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I wouldn't worry about painting however I would give it a good clean and Polish inside and out. You'll be surprised how much better it will look and therefore more sale able. As others have said UK ticket and registration.
Mike
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When I started to build my ibex I looked at all sorts of engines. My conclusions were ANY non lr engine probably has more power great but will kill the gearbox and axles. In my case it came down to td5 or the 200tdi I had sat in the garage. Land rover spent millions making sure their chosen engine wouldn't destroy the gearbox it was bolted to. I'm sure you can guess what I fitted. My long term plan is to convert to td5 when I have to.
So to your problem your best and most simple solution is to replace the td5s with new td5s this has a secondary benefit you will then have a pile of spare td5 parts.
Mike
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I was going to say are you sure it's a rear stub axle and not a front. Although I thought the only difference was a recession for the bronze bush on the front.
Mike
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Harness are great in the right vehicle: a racer or competition truck however both must have a cage and therefore somewhere to mount the harness. If you have them in a truck without a cage and roll it there is no way you can move when the papermache roof structure collapses.
I had a harness in my mini, mini jem and tomcat. You need to get real good at reversing in your mirrors and are a pain getting in and out.
Mike
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I've had both notchy and just tight all round.
Mike
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Wd40 the hell out of the column uj's and then work them till they free up.
Mike
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Should swap straight over unless you have a really early disco axle which were imperial. PCD is the same but holes are smaller Easy to tell as the drive flanges bolts don't fit.
Front iirc you need to swap cvs as well as shafts and possibly drive flanges.
Rear either shafts from disco or defender.
Mike
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8 minutes ago, Bandog said:
Its a camel, not a cow but gets called worse
Can you start at the beginning as you are not making an sense. What vehicle, what mods and what do you want to do.
Mike
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The point of pulling it with no replacement is two fold one everyone and I mean everyone is talking about it. 2 because the old finished a year or two ago no one will be able to directly compare them fairly. I call that inspired marketing.
Mike
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I've got two varta "stop start" battery's as they are agm like optima but half the price. I think they are listed as 110 amp hour.
Mike
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I quite often roll the wheel on to my foot to get it on the studs.
Mike
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Pretty much every thing you've listed above would trigger the need for an IVA except the chassis swap to coils (that's IVA no matter what). Most of the others could be done on there own but the trouble is if you do each one one at a time you still end up with a truck that needs an IVA once there all done. As for registration basically if you use most of one vehicle you get an age related plate not tax exempt though. If it's a bitsa you get a q interestingly I want my ibex on a q as if it's q plated everyone knows it's been tested at some point.
Mike
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My tomcat was 1840kg in road trim including spare wheel but excluding driver. So yes you can still loose some but your not to bad.
Mike
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If it was off a suzuki then it would be from an early swift as the only cars I've broken are minis, land rovers and a swift.
Mike
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Unless you charge lead goes to the battery side of the cut off once started it will continue to run with the battery disconnected until the alternator goes bang or the wiring melts.
Mike
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4 hours ago, honitonhobbit said:
Don't buy a Defender
Annoyingly never a truer word spoken.
I'm just waiting for the day I go out and they aren't there. Both my trucks are very distinctive, beaten to death, old and parked outside my bedroom window. There is nothing any of us can do other than do as much of the above as possible and hope for the best.
Mike
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I had a timing belt idler bearing cracking the timing chest this caused a tapping noise at the front of the engine. When I removed the cover there was a witness Mark on it from the bearing tapping the cover. The down side is its difficult and expensive to get and replace the timing chest.
Mike
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Just had a rummage through parts catalogues. It would appear 90/110 are metric upto 86 then they went metric fine. Discovery had imperial to start then went metric fine. So on that basis if the axle is the larger rounded mushroom type half shaft aka range rover axles it will be imperial. I know they fitted metric axles to rangies as well these should have the later separate drive flanges.
Mike
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On my 525 that shaft has a uj on one end and the other end is balled with two pins sticking out both of these have metal sleeves on. It all looks a bit heath Robinson but works well and doesn't seem to wear.
Mike
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Mini was due to swapping from two pistons to four. 45 has longer travel than our 110 but that could be because it's the whole disco system on a 90 pedal box. On reflection your right, assuming range rover and 90 pistons are the same size as they are both 4 pot.
Mike
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I have seen similar to daves but with the tee on the chassis end and two hoses to the caliper. To be fair on minis the longer travel wasn't much and certainly not a problem so I doubt it would be a problem on a 90.
Mike
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Sorry to upset but I have both metric and imperial bolts in stock as the 110 is imperial (yes it is that old) and 45 is metric both have 12 point heads. The only way to check for certain is to remove a bolt.
As to plumbing it is possible to fit the entire twin line system including servo. I have the disco twin line system on 45 but the bias valve needs to be a 90 item. You could link the brake line ports this used to be done on minis when fitting metro 4 pot calipers. You could buy a braided hose that had a link pipe to the second port. It will give you longer pedal travel though.
If it was me I'd just use the correct calipers there is no real advantage of disco/rangey calipers over 90 ones. If you want an upgrade then 110 calipers are what you need.
Mike
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What axle and what half shafts? It doesn't sound to excessive especially if you have separate drive flanges. I'd expect a little less with solid end half shafts.
Mike
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Only a Dutchman in France is daft enough to take on a project such as this. Good luck looks interesting though.
Mike