Parts compatibility

[GrumpyGel]

Hi all you RR lot. I normally hang out in the Freelander section - but have venture out!

I've spent 10 years with diesel & petrol D1s and the last 5 with a L Series diesel Freelander. I've fancied a Classic RR but never owned 1. Driven an old 1 my dad had.

This '94 Classic has come up for sale locally and I'm tempted...

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=931355508

It looks like its got rear diff issues and being a Freelander owner - that immediately makes me think VCU. Classics of this era don't come up to often here - but there's loads of cheap P38s and D1s and parts. If the VCU has gone, will a P38 transfer box fit a '94 Classic and are the diffs/axles fit/compatible between the Classic and/or P38 or D1?

 

[brianp38dse]

From my little knowlage the p38 has the props running under the passanger side the classic and discos drivers side, so axles vary, more likely disco parts would fit , but some one with a lot more experience will know more.

 

[Grrrrrr]

I'd be more worried about rot than the diff but I guess it depends how good you are at welding.

 

[ukadamwest]

Welcome to the Range Rover section. This being the Range Rover section, one normally has one's butler undertake the posting.

The rumble in the rear could be a run out wheel bearing or the diff worn out. Neither are hard to rectify, neither is the VCU for that matter.

As mentioned check for rot in the sills

 

[GrumpyGel]

I'm repyling on behalf of my employer, he wishes me to pass on his thanks for the replies and discuss the parts availability problems here in New Zealand. Parts are usually hugely expensive over here and what might be readily available in the UK stands a good chance of not being available here. So for example wheel bearings are not a great problem because if they're not available, they can be shipped from the UK inexpensively, just takes a week or 2. Something like a diff though is completely different - far to heavy to ship here at a reasonable price. I don't know if the parts are available here - but as an example, I'm sure there are many more Freelander VCUs driving the roads here and in need of replacement - but you can not buy them here. I have managed to find an engineering shop in the North Island that will recondition them, but whether they know what they are doing or not is another matter!

Hence, the boss, was rather hoping that if its 'big bits' that's gone wrong they could be taken off a P38 or D1 of which there are a lot more around than late Classics. Comments about rust noted. Landies obviously do still rust over here, but nowhere near as fast as in the UK. One reason being there's no salt put on the roads.

 

[jamesmartin]

p38 parts arent compatible with a rrc except the vcu,d1 bits are though as disco was built on rrc chassis and running gear,they use different transfer boxes,but either can be fitted,

 

[norseman]

Surely the reconditioning of a basic (Rover) diff should be within the capability of any competent engineering shop.
As said, the condition of the shell is the main consideration.
nb: Posted by myself as I had to let my 'man' go recently - without a reference either, but I won't elaborate!

 

[GrumpyGel]

I didn't get it in the end. It went for what I'd consider a "dirt cheap" price of about £900 - but would have cost a reasonable amount more to get it down here. I'd love to have bid at that price, but the timing on spending any money on "another" Land Rover was perfectly wrong - the wife would have gone ballistic. I think I'd better sort the 109 out first.

Thanks for the advice, it will hopefully come in useful when the timing is a bit better !

 

[GrumpyGel]

Surely the reconditioning of a basic (Rover) diff should be within the capability of any competent engineering shop.
As said, the condition of the shell is the main consideration.
nb: Posted by myself as I had to let my 'man' go recently - without a reference either, but I won't elaborate!

That's true, and I've been through the process with having to recondition the IRD on my Freelander. With that I got all the parts sent over from the UK, removed, split and reinstalled the unit but got a workshop push/pull the bearings. Its an expensive process, made doubly expensive over here. Classics are not that common over here so I'm thinking its going to be just as difficult getting parts as for the Freelnder, but D1s are "2 a penny" and bits are cheap.

 

[ukadamwest]

Classics are not that common over here so I'm thinking its going to be just as difficult getting parts as for the Freelnder, but D1s are "2 a penny" and bits are cheap.

RR Classics and Disco 1's have a degree of common parts

 

[Grrrrrr]

I didn't get it in the end. It went for what I'd consider a "dirt cheap" price of about £900 - but would have cost a reasonable amount more to get it down here. I'd love to have bid at that price, but the timing on spending any money on "another" Land Rover was perfectly wrong - the wife would have gone ballistic. I think I'd better sort the 109 out first.

Thanks for the advice, it will hopefully come in useful when the timing is a bit better !

You mean when the wife isn't watching?!

 

[GrumpyGel]

You mean when the wife isn't watching?!

Are you casting aspurtions that I would be so devious towards my most loved and dearest?






Just seen a L Series Freelander come up in a damaged car auction in a few days - I want it - why do Landie enthusiasts have this desire to accumulate broken cars!

So, advice required changes from RR Classics to how to deviously purchase *another* Landie and somehow not let the Mrs notice it or the reduced bank balance? Auction's on 2nd Sept - you have a few days to contemplate it