ThreePointFive

As a professional in the field of abnormal load escorting, I'd rather hope you would be fully read up on the laws and regulations of the activity and would be telling us. Welcome to the forum, though.......

I find this fascinating. I think the bloke would make a great member here, I'd have loved to see this build on a website that isn't trying to sell me tablets to lengthen things other than my Land Rover or to "try this one weird trick that they don't want you to know". I digress. I'm really intrigued by the rear extension and how it was meant to ineract with the 110 HiCap trailer. It's also details like going to huge effort of cutting the floor out with mesh (good idea for so many reasons) but to then leave the filler neck in place. I just find it mind bogglnig, I really want to know more about the thought process. Also, has it been established how that rear extension is held on? The chassis is galvanised and he specifically says there would be no more cutting/welding afterwards, so between that and the fact you can't see any chassis rails or cross member under the mesh, it seems be reliant on the anchoring to the body which might explain it's angle... I'm way to into this.

It looks like a road tyre, an all-terrain and a mud tyre. Prepared for all conditions.

My snarky comment aside, someone put a lot of work into that and I reckon it's well loved. I am curious what the 2nd row doors are from.

I swapped the flywheel from my 3.5 to a 4.0 with a torque converter out of a P38.

Because it beats watching TV and you have something to show for it at the end. What was that about displacement activities...

At least one of those purposes is a canal boat.

Isn't the bearing stopped from rotating by the flat sides being held by the fork?

The underbonnet temperatures are definitely high and I'm getting the sweats in even normal weather. The tune is part of that but it's also the exhausts, they are pretty famous for getting hot, hence Jeff's discovery.

What in the bloody heck is that thing? I want one.

You're right of course, I'd like to just go with heat shields over the hot bits but there's so much ambient heat from the engine, it makes sense to treat the effected area instead. I have just ordered the exhaust wrap and some heat shield material for things like the clutch slave cylinder, while I have the exhaust off I might as well give the underfloor/bulkhead area some attention. I think the wrap will halve the heat at least as the sweat levels are directly proportionate to engine load. There isn't really anywhere to cleanly bolt through apart from the floor plates so I'll have to go with something self adhesive.

Thanks for the suggestions. I might have another way forward as I have a lot of spare Silent Coat sheets and isolator foam that it seems is ok for engine bay areas. In some ways I'd prefer that as it can be fixed in smaller sections around a complex shape, I wish I'd though about this with the engine and gearbox out as I don't know how I'd get rigid aluminium sheets in there. I do want to check with manufacturer before committing to this, though. If not, I'm curious how others made the neceesary standoff required for the aluminium sheet. I don't want to drill loads of holes to secure it through whatever I would use as the spacers.

Same here, I love a morning constitutional I didn't have to dig a hole for.... and to be clear, I definitely don't class you or your car in with that lot. Yours is the definition of "for a purpose".

I think the point was right to be made for letting people do what they want/enjoy. Today I saw a fully kitted up Land Cruiser that really did seem to have every toy possible and an expedition trailer to match, and I instantly thought of this thread. Clearly that guy isn't going to Africa any time soon, so it was definitely a 'because he wants to' car. It was being driven around the outskirts of a Wiltshire suburb, which looked faintly ridiculous, but no more so than the Challenge-spec truck cab 90s rolling around on beadlockers with obligatory rope-around-bumper aesthetic and a paint job that ensures they never see mud. Would a standard campervan be a more livable, more comfortable, better-in-every-way vehicle for the UK? Yes. Does he want to role play the explorer and a large part of the appeal is an amount of fantasy? Also yes. Doesn't bother me though. It really does not effect me or anyone else, so let them do it. However, as much as I get all that, there are some hard facts/truths that need to be acknowledged for overlanding or real harm can occur. It is a sad truth that a lot of overlanding destinations are classed as fragile environments by the FCDO - I am sure that lack of infrastructure is part of the appeal. As others have said, setting out for anywhere like that in a vehicle that looks like it is worth too much money or, worse still, appears to be a military vehicle is just a very bad idea. The irony for me is that means Mr Land Cruiser's car would only really be suitable for the UK, western Europe or the US, and thus massively over-specced for anything it will ever be used for. When you think about it, it actually renders such an expedition vehicle pointless as it can never be taken anywhere you need that kit. I think others have made that point better than me already. But the point remains, if people want to role play as survivalists on campsites that have toilet blocks and a swimming pool, so be it.

...and to think my car gets accused of being monochromatic.

Sorry to revive this thread but I don't want to create my own when a lot of good info is here. I am getting excessive heat into the cabin from the exhausts running under both footwell plates and the seatbox. I have a plan to wrap the exhaust using this stuff. Unlike the Amazon special I had before, this is almost certain to not contain horrendous ingredients of dubious origin. That should deal with most of the problem, but there will still be heat from the engine and transmission that I'd like to remove as it is pretty miserable without AC. I want to put in heat insulation under the floor and up the engne side of bulkhead to the top of the footwells. I have looked at the Aluminium sheet recommended above but it is meant for creating a heat shield around a specific hot thing, so I wonder if it would work as well if affixed directly to the thing you're trying to keep cool. Without the stand-off that a heat shield gives you, I would have thought the heat just leaches through. It will also be difficult to shape accurately to the bulkhead. The only other products that seem to be designed for what I'm wanting are extremely expensive but seem like they would be more effective at keeping heat out, be easier to form to the shape of the bulkhead and add some acoustic damping too. Are there any other products people have tried/are aware of that are meant for covering reasonably large areas but which don't cost £100 for a metre squared?

James T of 4x4 Adventures used to offer one to one tuition, he taught me how to properly control the vehicle when I first got into off road driving and if that isn't the mark of patience and understanding, I don't know what is. https://www.4x4adventures.co.uk/_main/home.htm It would very much be worth getting in touch with him, he runs events across the South West and one of the sites he used for tuition was in Crediton.

I see your rubbish campers and I offer you this gem from a year ago. Annoyingly, it's probably more practical than most other suggestions.... But look at it.

I can measure my 3.5 V8 one that came out when I went for an aluminium one (for extortionate price) if you can wait until after the weekend. ...and probably remind me.

Outstanding design/engineering/workmanship. I hate it.

I'm running out of ideas what else it could be, though having tried to replace some of them before I did the last rebuild (with the cylinder liners), it didn't exactly go well for my brand new cam. The only parts remaining from it's original state are the rocker arms and valves (not the shafts or valve springs) and the pistons. It's ruining my enjoyment of driving it as it just sounds broken. I've spent a lot of money to end up with something I don't like driving.

I have very noisy lifters/valves/springs/rockers/I don't know what, so I'd be very interested to hear if new lifters solve it.

It's definitely a stud. I found a photo I took of the box when I took it off the first time... should have looked sooner.

The foam filled tyres section of the above website appears to be in latin, something along the lines of "love is pain". Not sure I see the link myself.

I agree. It's convinced me to do a lot less whinging about far smaller issues, but consequently I now don't post.