Daan
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Have to say, coolnvintage do nice builds and nice photographing, but the cars are nothing particularly special: from what I saw, they all have the original engine and gearbox, just changed springs, shocks and wheels (I am not a fan of the black wolf wheels with wheel spacers, but I am probably alone in this), and up cycled the interior.
They have a nice finish, but nothing to me that would warrant the 6 figure price on them.
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A mentioned, wheel spacers are bringing all sort of problems; If you want to go wider like a defender, fit coil sprung axles, while continuing to use leaf springs.
This also gives you disc brakes and higher gearing.
A few people on here did it by fitting spring perches to the axles to match the leaf springs.
Daan
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It looks the same (granted the casting number is different).
Anyone on here has a 70th anniversary defender to have a look at?
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The bolt pattern is obviously different from the standard box, but with some fabwork that should be ok. On the 70th anniversary, it looks like there is a spacer plate to bolt between the box and chassis. I have never seen a 70th anniversary Landy, so I am guessing. The orientation is different on the P38, so the idle shaft sits outside the chassis rail, as opposed to inside the rail for the defender. I have got a LHD p38 box for this reason, so the idler shaft sits again on the inside (of a RHD vehicle).
I can post a picky tonight if you like. Plan is to fit the box over the winter months, hopefully for my landy to be used again next summer.
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I'd say it is a bit wide, but it depends what you want to do with the car. It is just that for off roading in a forest you might have to contend with trees which are narrower than your wheels, and that can only be solved with a chainsaw. That said, if you manage to take out 1.5 inch off offset on the wheels, its probably give you what you want. The biggest problem is probably going to be the steering ball joints on the front axle.
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Most professional race cars have hard lines everywhere, except were it needs to be flexible because of wheels moving around. Hard lines balloon less , are lighter and more compact. And cheaper also.
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Does the Volvo not have an expansion tank you can use?
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You can do this, depending on the length of thread you have on your u bolts. But I would start with removing the prop and slacken off the bolts of the shackle a bit. Drive it around for some time and let the springs settle, and do up the shackle bolts again. They tend to sag a little from new, then settle at the right hight.
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This is good:
Range: +260km (official range tests to be finalized)
The Plower defender is a mad Idea in my opinion; I mean we are struggling to get a good range on any normal car, so a 2+ ton brick?
And how far does it gets you off road?
It is a Dutch thing, we are being green here, but where is the genie pack to run it?
Speaking of Dutch inventions, and electric busses, there is (or was) this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superbus_(transport
Thunderbirds are go!
Invented by the only dutch man in space, so it must be good - or so must the politicians have thought, and happily ploughed a lot of taxpayers money in it.
It was very success full; except for the flat batteries after 2 laps of the testing circuit.
Daan
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P38, no question.
The standard ball joint fits, the spline to the steering shaft fits, or at least can be made to fit with standard parts, and last but not least, it is Land rover approved:
What I am planning to do on mine.
Daan
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Cheap? Is this even real?
Sometimes I wish I had an acre of land where I could park any kind of stuff I find.
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Rarer than a series one..
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I'd say, your choice of parts is spot on, as mentioned before, the length of an original V8 gearbox is not going to work with your wheel base. Did you try to fit cap head bolts? I think the clutch cover would still foul though.
I think with this adaptor, you are meant to redrill the flywheel to take a series 3 clutch, which is smaller and would also solve your problem.
If all else fails, just swap the flywheel, or get it machined thinner, the least you can get away with.
edit: just saw this on our very own forum:
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I would suggest a progressive rate springs. And forget what people say about hd, heavy load etc. if there are no numbers to back it up.
To start of with you need to know what your car weighs, how much you are planning to load it up by, and what springs you have currently.
Only then you can make a judgement about what rating will work with what you have, using the Redrover spring list:
http://www.bilashakaflowers.com/LandroverSprings.htm
As mentioned, progressive springs are good, so NTC8572 could be a good one or NRC9462/3.
The progressive Old Man Emu springs listed are OME 762, 759 and 757.
I personally would recommend OME for the springs, and shock absorbers as well.
I have no experience with the airbags, but in the interest of keeping it simple, I would spend my money on OME.
As said Anything that is explained in words with springs is hot air, you need numbers.
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Well, there is progress to report, not much physically to show, but a lot of hours have gone into it. The main focus has been on the Chassis; It is structurally sound, however, the front spring hangers were twisted, so a bit of jigerry pokery with my neighbours portapower was needed:
Also, there is a strip spot welded to the bottom of the chassis rail, and this formed some rust sandwich of about 5mm think in places:
I removed the strip, by drilling off all the spotwelds. This also meant all the spring hangers had to be removed. This means drilling off 2 rivets and grind through 2 welds.
After all this, I replaced the rear crossmember and front bumper.
In jeep world, replacing a cross member means drilling of the rivets, and bolt on a new one, which costs £50.
All good,
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normal persons don't buy an old defender, but might buy a new one.
It is a shame JLR is having a go at people that are improving the Defender, I mean what is the point in this?:
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/jaguar-land-rover-loses-court-battle-twisted-automotive
And they already had to take JLR to court to actually get the 240 land rovers they had ordered.
Why are land rover make enemy's with the very people that like them?
Daan
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Interesting, a bit like a tomcat, but forward control:
They have a big following on facebook, unfortunately Most of the feedback is that it is too expensive.
Daan
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For that money, I would at least want a roof above my head!
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Have to say though, if you like a conversion, the Rotodama does tick many boxes:
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I suppose it has the right colour for LR4x4 livery. Anyone feeling like kicking of some crowd fund raising?
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On 5/2/2019 at 12:56 PM, Daan said:
That's a very old conversation which has been gone over many times; No, it is not in the manual, but it needs a solid link, no car is road legal without it.
The speed restriction is I think 30 MPH for diggers etc, but if you show up with a car with over 300HP, that argument ain't going to fly I reckon.
The first rule refers to Nissan steer by wire and the Citroen CX which had full hydro steering. Both have still a mechanical connection which is temporarily disconnected when the engine is started. The connection is spring loaded, so will drop back in once the engine is off, or the system stops working.
Still, this car has a Panhard rod, so adding the PSC 4500 steering system would be fairly easy to do and would give hydraulic steering with a mechanical link.
I would be keen on doing this, just the 60K euros to buy the car prevents me from it!
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Aluminium portal boxes and weight is 1300 kg. My preferred truck for this kind of thing. Hydro steer would prevent you from getting it road legal in the UK though.
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The almost winning car is for sale:
It would be marriage limiting buying this thing, but 😎.
My life in cars and on bikes - Now show me yours!
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Not that many for me, I tend to stick with what I have for a very long time.
NL:
1 Land rover series 3, which I still own. Bought when I was 17, from news paper delivering round. Intention was to have it running when I got my driving license, which almost succeded.
2 Renault 5 bought from fellow student for a crate of beer. owned for 3 months to get me to a work experience.
3 Fiat 127. Bought for students trackday at Zandvoort. It lasted 3 heats before no2 connecting rod came out
UK:
Peugeot 305 diesel estate very good car
Peugeot 405 stdt estate very good car
Peugeot 406 hdi estate very good car
Peugeot 206 hdi not so good
VW polo Bluemotion Very good car, had it for 7 years and still going.
Mahindra Jeep. has potential.
Daan