Goodbye 90, hello 110 project

lucifus said:

Here's a quick photo of the new engine fitted. Quality isn't great as I uploaded it from my phone but you get the idea.

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quick question.

Is this a disco 200tdi?

After a year of owning i thing 2014 will be the year i rip the 2.5na out. Local stuff is fine but further than that is a fecking mission.

Yeah it's a disco 200tdi

awesome thread well worth the read! you have inspired me to pull my finger out and get back to work on my 90!

Today's update -

The steering guard arrived from Paddocks today and I'm pretty impressed. It's a beast! It didnt take too long to fit and was fairly straight fwd. I found a pretty cool video on youtube that summed it up very well. Link here - Youtube Link

Took me about 40 mins to fit. I had to use a round file on on of the mounting holes as the galvanization had closed it up ever so slightly.

Anyway here's some before and after photos -




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Ive also washed my old wheels/tyres/spacers ready to stick online for sale. Ill post something up in the classifieds shortly.

lucifus said:

Today's update -

The steering guard arrived from Paddocks today and I'm pretty impressed. It's a beast! It didnt take too long to fit and was fairly straight fwd. I found a pretty cool video on youtube that summed it up very well. Link here - Youtube Link

Took me about 40 mins to fit. I had to use a round file on on of the mounting holes as the galvanization had closed it up ever so slightly.

Anyway here's some before and after photos -

Before -

After -

Ive also washed my old wheels/tyres/spacers ready to stick online for sale. Ill post something up in the classifieds shortly.

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awesome! I live not too far from paddocks and all my off roading bits are from their! Whats the postage costs like from paddocks?

How did it for in with the jate rings or did you ditch them or not have them in your ex-mil?

@Robbie - The postage is very reasonable. I think it cost me about £7 postage that was express delivery with full tracking (even track the driver of the delviery van via GPS which is cool). Its pretty heavy.

@flat - I've removed the jate rings from the front. I opted for the steering guard with integrated recovery eyes (you can see on the photo) so the jate rings aren't needed on the front anyway.

Update for today - I managed to get 3 of the arches fitted before the thunder, lightening and biblical hail started out of the blue. I had to pause and let the hail stop before finishing the 4th as it was starting to hurt. Like being shot with a bb gun. The arches are ok. The fit was ok considering that no land rover bodywork is exactly the same even when they leave the factory and my 110 bodywork had 18 years of army abuse before I got hold of it. It really is looking tired again! I'm not a huge fan of wider arches but needs must. I want to keep it legal. Next I need to cut the old front arches up and clip half of them back in to cover the area where water can now get into the engine bay. Anyway heres some pictures -

I agree when you say not a fan of wide arches, but those look in proportion to the tyres. Hard as nails! Lookin good!

Looks mean! keep it up!

Looking good mate. Are you still enjoying the canvas?

Looks the absolute dogs bollocks

I think it looks smarter with wider arches on, where did you get them from?

Arches are flat dog ones from flat dog themselves. Yeah I'm loving the canvas. It's really ok in all weather. I'm turning an old one I have into a bikini top for next summer.

lucifus said:

Arches are flat dog ones from flat dog themselves. Yeah I'm loving the canvas. It's really ok in all weather. I'm turning an old one I have into a bikini top for next summer.

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Ha snap me to!

How you planning on doing yours?

I am planning to just cut the front cab portion off and tuck the edges neatly, then rather than take straps to the rear of the tub I am going to see some straps at a slight angle that go down to the 2 staples on the rear of the bulkhead.

I am going to make a divider to be between the cab and the rear load area from the rear flap off the old canvas to. That's a bit mor involved sewing wise though as I need to work out how to take it round the ROPS bar and affix, quick measure up also indicates it's fractionally to short so will have to extend the bottom edge with some spare canvas.

Will have loads of spare canvas left for future repairs, or I may make a spare wheel cover but I can't decide if that will look gash or not…

I've not really thought too far ahead to how to do it really but I'm sure it will be something like you have just described. I'll take care of it in a couple of months when the weather starts to look better for the summer. Its a shame as the donor canvas is actually ok appart from a rip I put in the roof when I misjudged a car park height barrier. Doh! I'm actually contemplating spraying the whole a new colour in the summer so may go for a black canvas or hardtop if I can get my hands on one cheap.

Did a couple of jobs this weekend...

First was to replace the cheap bolts I used when I fitted the spacers on the rear. I only had some pretty crappy cheap bolts when I fitted them as I wasn't expecting to change them. Fitted some stainless ones.

I also cut up my original front wheel arches to re-used the inner part of them. The wide arches don't have inner sections so leave a big wide open gap straight into the upper wings/engine bay, bulkhead and the electrics/back of the head lights.

Next job is to pickup some direct to galvanised black paint and paint the front steering guard black. I'll do that next weekend if the weather is good enough.

lucifus said:

Did a couple of jobs this weekend...

First was to replace the cheap bolts I used when I fitted the spacers on the rear. I only had some pretty crappy cheap bolts when I fitted them as I wasn't expecting to change them. Fitted some stainless ones.

I also cut up my original front wheel arches to re-used the inner part of them. The wide arches don't have inner sections so leave a big wide open gap straight into the upper wings/engine bay, bulkhead and the electrics/back of the head lights.

Next job is to pickup some direct to galvanised black paint and paint the front steering guard black. I'll do that next weekend if the weather is good enough.

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Hope you are not talking about fitting wheel spacers with stainless ?

Most stainless are wrong grade , for high tensile application .

tacr2man said:

Hope you are not talking about fitting wheel spacers with stainless ?

Most stainless are wrong grade , for high tensile application .

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yeah seconded, stainless is not good for things like that.

No not wheel spacers. The 1" lift blocks under the rear springs. I'm not running wheel spacers any more.