Daan
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Not sure what this is, did it start as a 109 body as well?
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Look what I found:
I have to say, I don't think it looks out of place.
Some more useful info here, depending on how good your German is?
https://www.blacklandy.eu/blboard/forum/showthread.php?100533-Welche-Stossd%E4mpfer-und-Federn-110-Ambulance
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I think, looking at that video that is plenty capable for 99% of the buying public. If they get the looks right, it will be winner in my opinion.
For the people that want more, there will be plenty of aftermarket business for coil conversions, lift kits, bash plates, live axle swaps etc later on. This is a good thing imo. I don't think it is all as bad as the 18 pages of hate mail would suggest.
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I am looking at replacing my up and over door for a sectional door, and I am trying to move it flush with the outer wall, as this will give me about a foot of extra space. This does mean a bespoke door, but not that much more than a standard one. It does get narrower though.
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Worthy post on our informative forum.
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What makes it tempting is the claimed life span of 12 years, double the light output and much lower current draw. Of course, real life experience may well be different. I cannot see much merit in HOGs comment, especially if it passes MOT. It would mean that the led bulb has caused a crash, which would be hard to prove if the MOT confirms compliance.
But then this is a public forum and HOG has to make sure our great forum is not liable
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There is a replacement bearing , a John Deere water pump shaft (see my build thread), but that probably does not help you much because you need the flange as well. I do agree that it probably worked loose and did this. As a bodge I always carry a shorter belt with me, so If any unnecessary pulley fails you can have a go at changing the routing temporarily (proper Jungle tech, but could save the day). Hope you're back on the road soon.
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I have done a bit of reading up on these; mainly for my VW polo road car that appears to have candle lights in the headlights. From what I gather, the £20 ebay jobbies are best left alone, due to the above mentioned reasons. The more expensive ones, mainly the Philips £150 a set bulbs are much better; They are designed to work with the reflector, and apparently (from another forum) sail through the MOT with regards to there being a good pattern and a plenty of light. I have no experience with them passing an MOT myself though, so don't hold it against me if they don't.
They are technically not road legal as in the car did not pass the vehicle approval test with them fitted. But passing an MOT will do for me.
I would not fit them to my Land rover though, as dunking it bonnet deep wont probably do much good for the fan arrangement. Also, they are much longer bulbs with the fan, so will probably need the bezel cutting to make them fit to a land rover headlight, which would expose them to the front wheels and anything they throw up.
On road cars, they usually fit inside the headlight unit, so will still be sealed and the fan will just circulate air inside the headlight unit, which appears to be enough.
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Congratulations! Is this your first? Our second is now 6 months. All good, and remember, sleep is overrated!
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It is perfectly possible to make your own exhaust if you have the time and skills. I made my own (see my build thread link in my signature). I did this myself, because the design of my car and routing of the exhaust is completely different from anything standard.
But if your car is standard, there is little point, as there is so much out there already in stainless, pretty much exactly what you want. Or you can at least base your exhaust on a standard version.
This thread is running in the series forum about exactly this:
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Have to ask though, has an IBEX ever been stolen? Daan
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Chaps we are going of in a tangent here. we are talking about the best engine, and all we talk about is power curves. How do the fuel consumption figures compare between all the mentioned Land rover engines, as this does potentially decides what is best for you. So the title should really say best engine you can afford to run.
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No that is exhaust emissions. Fuel efficiency is tells us how often it needs filling up. Your wallet basically.
But being dutch, you know that.
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What has happened to fuel consumption? Does that not matter to anyone?
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To be fair to them, that is pretty much how I would be attempting it. The rear axle looks pretty ok to me from the picture, perhaps with a sleeved casing, even the alu portal should be ok if they did it machined from solid out of aluminium 7075 T6. Also, the rover diff will be plenty with a 1:2 reduction upstream, so a Salisbury axle is pretty much pointless.
but I want to see the front: the closed knuckle is not really designed to take these loads, and the Volvo axle has an open knuckle with the bearings about a foot apart. So the question is are they using the standard knuckle or have they redesigned this into something stronger?
It's easy to criticize, but there comes a point were we can't find any more Volvo axles and then how we move forward?
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are you in the wrong gear?
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Well the best engine is the one that works best for your application.
But, the original application for a land rover is for it to be a versatile working vehicle. So you need torque low down the rev range, low fuel consumption, easy to fix in the field and reliable. It's got to be the TDI. Any engine needing electronics to run can be removed from the list for the above requirements. More power from td5 or tdci is nice on the road, and a V8 sounds lovely, but was a land rover designed to drive on the road? No, it can do it, as it is a versatile vehicle, but for the original design brief, the TDI ticks all the boxes.
But that is just an opinion.
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Hammer form as mike described works, I had to do the fold for the rain gutter this way when I lowered my roof.
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Well, it has a roll cage, and now a winch, so it is clearly ready to do a winch challenge.
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This subject has been done to death, here are a few snipets from the past, the first on being the most important. One of the things to keep in mind is that Land rover did fit LED headlights to at least one version of the Defender. So this means, that if you have this brand of headlight, it is factory spec, and therefore legal. For other versions, it is a bit more grey, but I think that if it gives a proper pattern which you can adjust to the right height, they are E-marked and are bright enough, there is no reason why it should not pass.
Here, from the most informative Land rover forum:
Have fun reading this lot!
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drop in the locking pin (or a 9mm drill bit) when the woodruff key on the crank points up. I don't have the hole in the bell house to lock the crank, but I have done more cambelt changes on my landy than I care to remember, so it is no issue.
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Marshall's ambulance 109 onto new chassis
in Modified Vehicle Builds & Special Projects
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Any time, we are the most informative Landrover Forum after all.
Could you post a link? I reckon if you start tearing the 109 body apart, and replace anything steel for ali, you could get the weight down significantly.
I would encourage you to start a build thread on your Landy.
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