Landrover 90 Hybrid
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Hi all
Been a long time lurker and thought i would finally post up my current project, I will cover my past fleet in another post sometime soon. First time poster and first time using photobucket so hopefully all goes well!
When i was 18 i started to get into off roading and landrovers i bought myself an old clapped out range rover for £500 quid and spent the next 4 months trying to get back on the road:
After a couple of years the dreaded rust took its toll and i decided to scrap it taking off all the bits and pieces that were any good, a mates dad had a landrover that i didn't know alot about that wasn't running but he only wanted £500 for it so off i went to get it!
It turned out to be a Range rover chassis from a 1976 vehicle with a Series 3 tub, bulkhead and truck cab with a 90 front end and a 3.5 v8 running on twin SU's
There was no wiring to the back and the fuel system wasn't plumbed in, one long weekend later i had run new pipes and fuel pump (off my old rangerover) wired in the rear lights (no fog or reverse helped) and installed the 3 inch lift from my range rover, it passed its MOT with flying colours! result.
It then proceeded to get quite abused at a couple of pay and play days and slowly more modified: Extended brake hose, cranked radius arms, larger insa turbo tyres,winch, at one such day down at the old shoreham quarry the V8 decided after having rather a large drink of muddy water that it had had enough and cooked itself.
This is when i decided to convert it to a 200 tdi, i sourced an old G reg discovery and removed the engine and gearbox all in one (angle grinder to the body and a tractor fork made life easy) we cut of the existing engine mounts in the 90 and welded on the 200 tdi engine mounts, now everyone says fitting a 200tdi discovery engine to a 90 is difficult due to the footwells but this fitted like a dream, it seems like the engine is slightly further forward compared to other conversions but it all worked and lined up except a shortened rear prop (had to lose 50mm?)
Whilst it was in pieces i gave it a quick respray and it looked like this:
About this time new baby and new house came about and the landrover was stripped of its roof and put in the garage, to finally emerge 4 years later as below, all it needed was a charged battery and a few tweaks of the cabling:
Once i had evicted the mice from behind the dash ( i took the front plate of and couldnt see anything apart from paper little buggers!) i took it down to the MOT and apart from a few small bits like a light de-chroming and the styres hitting the radius arms it sailed through!
Now i am not the smallest bloke being 6 ft 5 and about 17 stone, the 90 had been fitted with range rover seats at some point and to say it was a little cramped would be the understatement of the year, myself and a mate entered mudmonsters 2012 challenge and decided we better have a roll cage (whitbread 4x4) whilst it was going to the shop to be done i finally though; bugger it and decided to rip out the entire of the floor pan and drop it 4 inchs so i could see out the wind screen properly, so the destruction began:
Fuel tank is the boot if anyone wondered!
So the build started
Heavy duty sheet metal ontop of 25 x 25 box section to take a new floor
New floor pans and seat box
Including new tunnel surround and chequer plate floor
Whilst this was in progress the roll cage started to come together:
Mocked up:
Then powder coated:
Welded in place then the welds sprayed, Also second hand bucket seats installed £68 ebay bargin
Perfect height for me my co-driver has to use my 6 yr olds booster seat
Thats about it, i have tidied all the wiring up and installed a busbar terminal rather than having dozens of cable running to the battery two new isolater switches for the Challenge (lucas classic from IEM £9 each rated at 300 amp continous perfect!) Also discovered when my welder was in there that the bulkhead is galavanised! should last for years yet
Installed a T max split charge and put in my own bespoke switch panel, she performed perfectly at a test day at box grove recently, I can't wait for the challenge in two weeks!
Just read back through that lot!! got a bit carried away, hopefully didnt bore to many of you!!
thanks
Edited to add full size pictures!
Been a long time lurker and thought i would finally post up my current project, I will cover my past fleet in another post sometime soon. First time poster and first time using photobucket so hopefully all goes well!
When i was 18 i started to get into off roading and landrovers i bought myself an old clapped out range rover for £500 quid and spent the next 4 months trying to get back on the road:
After a couple of years the dreaded rust took its toll and i decided to scrap it taking off all the bits and pieces that were any good, a mates dad had a landrover that i didn't know alot about that wasn't running but he only wanted £500 for it so off i went to get it!
It turned out to be a Range rover chassis from a 1976 vehicle with a Series 3 tub, bulkhead and truck cab with a 90 front end and a 3.5 v8 running on twin SU's
There was no wiring to the back and the fuel system wasn't plumbed in, one long weekend later i had run new pipes and fuel pump (off my old rangerover) wired in the rear lights (no fog or reverse helped) and installed the 3 inch lift from my range rover, it passed its MOT with flying colours! result.
It then proceeded to get quite abused at a couple of pay and play days and slowly more modified: Extended brake hose, cranked radius arms, larger insa turbo tyres,winch, at one such day down at the old shoreham quarry the V8 decided after having rather a large drink of muddy water that it had had enough and cooked itself.
