show us your land rover

[300bhp/ton]

blueST said:

Hard-Drive said:

We (me and the little man) had no such excitement...thank feck as I would have started feeling a bit guilty about taking him round if we had. I did ask the marshall first if he reckoned it was fairly safe and he said it would be fine apart from a bit of excitement on that hill for vehicles on roady tyres or people who couldn't drive. What tyres were you on? Hand on heart I genuinely don't think we broke traction once the whole way round...I'm really impressed with my STTs..

You're STTs are a good bit closer to a full mud tyre than my Conti Cross Contact ATs.

STT’s are pretty tame as a mud tyre. Probably not too bad on sandy gravely Terrain. But get on some really sloppy clay or chalk mud and you’ll want something a bit more aggressive.

The flip side the STT’s ride nice on the road and actually work pretty well in the snow too.

[popeyewhite]

Mine (in it's natural environment )

[SlowcoachIII]

Series III on a day out

[Jonny TVR]

popeyewhite said:

Mine (in it's natural environment )

Looks like mine at the moment, Just got some new grabber AT3's for mine which I'm very pleased with so far

[popeyewhite]

Jonny TVR said:

Looks like mine at the moment, Just got some new grabber AT3's for mine which I'm very pleased with so far

Those are 32.5" Yokohama Geolandar ATs on mine at the mo (plus 2" lift). Previously I had GG AT2s on a Grand Cherokee and thought them very good. I'd say the Geolandars are better in the wet than the AT2s though, but can't compare them to the AT3, Are the AT3s noisy at all? It's my only (slight) complaint about the Geolandars...they get a bit droney on smooth surfaces.

[Jonny TVR]

popeyewhite said:

Those are 32.5" Yokohama Geolandar ATs on mine at the mo (plus 2" lift). Previously I had GG AT2s on a Grand Cherokee and thought them very good. I'd say the Geolandars are better in the wet than the AT2s though, but can't compare them to the AT3, Are the AT3s noisy at all? It's my only (slight) complaint about the Geolandars...they get a bit droney on smooth surfaces.

Finding them very quite indeed and no more drone than the standard tyres I had on previously. Going on a salisbury plain tour in Feb to test them out offroad then.

[Muddle238]

The old girl likes it topless - took her out for a quick open-top run today, no seat heaters in this!

[530dTPhil]

Mine is a little way from going for a drive topless or not. Acquired a few weeks ago and allegedly one owner and 22,000 miles.

Bulkhead has been professionally restored and chassis has been rebuilt but it's all been left gathering dust for a while. I will strip it back to nothing and start again when time permits.
All the bits appear to be there, just in the wrong order, but mainly no order.

It's a 1964 88" Series 2A.

[Jonny TVR]

new grabber at3's fitted

[Hard-Drive]

300bhp/ton said:

STT’s are pretty tame as a mud tyre. Probably not too bad on sandy gravely Terrain. But get on some really sloppy clay or chalk mud and you’ll want something a bit more aggressive.

The flip side the STT’s ride nice on the road and actually work pretty well in the snow too.

Yeah, I appreciate you can get much more aggressive than that, but being honest my truck does 99% of it's miles on road. What I wanted was something that I can live with on the road in terms of noise and grip, but would not be a glaring weak link on the rough stuff which I want to do (non-damaging green lanes, occasional pay and play, and snow). I'm very pleased with them, they have been excellent so far, and that's running at normal road pressures too.

[Greenmac]

[mygoldfishbowl]

Another rotten bit. I knew they were going but didn't think they'd got quite as bad, the other side was still clinging on by the skin of its teeth but I obviously replaced it anyway.



I couldn't find pre made replacements on line & haven't got the equipment for trying to bend stuff that thick so cut & shaped three pieces of appropriate thickness & welded them together.

Here's one side assembled & tacked.



And here is the same side welded, under sealed & re assembled. You wouldn't know the difference if you didn't look. And for the life of me I can not get this picture to load the CORRECT bloody way up.



Edit, Got it the correct way up. I had to download the picture I uploaded then rotate it, save it & upload it again. What a palava.

Edited by mygoldfishbowl on Sunday 10th December 11:30

[rejn]

I’m loving this - our new car and my first “proper” Land Rover. I had a freelander years ago and a FFRR more recently and drove a few thousand miles in an old series 3 and early 110 years ago but this is my first defender. Loving finding some off road bits near where we live to get this mucky! It’s performing perfectly so far!

Well apart from leaking water through the top of the drivers roof somehow...

The kids love it but mrs rejn is not yet convinced. It’s a bit too agricultural for her!!

[CAPP0]

rejn said:

mrs rejn is not yet convinced. It’s a bit too agricultural for her!!

Just get her driving it regularly and she'll soon come round! MrsC used to hate mine but once I barred the dogs from the FFRR in winter she had to start using it and now drives it daily. This week a neighbour said that his son in law was around and was eyeing it up and asking whether the neighbour thought I'd sell it. MrsC - "no way, we're never selling that"! She does quite like the idea of me replacing the 4-speed lorry box with an auto though (it's a V8).

[LewG]

Some cracking photos on here recently.
A couple of the Series from recent adventures.

My first time at Devil's Pit on a set of borrowed Michelin XZLs. Truck was absolutely superb all day, we only got stuck once and that was mainly down to my poor judgement!



Usually I drive round on pretty standard old fashioned road tyres but as I enjoyed myself so much bought some ex military Goodyear G90s on rims locally for the odd occasion where I fancy a play.
Better half on the job



Just to add, Merry Christmas to you all

Edited by LewG on Sunday 24th December 23:02

[tight fart]

Took the old girl out yesterday

[KAL]

So much salt

[mygoldfishbowl]

tight fart said:

Took the old girl out yesterday

I love a canvas top & had one on mine for tenish odd years, looked great, then about three years ago I changed to a cab roof & in all honestly I wouldn't go back. So much nicer in the cold & so much easier to load the back up with stuff. Downside is of course the summer with the cab roof being a pain to remove.

[Muddle238]

mygoldfishbowl said:

tight fart said:

Took the old girl out yesterday

I love a canvas top & had one on mine for tenish odd years, looked great, then about three years ago I changed to a cab roof & in all honestly I wouldn't go back. So much nicer in the cold & so much easier to load the back up with stuff. Downside is of course the summer with the cab roof being a pain to remove.

I'm planning to put a canvas top on my 1962 SIIa 109, as seen further up the page above. Really need a cover for tub, to stop things getting quite so wet.

[100SRV]

Nice to see some leaf-sprung Land-Rovers on here, especially the less-loved 109" trucks. This is my Dad's 1958 88" Series One which he uses to maintain a pheasant shoot on a wooded hillside so it works off-road every week.

The previous owner fitted a 2286 petrol engine, this was woefully underpowered (being a 7:1 CR export version) so I fitted an ACR ported and skimmed cylinder head with the SU carburettor/manifiold and lumention ignition. Now it has plenty of power and overtaking is possible rather than a dream.

The back axle has a quaife ATB which had been sitting unused under my bench, my dad can be a bit "heavy footed" at times and the 'Rover axles are prone to failure so this is really insurance against damage from unintended wheelspin.

Suspension is by parabolic springs and the dampers are inadequate pro-comp parts which I am open to suggestions for replacements.

Edited by 100SRV on Wednesday 3rd January 09:12