Nice. ______________________________
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Well the Range Roveryness continues.......

I fixed the dodgy tailgate catch.... and the other side decided to play up

I then decided to tackle the brake light problem.. it's got light guards... what a ing stupid design they are removed the locking bolt no worries and swung open the guard to find that 1 of the screws is obscured by the side bracket.. got the screw out, and the bloody lens wont side out so I had to remove more rusty screws So having gone through all that messing around I have decided to fit LED's and have done with it  Yesterday I couldn't spell Engineer... Today I are one!
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Former long term L322 owner, Up/Down graded to a Classic Tractor!

Nice car.

ummm.... Nice is pushing it a bit far.... I think it has the potential to be nice, once I've ironed out some of the wrinkles...

New Polybushes are on their way, discovered that there is a small gap in the rear body mount / radius arm bushes (3mm)... think that's where the 4 wheel steering sensation is coming from.. what I'm having a hard time with, is how can they charge £15 more for a full set of bushes as opposed to just the 2 body/arm bushes... it doesn't make sense But suffice it to say that any iffy looking bush is going to get replaced

I think after I will be looking into increasing the amount of rubber blocks on the tyres.. At the moment it's got Kumho KH 71's... to say that they are aggressive is an understatement.. between 0 and 10 MPH you can feel each tread block as it hits the road and over 30 MPH you can't hear the engine... and it's a Diesel Plus I've had experience of those tyres before... they don't like the wet... and as I'm trying to cut down on clean under pant consumption they've got to go  Yesterday I couldn't spell Engineer... Today I are one!
Inventor of the 'Guide-o-Matic automatic wheel alignment tool'
Former long term L322 owner, Up/Down graded to a Classic Tractor!

You've got to love a range rover classic
Are you going to use it as an off-road toy or are you going to turn it back in to a road car?
I've got an LSE softdash i'm restoring that is currently waiting on the weather to warm up so she can be painted.
When I did the suspension a couple of years ago i went for blue poly bushes but i find them very soft for road use.

Well the main reason for getting it is to use it as a back up vehicle if my Mercedes dies when I'm working (Tow for a living), with the ultimate goal of performing an engine and gearbox swap.... was originally going to do a manual pumped 6 pot Merc 24 valve 250 bhp / 450 lbs-ft and a 6 speed box... but it is a squeeze to get it in... and I have just found out that you can do the same with the early 5 pot / 20 valve engines too, and get almost the same power... what could possibly go wrong

And assuming that behaves it's self next year, I'm planning on swapping roles with the Merc and use that as standby car, to be replaced with another 5/6 pot diesel RRC in 2019... but having said that I might be doing an RRC with a big petrol lump and LPG.... all rather hinges on what they do in London regarding LEZ.... But my aim is to be ECU free with 2 cars that will tow comfortably by 2020.... Also has the added bonus that they will both be Tacho exempt too  Yesterday I couldn't spell Engineer... Today I are one!
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Former long term L322 owner, Up/Down graded to a Classic Tractor!

Very cool, that's not a conversion i have seen before. Can you buy an appropriate bell housing adapter or are you going to have one machined?

Not many of those in oz. The VM was quite unpopular around here. Perhaps unfairly. Some converted them to 300TDI.

The VM engines has been in quite a few different vehicles.

It will be a good vehicle when restored. Ahead of its time at the time. ______________________________
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TerryG, there is a company in Sweden that makes a conversion kit to put an OM606 on to a Range Rover gearbox... but there is a bit of messing about with the oil filters etc... I was intending on buying the engine mounts from them and fitting the OM606 with a 6 speed manual mercedes gearbox, and then mating that to a range Rover transfer box... I found another company that makes an adapter to turn the LT230 transfer box into a stand alone remote box, and they have said that they should be able to produce an adapter that is compatible with the Merc box

But I'm now thinking of dropping an OM605 (5 pot) in as it's the same engine as the 606 only missing a cylinder.... so more room and less splinters from head scratching

And rar110 I must admit that I have been very surprised with the VM diesel engine so far, if I can up the power to around 160 bhp and 350 mn's torque then I might stick with it... But bearing in mind that it started off life as a marine diesel lump it might not like that one bit and I haven't found anyone who tunes them... there might be a reason there Where as the Mercedes lump is readily available in 275,400,600 bhp tunes  Yesterday I couldn't spell Engineer... Today I are one!
Inventor of the 'Guide-o-Matic automatic wheel alignment tool'
Former long term L322 owner, Up/Down graded to a Classic Tractor!

 Yesterday I couldn't spell Engineer... Today I are one!
Inventor of the 'Guide-o-Matic automatic wheel alignment tool'
Former long term L322 owner, Up/Down graded to a Classic Tractor!

Very very nice car Miggit ,

I Poly-bushed my classic, it totally transformed the handling, cornering was a lot less scary (not so much roly-poly). I had good old beam axles, so was able to change all the bushes just by chocking the road wheels in turn and crawling underneath, apart from having to use a angle grinder on the rear trailing arm bolts to axle casing, they were rusted solid.

Good Luck with the upgrades / repairs.

Peter

I'm hoping that it wont come to angle grinders at 20 paces because it has had cranked rear arms added recently, and I also think that's what has knocked the stuffing out of the bushes  Yesterday I couldn't spell Engineer... Today I are one!
Inventor of the 'Guide-o-Matic automatic wheel alignment tool'
Former long term L322 owner, Up/Down graded to a Classic Tractor!

Always found polybushes useless if it's modified, fine in a standard road going car, with the forces the lift put on them they last weeks... always used standard genuine ones and they last ages...

Of course you will need a decent press to get genuine in but polybush are easy to fit....  Pete

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Well it's got cranked arms on the rear so the bush angle isn't too bad, and I'm not planning on throwing it down a ravine or into a bottomless pit, so hopefully they will last a while.....

and I beg to differ with you about fitting the bushes.... they are the ones held in with 3 bolts!  Yesterday I couldn't spell Engineer... Today I are one!
Inventor of the 'Guide-o-Matic automatic wheel alignment tool'
Former long term L322 owner, Up/Down graded to a Classic Tractor!

Talking about VM diesels..

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