Hensey’s rebuild

Blackburn said:

with having the door fitted to the rear you loose a lot of space in rear as you cannot store anything on floor so that door opens.
Have you seats in he rear of king cab section?

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No there's no seats there the doors just what come so its something I just used its will always be locked anyway as ts something I'll never use

Got he front back together today just to have a look at what it would look like complete and just too a few other pictures







For some reason I like picture in the dark











The king cab is not finshes yet a few thinks that has to be fixed on it and also the rear tailgate has to be sorted

I like the land rover badge that's on the back

I suppose you are going to tell the insurance company it's unmodified as well? Be careful if you change the engine and choose not to tell them.

darius said:

I suppose you are going to tell the insurance company it's unmodified as well? Be careful if you change the engine and choose not to tell them.

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Going to declare everything I've done to it i'd rather have it like that just in case I ever have a prang plus

Ugh, looks vile as a defender! Why ruin a series front end uke: I've got a 7L V8 in mine and kept the series front end!

Dr_evil said:

Ugh, looks vile as a defender! Why ruin a series front end uke: I've got a 7L V8 in mine and kept the series front end!

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it's definitely not my cup of tea either

to be honest i can't see the point of a king/crew cab on an 88" or 90, on a 109 or 110 they can look correctly proportioned and useful

an 88" to me comes in 4 configurations, full tilt, truck cab, full hard top or nothing up top at all

but it takes all sorts to make the world go round

NiteMare said:

it's definitely not my cup of tea either

to be honest i can't see the point of a king/crew cab on an 88" or 90, on a 109 or 110 they can look correctly proportioned and useful

an 88" to me comes in 4 configurations, full tilt, truck cab, full hard top or nothing up top at all

but it takes all sorts to make the world go round

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I don't mind a king cab, mine was going to be one for practicality but done the right way with the bulkhead moved back and using series parts. Gone truck cab now though and it looks right

Its not even got a series screen now though, full fender just looks like a bad ringer IMO

Dr_evil said:

Ugh, looks vile as a defender! Why ruin a series front end uke: I've got a 7L V8 in mine and kept the series front end!

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Its not on there properly and I like it person preference tbh everyone has there own way of doing things I know full well it will go through a few stages of mods in the future so it will probs go back to a normal series at so point when I get bored and I've only done it as all the stuff come cheap too

NiteMare said:

it's definitely not my cup of tea either

to be honest i can't see the point of a king/crew cab on an 88" or 90, on a 109 or 110 they can look correctly proportioned and useful

an 88" to me comes in 4 configurations, full tilt, truck cab, full hard top or nothing up top at all

but it takes all sorts to make the world go round

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That's fair enough mate

I know its not to everyone cup of tea but got a few things done finally got an engine then also got told I could have the 300tdi out of my dads disco once I've rebuilt the spare 300tdi that we have


Also got the cage that fits on my king cab its not a finished product as still need to make some rocksliders to finish the rest of the cage off

Then my dad said I could have the waffle boards and holder



And for all off two days I had my dads 10j mach 5s on with 33.12.50.15s on

You want some sliders ?

I've got some stupidly beefy ones sat here that are now surplus to requirements and taking up space

Dr_evil said:

You want some sliders ?

I've got some stupidly beefy ones sat here that are now surplus to requirements and taking up space

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I need to make some really due to having 90 tank in

Got some 1ton shackle in the post today might have a little look later into the pros and cons of fitting them on an 88

henseyseries3 said:

Got some 1ton shackle in the post today might have a little look later into the pros and cons of fitting them on an 88

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never occurred to me you could buy those new! even **itpart cant bollocks those up can they?
how much and where from?

onecelledcreature said:

never occurred to me you could buy those new! even **itpart cant bollocks those up can they?
how much and where from?

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Paddocks mate

£17.95 for the front
£14.95 for the rear all in all they come to £45.48 with vat and postage

henseyseries3 said:

Paddocks mate

£17.95 for the front
£14.95 for the rear all in all they come to £45.48 with vat and postage

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Free postage if you spend over £50

Freetime101 said:

Free postage if you spend over £50

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That's nice to know because I need to order some shocks and a few other bits

Brit part can bollocks up a leaf spring bolt.....wouldn't trust them with a spring shackle!

Dunsfold might have some genuine ones. Got my standard shackles from them for cheaper than B-part....but check the threads, as i had to make 2 trips to swap the BSF stuff they gave me by mistake!

Got the 1ton shackles on it was going well until I got to the front passenger side to find the shackle bolt in the chassis is stuck to the rubber so have to sort that out

But don't know if you can tell from the pictures if it looks an higher