show us your land rover

[Bill]

Bugger!

[The Wookie]

A.J.M said:

stuff

So annoying that, I had someone do a similar job of cocking up several aspects of my 90 in one visit for a relatively big job

Took me years to get it back to a point where it didn’t piss me off every time I drove it up the road because it felt wrong

[A.J.M]

Yup. Incredibly frustrating.

A mate runs a regular garage with another landy specialist I’ve used in the past close by his unit.

Going to see if he’s up for sorting it slowly over the next few months as he’s just got bigger storage to keep cars.

Used tank, cleaned out.
New parking shoes.
Callipers rebuilt.
Injector sorted.
Sort the harness out.
May need to change fuel lines.
Change the brake servo and master cylinder.
Sills can be bought for £149 a side, it’s how bad the inners could be and the arch lip will likely need cut out and changed.

Still leaves the crossover pipe which may need the specialist to do.
16 years and 203,924 miles does take its toll.

But... it would be nice to have it back. Can enjoy a semi retirement as tow car and long distance trips as the roof rack is still hanging up in the folks garage.

[A.J.M]

Not all is lost on my landy fleet though.

Monty the 80” has got the bulkhead welding sorted, and the chassis rubbed down, primer applied and Tuscan Blue paint applied.

Gearbox is coming out to be sent away to be rebuilt but it’s getting there slowly.
All panels etc from tub forward have been test fitted.
Tub needs new sides and a floor.
Then seat box needs rebuilt.

[Merc 450]

A.J.M said:

Not all is lost on my landy fleet though.

Monty the 80” has got the bulkhead welding sorted, and the chassis rubbed down, primer applied and Tuscan Blue paint applied.

Gearbox is coming out to be sent away to be rebuilt but it’s getting there slowly.
All panels etc from tub forward have been test fitted.
Tub needs new sides and a floor.
Then seat box needs rebuilt.

Very nice, looks a lot like the short wheel base ones we had in the RAF. They had their headlights in the front grill and a petrol tank under each seat we used to dip our zippo's in them

[mmcd87]

This is mine, 2006 4.4L V8 petrol.

[eltax91]

Progress is going well on my 90 project

[TiminYorkshire]

^ The above makes it look super simple, although I'm guessing the two post lift helps this illusion.

[eltax91]

TiminYorkshire said:

^ The above makes it look super simple, although I'm guessing the two post lift helps this illusion.

Oh it was dead easy.

Got the car mid January ish. In total to this point probably spent around 20 hours on it. Lots of fighting with rusty bolts and eventually giving up and getting the death wheel out.

Then I got a knowledgeable mate in last week for a day to help out and we did the final bits to lift the body. The lift certainly aids massively, however, this is still very doable without one.

[Cold]

New car time.

Picked this up the other day. A 2014 L494 Supercharged Autobiography Dynamic with just 38k miles on it to replace my aging L320. A 500+ bhp V8 in an aluminium body =

It's lovely and such a step on from the earlier RRS. Looking forward to piling the miles on over the coming years.
(Barossa black, btw)

[eltax91]

Decided 90” wasn’t short enough.





Bit crusty in there

[tracer.smart]

Here’s mine. First and probably only one. 1976 LWT FFR, ex-Royal Artillery:

Edited by tracer.smart on Saturday 10th April 18:54

[Red9zero]

Very nice ! Love Lightweights.

[take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey]

tracer.smart said:

Here’s mine. First and probably only one. 1976 LWT FFR, ex-Royal Artillery:

Edited by tracer.smart on Saturday 10th April 18:54

I had one of those. Mine was a hard-top.

Great motorway cruiser... 50mph flat out with ear plugs

[Ranger 6]

tracer.smart said:

Here’s mine. First and probably only one. 1976 LWT FFR, ex-Royal Artillery:

Excellent - many happy memories of those as 'company cars' and ye, I am ex-artillery.

After seeing Melanie Simmonite in hers, in the NORC championship many moons ago, I always wanted one with coils, cage and V8.

[tracer.smart]

Thanks Red, it was an itch I’d wanted to scratch for a longtime. Dewey, 50mph takes bravery, 45 feels dangerous. No motorways for this one, great for the pub runs and memorable days out. No tax or mot requirements are a bonus.

[tracer.smart]

Ranger 6 said:

Excellent - many happy memories of those as 'company cars' and ye, I am ex-artillery.

After seeing Melanie Simmonite in hers, in the NORC championship many moons ago, I always wanted one with coils, cage and V8.

In that case maybe this is one of your old company cars Ranger?!

A good, dedicated, source on the LWT with plenty of pics of them in service including some surprising roles, is this if anyone feels like a decent read: The Half-Ton Military Land Rover, Mark Cook.

[warch]

I was only planning to do a bit of preparatory cleaning prior to sorting some chassis rust but then this happened...

Bear in mind the last time the chassis on this saw the light of day the Beatles were in the process of breaking America and Cassius Clay hadn’t changed his name yet.

[DJPetrolHead]

[Merc 450]

tracer.smart said:

Here’s mine. First and probably only one. 1976 LWT FFR, ex-Royal Artillery:

Edited by tracer.smart on Saturday 10th April 18:54

I weekly checked 30 of these 88-92 in the RAF fuel tanks under the seats always stunk of petrol, handy for filling a zippo up though just dip it in the tank.
Looks like a good example very tidy.
We had a few black and white ones which I had to put studded tyres on 2nd january every year for their trip to Norway