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Mar 31, 2013 23:13:21 GMT
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I have been promising to do a thread for a long time now, and had lots of questions off pics, I am really hopeless on a computer and I always end up having a hissy fit and giving up. Welcome the iPad........all of a sudden the whole world of doing stuff on the net seems easy, I would compare the two like and trying to operate understand a new car, or doing the same on something from the 70s. ;D
So, 10 years ago I needed something to haul curse word about in, and I wanted a convertible , so decided on this, 1 years mot (goodness knows how) 14 careful owners ( local) and a dent or 2
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Mar 31, 2013 23:15:51 GMT
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Mar 31, 2013 23:19:06 GMT
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Mar 31, 2013 23:30:20 GMT
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As you can see, it was a mess, I used it a lot the first summer as I had just moved house and had trees and soil to get rid of. I should point out that at this time it had the original 2 1/4 petrol and standard. It would do 40 mph flat out and did around 12 mpg! The oil light went out only when cold and it was really shot, it always started though!
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Mar 31, 2013 23:31:58 GMT
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Dude you can't leave us hanging like this......
What engine does it have?
More pics required!!
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Koos
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Mar 31, 2013 23:33:32 GMT
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This just about sums it up....
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Mar 31, 2013 23:41:17 GMT
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The following winter it was left parked up in the garden, shortly after the previous pic, the roof was taken off and it got stolen by the local scrap scumbags. It was a little cold with no roof or heater. The following year I managed to get some bits together and had a tidying up session, I replaced the rear tub, welded it up, and over time it slowly got better, and I used it more.
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Mar 31, 2013 23:42:02 GMT
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Mar 31, 2013 23:43:06 GMT
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Mar 31, 2013 23:49:08 GMT
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Mar 31, 2013 23:49:41 GMT
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Mar 31, 2013 23:55:13 GMT
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Early pics are scarce, I did not have a digi camera in those days, only a phone. My lodger at the time took some pics, henc some are better than others. :-) This is a good pic, drivers side looks good, but I still had the bashed left wing......
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Mar 31, 2013 23:55:59 GMT
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Mar 31, 2013 23:57:06 GMT
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Mar 31, 2013 23:57:54 GMT
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Mar 31, 2013 23:59:01 GMT
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I forgot to say, that a couple of years after I got it, I bought an adaptor kit and put in an Isuzu 2.5 out of a brava pick up. This was a MASSIVE step forwards in that it did 30 mpg It was very noisy and slow, but affordable. I then went on to fit overdrive and,3.54 diffs from a range rover. I was happy with this set up until I could find a 2.8, which happened a year or so after. The 2.8 was great, so good in fact that it would eat gearboxes- about one a year! After 4(?) I decided to go modern and purchased a kit from Ashcroft to enable the lt 77 gearbox from a defender to be fitted to the series transfer case. The lt 77 and the adaptor are 4" longer than the original box, and the options are to move the transfer box back, which means messing with mountings, pops and new lever positions, or the engine forwards- which was done!
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With the gain in power came the lack of brakes. The brakes had always been an issue and actually quite scary at times , following a near miss I took the plunge and bought a brake disc kit from Zeus. These have been brilliant, was expensive at the time, but considering I was tending to the brakes most weeks, this stopped, and I have just replaced the pads after 6 years. Brilliant!. With the brakes sorted, I went on to poly bush all the suspension, and replaced the rusty springs with parabolic version, these are amazing, the ride was so good after seized leaf springs, but they were cheap ones and after a couple of years the front drivers side sagged in a big way! I replaced them with good quality ones and they are still spot on after 4-5 years.
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