This is when i decided to convert it to a 200 tdi, i sourced an old G reg discovery and removed the engine and gearbox all in one (angle grinder to the body and a tractor fork made life easy) we cut of the existing engine mounts in the 90 and welded on the 200 tdi engine mounts, now everyone says fitting a 200tdi discovery engine to a 90 is difficult due to the footwells but this fitted like a dream, it seems like the engine is slightly further forward compared to other conversions but it all worked and lined up except a shortened rear prop (had to lose 50mm?)
Whilst it was in pieces i gave it a quick respray and it looked like this:
About this time new baby and new house came about and the landrover was stripped of its roof and put in the garage, to finally emerge 4 years later as below, all it needed was a charged battery and a few tweaks of the cabling:
Once i had evicted the mice from behind the dash ( i took the front plate of and couldnt see anything apart from paper little buggers!) i took it down to the MOT and apart from a few small bits like a light de-chroming and the styres hitting the radius arms it sailed through!
Now i am not the smallest bloke being 6 ft 5 and about 17 stone, the 90 had been fitted with range rover seats at some point and to say it was a little cramped would be the understatement of the year, myself and a mate entered mudmonsters 2012 challenge and decided we better have a roll cage (whitbread 4x4) whilst it was going to the shop to be done i finally though; bugger it and decided to rip out the entire of the floor pan and drop it 4 inchs so i could see out the wind screen properly, so the destruction began:
Fuel tank is the boot if anyone wondered!
So the build started
Heavy duty sheet metal ontop of 25 x 25 box section to take a new floor
New floor pans and seat box
Including new tunnel surround and chequer plate floor
Whilst this was in progress the roll cage started to come together:
Mocked up:
Then powder coated:
Welded in place then the welds sprayed, Also second hand bucket seats installed £68 ebay bargin
Perfect height for me my co-driver has to use my 6 yr olds booster seat
Thats about it, i have tidied all the wiring up and installed a busbar terminal rather than having dozens of cable running to the battery two new isolater switches for the Challenge (lucas classic from IEM £9 each rated at 300 amp continous perfect!) Also discovered when my welder was in there that the bulkhead is galavanised! should last for years yet
Installed a T max split charge and put in my own bespoke switch panel, she performed perfectly at a test day at box grove recently, I can't wait for the challenge in two weeks!
Just read back through that lot!! got a bit carried away, hopefully didnt bore to many of you!!
thanks
Edited to add full size pictures!
Edited by Muf90 on Friday 23 March 14:51
Like the look of yours Buggles what suspension lift are you running on that? looks quite high.
Sods law after running perfectly she blew the oil seal on the rear passenger side Hub and coated the wheel arch, caliper, disc, pads and just about everything close!
After draining the axle the only way i can describe the two week old gear oil is Gloop!! i am guessing my breather is blocked so the axle sucked the mess in through the worst seal (changed the other side a couple of weeks ago) and wrecked the seal. Should only hopefully take a couple of hours to fix and at least the weather is good!
On the plus side, i am more than happy with my new dash panel, once i get all the switches i want mounted and finished i will pop it down to my mate who owns a powder coating shop which will get rid of all the light scratches then some chrome pan head screws and done!
Sods law after running perfectly she blew the oil seal on the rear passenger side Hub and coated the wheel arch, caliper, disc, pads and just about everything close!
After draining the axle the only way i can describe the two week old gear oil is Gloop!! i am guessing my breather is blocked so the axle sucked the mess in through the worst seal (changed the other side a couple of weeks ago) and wrecked the seal. Should only hopefully take a couple of hours to fix and at least the weather is good!
On the plus side, i am more than happy with my new dash panel, once i get all the switches i want mounted and finished i will pop it down to my mate who owns a powder coating shop which will get rid of all the light scratches then some chrome pan head screws and done!
Yep, not a chance of it going back in, been thinking about putting another couple of layers of brick on the garage need to talk the neighbour round and get rid of the asbestos first.
Finished rebuilding the back axle (getting good at this. all bearings, seals, pads and a hyper clean both sides in 4 hours! to much bloody practise!) Took it over to the tip yesterday and it cleared the 7ft 2 barrier by an inch!
Finally got the T max split charge working as well, ended up with a faulty solenoid last week but can't fault the service they sent another out within two days, wiring the system in with a winch isolator and battery isolater was a nightmare the solenoid was triggering itself on link then bypassing my main battery, All fun and games.
And just to add insult to injury snapped the banjo bolt on the rear breather and have now got the extractor tool stuck in the hole! typical landrover: love them one minute hate them the next.
Gratuitous photo prior to work,
not me driving!
Finished rebuilding the back axle (getting good at this. all bearings, seals, pads and a hyper clean both sides in 4 hours! to much bloody practise!) Took it over to the tip yesterday and it cleared the 7ft 2 barrier by an inch!
Finally got the T max split charge working as well, ended up with a faulty solenoid last week but can't fault the service they sent another out within two days, wiring the system in with a winch isolator and battery isolater was a nightmare the solenoid was triggering itself on link then bypassing my main battery, All fun and games.
And just to add insult to injury snapped the banjo bolt on the rear breather and have now got the extractor tool stuck in the hole! typical landrover: love them one minute hate them the next.
Gratuitous photo prior to work,
not me driving!
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