bobbing a 110

[honitonhobbit]

My 100" is a bobbed, shortened 110. It is about 3" longer in the overhang than a 90 and uses a 90 underseat tank. If you want picces let me know.

[landrover598]

I'm suprised you didn't make the comment about yours being 3" longer than mine Mr Hobbit I cut my 110 down to the same overhang as 90 and used a 90 underseat tank, You should be able to fit a TD5 90 tank under the rear floor if you cut out the extra crossmember. It's something i would have done if i had a bit more time when i built it

[CrewCab]

My 100" is a bobbed, shortened 110. It is about 3" longer in the overhang than a 90 and uses a 90 underseat tank. If you want picces let me know.

Pictures would be very handy thanks, I'll send you my email address

Cheers

Dave

[muddy]

They do look nice but i reckon you would need to shorten the front to keep it in proportion as i reckon thats where quite few bobbed raingies look a bit odd.

[LR90]

Dave, sorry if I missed it but what engine do you run? I find the underseat tank quite adequate with a TDi and more fuel=more weight. The underseat tank is also benefits from being low and central.

[honitonhobbit]

I find the underseat more than adequate - about 330miles between fill and yellow light

I have aquired a tank that between the seat boxes and takes up about half the rear floor to a hight of about 12". That gives me approx just over 1K more miles. In fact motorway cruising at 65mph should equate to a total of about 1.4K miles. But that is for my next foray to foreign climes

[CrewCab]

It's a chipped TD5 Trev, generally on the road it returns about 27mpg, drops with offroading obviously but a 40 litre tank would be reasonable I suppose. With the winch at the rear of the tub a tank behind it then a flat cover over the top has it's merits as well.

Dave

[Lewis]

My friend has a bobbed traybacked 110, not quite the same as what you are planning but close enough. It is fitted with a 90 underseat tank which is adequate - on the 180ish mile trip from somerset to the midlands, including an hour in town stop start traffic in bath we only had to fill up once at the start (but lost some of this due to a leaking filler neck ) and once on the journey, and we got home with a quarter tank. This is on a 3.9 V8 on 35" simex with a low ratio transfer box

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Lewis

[CrewCab]

Been doing a little reading

The TD5 fuel system ........... <from the manual>

Unlike other Diesel engines, the Td5 has no injection pump. The diesel direct injection system receives fuel at

pressure from a two stage fuel pump located in the fuel tank.

The high pressure stage draws the

low pressure fuel from the fuel filter and pressurises it to a pressure of 4.0 bar (58 lbf.in). The pressurised fuel is

then passed from the pump to the injectors at a flow of 180 litres/hour (47.6 US Gallons/hour).

The fuel pump has a maximum current draw of 15 Amps at 12 Volts

If the fuel pump is working at 4 bar and drawing 15 amps it sounds like a fairly heavy duty piece of kit, so ........ an electric pump off say; a V8, is unlikely to do the job as far as I can see

Any thoughts from the more technically minded out there would be welcome .................... errrrrr ........... I think

Dave

[western]

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Lewis

Repairs are in hand, hopefully it'll be sorted soon.

[steve_a]

Just to reply, since i have more than 2 minutes to spare for change, no, we didn't ever do the bob. He is keeping the 110 as is and doing a major space frame a RR that he bought. Thought looking back at the pictures I do still think it looks great.

We were considering fitting his 110 with an underseat tank for veggie oil running though.

I'm getting tempted to do this myself, I am being seduced by using a discovery day in day out, and going back to the 90 truck cab I feel squished and annoyed - have given some thought to selling it and bobbing our discovery etc. But I'd love to try a 110 and see how that gets on

[Lewis]

Thanks to Trev (LR90) I now have my gallery back

Heres a picture of the bobbed 110, being trayback its not quite what you are doing but it may give you a idea

Please excuse the geek in the photo

[kkk2]

Heres a picture of the bobbed 110, being trayback its not quite what you are doing but it may give you a idea

Here's another:

[jameslwt]

See bit here about how it was shortened. By the way, found out this beastie is up for sale in cornwall!

Land Rover Specification

Spec: 200TDI / Disco main box (LT77), 110 transfer box, Allisport intercooler.

Front Axle: V8 90 4 pinion diff, Ashcroft half shafts.

Rear Axle: Salisbury, ARB air locking 4 pinion diff, standard shafts.

Chassis: 110” shortened by 8” (by engineering firm) and 12” of overhand removed. Double shock mounts. 5mm thick channel section rear cross member. Adjustable tow hitch with jaw and pin.

Rear butt: Very light allow cut down transit tipping butt – looks short (it is) – but 1 cubic metre capacity. Hood sticks but no hood.

Interior: Exmoor trim seats (new cloth). New, small, leather steering wheel. Replacement (not new) dash. Noisekiller acoustics interior (£400 worth)

Other bits:

Steel steering guard, heavy duty track rod (drag link), snorkel, Michelin X2Y military mud tyres (+ 1 brand new spare), Superwinch H14 with recent cable and very heavy duty bumper. Spare windscreen in frame, half tint glass.

Maintenance:

Has been maintained throughout, from 1993, by James Tennant, my local specialist. Anything it needs, it gets. For example, just had a new clutch fitted, also recent started motor and pump overhaul. Invoices to prove.

History:

Was Council 110 2.25 petrol hard top from ’83 to ’92. I bought it with 62,000 miles on it. I then converted it into a 3.9 V8 desert racer, 102” wheelbase, took it to the ’93 Baja 1000 race in Mexico, and finished 4th in the production class. I ran it for a couple of years as a V* (also hardtop with full internal cage) then put in a 200 TDI. Now it is just a standard truck cab but with a tipping body, very useful . . . I have loads of old photos to show various versions of the vehicle.