcome. Do I get a chassis swap on it, and the issue of it being cloned hopefully disappears with the old chassis or am i pouring money down the drain ? Do I bit the blokes hand off for £2500 and put the £2k towards this and try to buy another one , although £4.5k does not seem to get you much now a days. If you got this far - thanks for reading and any help you can give. Richard