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Ok, thanks.
I have searched spanish ITV (our MoT test equivalent) and aparently, if emission sticker is not present, general emission limits will rule, based on plate age. This limits are generally higher than those on sticker.
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Hi all,
What's de meaning of those label/stickers in engine bay?
Today I have seen a Suzuki at a garage. They removed the sticker and cleaned with thinner "so it could pass the MoT test".
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Built in Japan and sold as Mitsubishi, Peugeot and Citroen C-Zero.
64hp and a tad more torque than a diesel 2.25. A written of donor could make a great starting point for a conversion.
Unlike a 300+hp Tesla motor swap, maintaining similar to stock power will make it legal to retain original brakes an no major modifications will be needed.
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Hi all,
According to what I have found on the web, an 88" rear shock absorber has bigger stroke than a air sprung Rangie one. Is this correct? Has the RR rear shock just 7" of travel?
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Thanks! Certainly much better early Defender stubs, easier to obtain.
Defender cut and resplined halfshafts seem doable (I have 10 spline diff).
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Pictured vehicle are not revolvers, but some old hydraulic car jacks that allow drop and rotation. Not a road legal vehicle by the way...
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Hi all,
Has someone ever tried to discard shacles and run a flat end leaf setup?
An inverted "U" shape clip will provide lateral location ant that way the leafs could dislocate for extra wheel drop (with longer shocks).
Pictured Bill van Snolkel's (aka William Larnam) Wildfing, with telescopic shackles and a suspension flex that dislocating leafs could emulate.
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Hi all,
Been some months without visiting the forum.
Due to limited budget I'm selling some parts of my 88 project. Cost of parts not a problem, but obtaining an engineer's approval here in Spain for beeing road legal is over three times what I paid for the landy!
Big modifications, like coiler axles, engine swap, big tyres are now out of the list for me.
My "wide" axles will be just big offset wheels (that is about 150€ for the engineer's report + 70€ at MoT station for the new track width beeing written in our V5 equivalent).
So, how can I (cheaply) convert my Santana (factory disc brake) to CV?
After some searching at this forum I undestand that converting railkos to bearings and some grinding will make space for AEU2522 CVs.
But, what about stub axles?
I dont want complete coiler swivels, since I have a Santana PAS that will only work with series swivels.
Gremlin said that early RR stubs fit series swivels, done before in this forum. Who? How? Part numbers? Difference between early RR and later coiler parts?
TIA
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On 10/5/2019 at 12:03 PM, Bowie69 said:
the testing has to be done for each body variant, so SWB, LWB, but also estate, pickup, chassis cab, van, hi cap, double cab pickup, and who knows what else
Again, easy to solve. Rover had just one body option back in 1948. Doors, canvas or whatever else needed to be purchased separately.
Dfender 90 NAS where going to be marketed that way, but finally were not because of the logistics involved in stocking and delivering canvas and hardtops all along USA.
https://jalopnik.com/that-time-mercedes-made-four-cars-in-one-1760123043/amp
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As for the body design...they could buy from the Andalusian goverment (Santana) or iranian Moratab Pazhan the building rights for a real Land Rover body.
They could even create an offshore company in Galicia, NW Spain, in the city of Viveiro. One of it's rural neighbourhoods is called LANDROVE. Perfect name for the car!
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Hi all,
Both M51 and M57 list the plate where the bellhousing bolts to as ERR4378, but they have different drawings. One is one "round" piece, the other just half of it. Which is the correct number for the round one piece ?
Is it exclusive to Land Rover or is same as BMW/Opel/Vauxhall?
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Hi all,
Have seen adaptor plates/kits for matching the 2007 on Defender six speed gearbox Getrag GFT MT82 to 200, 300Tdi, Td5 and MB OM606.
Has someone ever adapted it to a BMW M51/57 lump?
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A bit long, but this video explains the benefits of the system.
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10 hours ago, BogMonster said:
need more engine braking from an auto you can always pop it in reverse and feather the throttle
Have thought about that, but aparently will make the box to explode ;-).
I'm not thinking about auto conversion for my 88. I have a bmw m51 engine, ex Opel Omega, with non electronic Bosch ve6 pump. Not fitted yet, as I have not decided what box to use. A Bertone Freeclimber box/transfer has nearly the same gearing as a Series stock box.
My 88 left the Santana factory with 2.25D, LT85, LT230 and 3.54s. Previous owner fitted 4.7 diffs. That combo is lower than stock, but not as much as I would have expected.
So, for my convesion I'm considering a torque converter with manual! TC will emulate an underdrive and will avoid stalling the engine. Nothing new. Used today by ZF for heavy haulage. In lighter applications was popular between 30 to 60s. Plymouth HyDrive, Porsche Sportomatic, VW Autostick...
A manually locking TC will be the best, but I don't know If I could make the lockup work when not used as expected with an auto box.
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Ok, thanks. The only auto vehicle I have droven off road was a Freelander. Really nice, I was able to complete the same course I made previously with a Defender. But that Freelander relyed in HDC for going downhill.
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Well, these days I have been reading a bit about torque converters and auto boxes.
As far as I have undersood, older non computer controlled boxes will lock up the converter only in 4th gear above 50mph.
So, at low speeds, it will never lock and will "slip".
Now imagine: off road, downhill. Torque converter slipping and offering no engine braking. Brakes cause wheels to lock.
Is this what actually ocurs or automatics aren't that bad?
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Can someone identify this pulley? Seen at Hardcastle's book.
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Unfortunatelly there are no 220v mains where I have the 88.
I have quick disconnects in the battery, and use them.
I have seen a caravan with a wind turbine, but its quite pricey compared to solar panels.
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Hi all,
My 88" is now on its third year of "baja temporal" status (Spain's equivalent to UK SORN).
One year after last firing up. Flat battery lead to permanent damage.
So, here is the question: has someone tried to connect one of those cheapo solar power systems intended for caravans to SORNed vehicles for maintaining the battery continiously topped?
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Hi all,
I have seen some 6x6 with freewheeling at the rear axle.
Question is, can a front fw be bolted to the rear axle with nowhere to bolt the castellated nut in half shaft?
Pic from youtube
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Nice to hear that. I will be hapier using Rover parts instead of yota ones! Also I think will be easier to obtain engineers report for making it road legal if parts from the "same" car make are used.
Will check rover saloon disc size vs rr/disco ones.
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2 hours ago, FridgeFreezer said:
He might be persuaded to dip his toe back in for a discussion like this - he actually bought the trialler to Seven Sisters a year or two ago so it's still around.
Nice to hear that he is still arround with his trialler.
Did the trialler keep using its sliding frame one link?
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Hi all,
Due to personal circumstances I'm not using this forum as frequently as I used to, but I'm still working on crazy vapour builds that I hope to build some day into my 88 (four years now with "baja temporal", Spain's equivalent to UK SORN).
I may end, after an engine swap, with a gearbox and tbox combo with no transmisson handbrake.
Has ever someone adapted some kind of axle handbrake to a disc brake LR rear axle?
Maybe adapting some toyota cable operated calipers?
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More than five years after this excellent build...what can be said? Any problem/things to do different if done again?
I think that a mix of this and Bill's Wildfing rear one link on leafs will give what I want for my 88.
UK Defender 110 SP04VRK spotted in Lugo
in Getting out and about
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I spotted this beauty parked in front of my door in Lugo (Spain).
Is any of you?