Hensey’s rebuild

henseyseries3 said:

just going to see how it all goes the deal for the parabolics fell through but ill get some so time in the future I'm not sure how long the n/a derv will last anyway been looking at verious other engine alternatives and yeah should hopefully be on the road sometime in the next few months not going to be doing much two weeks becuase I've got to get this Italian back on the road for a show then it'll sure be full steam ahead with the series

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been doing a bit of modding with the car eh.
should call you the 'mod man', but theres nothing wrong with modding though, i see in america people are putting detroit and cummins engines in their 4x4's.
it would be strange having a two stroke diesel in a landrover, now that would turn heads, i have truck mirrors and clearance lights on my landrover, and at night people will move off the road a bit thinking im a big truck, there was this one time i was driving down the highway at 45mph and a truck coming out of a side road saw me coming down the road and quickly pulled up thinking i was large and would not be able to slow in time, and when i went past he would have thought he was silly, waiting for me to go past as he would be going quicker. cops never bug me at night thinking im a truck and they dont want to hold me up as they think its bad so thats good in a way.

its almost 11am over there its 9pm here, its our first day of winter here, but our days get as low as 20c here no where as cold as it would be there in winter, i still wear summer clothes here as it doesnt get cold enough, it would be your first day of summer there.

kommer2013 said:

been doing a bit of modding with the car eh.
should call you the 'mod man', but theres nothing wrong with modding though, i see in america people are putting detroit and cummins engines in their 4x4's.
it would be strange having a two stroke diesel in a landrover, now that would turn heads, i have truck mirrors and clearance lights on my landrover, and at night people will move off the road a bit thinking im a big truck, there was this one time i was driving down the highway at 45mph and a truck coming out of a side road saw me coming down the road and quickly pulled up thinking i was large and would not be able to slow in time, and when i went past he would have thought he was silly, waiting for me to go past as he would be going quicker. cops never bug me at night thinking im a truck and they dont want to hold me up as they think its bad so thats good in a way.

its almost 11am over there its 9pm here, its our first day of winter here, but our days get as low as 20c here no where as cold as it would be there in winter, i still wear summer clothes here as it doesnt get cold enough, it would be your first day of summer there.

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Yeah definitely can't keep anything standard if it's broke I'll upgrade it ect ect it's mean to be summer over here but it's raining and 14 degrees

Detroit diesels are awesome! Swapped a set on the Douglas lifeboat in March, v8s! The noise was immense haha

Glad to see youre still going with the landy

Well went landrover show today and was basically looking for a spare or a 16x10 landrover rim becuase one 35 is a 16 and not a 15 like the rest so I've only got 3 35s on atm but I did find a michelin 8.25r16 will do as a spare so the series has a space saver lmfao oh and may have got myself a 10spline detroit locker and some defender axles the and here's some other pictures I took at the show of other series with defender axles

So my 16x10 steel modular come from flat do so got all the tyre on so she's on 4 35s and spare back on the door

Going to have ago at sorting the leaf spring bush that I half finished a year or two ago sho she's actually dat on he leafs and not an axle stand holding the chassis up

Finally finished a job I started 2 years ago

henseyseries3 said:

Finally finished a job I started 2 years ago View attachment 102027 View attachment 102028

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nice but i would have defo cut them trees down on the roof b4 the photo

cfwnotloB said:

nice but i would have defo cut them trees down on the roof b4 the photo

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Haha never noticed how the trees looked so close in pictures

Axles and locker are here time to get the grinder out

another step closer to getting her out there, bet your getting excited, wanting to drive it.

kommer2013 said:

another step closer to getting her out there, bet your getting excited, wanting to drive it.

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I'm not all that excited in all honesty but that's just becuase if I get excited I'm going to start rushing getting it built and stuffs going to wrong lmfao

So a good trip to billing landrover show got some arches had to find some way of getting these tyres and new axles to be some what legal lmfao

Well where to start it's been a while i don't 100% know what order everything goes in but ill let pictures do the talking

so here i started taking the original axles off
then started wire brushing and painting the chassis only ever did the rear for some reason
then while was under there i noticed the gearbox mounts had broken into two half so got some ordered and fitted
brought some spring perches for the 90/110 axles from yrm
and got set on getting the 90/110 rear axle on then never really done much else after that just placed the front axle over the front leafs and sat it on axle stands for a good year
until...... i had my other project car (yellow cinquecento parked next to it) have a complete internal electrical failure after i spent two solid years building it i decided enough was enough that got broke for spares i then brought a tidy mk1 punto sporting to "daily" and decided to put the money i made of breaking the cinq into the old girl, so spent the last couple of weeks getting the 12j back up and running pulling the front end back off and taking the front axle apart read for the coilsprung stuff to be cut off and the leaf stuff welded on


AND this ones going to make a few people happy i've decided to paint it nato green
not only that i'm trying to achieve something along the lines
so yeah i really wish i never sold my series screen and other items all that time ago

so been a little busy the weekend Saturday manged to get most of the coil sprung stuff cut and ground off the axle
loaded in the back of the punto hoping i didnt get any ep anywhere



then today collected my windscreen roof sides and rear door and got around to semi fitting things up as waiting for seals to come for the roof and windscreen





also manged to get some lift up handle early 90/110 doors

So the colour change has started!

also decided i'd replace everything with led units


bagged myself a 300tdi with a possible blown headgasket for £100 so aslong as the bottom halfs good i should be able to build a decent engine out of the spares my old mans got


i'm not sure if it was mentioned previously but the previous owner cut out the original bulkhead and made one further back, well i used that for the back of the king cab i've now moved it back to where it was and had a little play with bats to see if they would fit where i wanted them

now onto the front axle new raptor 4x4 steering bars turned up and took to setting it all up

as you can see from above i did intend on using my defender doors for abit but while i was at Peterborough lro show i manged to get myself a set of series doors so i got around to fitting them with new stainless bolts

got the front axle bolted up haven't welded the spring mounts on as want to triple check everything is where it should be but decided to put the front wheels on and push her off the drive and put her back in front of the garage

also decided to get the painted wing fitted up with its new lights

Just read this whole thread right through..awesome to see how its progressed!

its looking great

So i guess we're due for another update this one will start on a bad note but trust me it gets better

so after a few attempts to get the 300tdi running on the floor she was having non of it i then decided to whip the head off to find out its blown the gasket between 2-3 annnnd melted no4 piston probably and ideal candidate to rebuild but I've got no experience building rotating assemblies, and wouldn't feel comfortable putting it into service especially when the eventual plan is daily duties.









So while me and the old man figured out what to do engine wise, dad welded up my front axle and i got all bolted up back into place in time for a little bit of a flex test just to give us an idea if anything anything going to rub/bind up ect ect








so as some might have seen my dads had a pair of mach5s on his disco for some years now and he finally fancied a change, I've always wanted a set and defiantly wasn't going to pass them up they are in need of a colour change most likely black maybe white?




finally a plan with engines was formed in the shape of a disco 200tdi




also got a little vid of us getting it running on the floor


and in my usual style ill be using mostly what i have to hand for example had a little play with my front panel dads old 300tdi standard intercooler and my series rad




and the lad at work gave me his spare oil cooler off his rover 420 turbo

ill figure out oil cooler pipes when the fronts all back on

and then it was time to pull out the old and in with the new




still plenty more to do

Sweet mate, definitely go black on the rims....one of my mates got them on his disco and they suit landys so well....

That thing is mental!!

I'd drop in a V8, ya know its the only way