lpg Series 2

I've always wanted a Landy (well, you do when you grow up in the country, don't you?) and I'm wondering if it might now finally be something that's practical as well as desirable.

As an archaeologist I do occasionally have to go a little way off road and carry a lot of gear and soil samples or other samples, so it suits that purpose. If all goes to plan then I'll be spending a lot of time in the next three years abroad, so a car that has no road tax would be a big plus. The main issue though, is fuel consumption, for those of you that don't know, archaeologists have no more money than students, so it's the deciding factor (the fact that I could do my own maintenance on an old Landy is also a plus!).

So, can anyone give me a rough guide of mpg figures for a series 2 and also for figures after mpg conversion?

Many thanks.

Hi there, can't help you on the mpg figures but as an archaeologist, you are more than qualified to dust your way round an old relic of a decaying landrover! Landrovers also are very good at collecting their own soil samples and you will have great fun digging round underneath it trying to find and identify vital components. Hope you get one and enjoy it for many years.

Think for a petrol 2.25l swb you can get around the 20mpg mark. I think but know very little about it that you get slightly less mpg when running on lpg.
I'm sure you'll get a better answer from others on here.

A modern LPG system would give you just about the same MPG as petrol, but the savings are made by LPG being less than half the price of petrol.

Tinribs said:

Think for a petrol 2.25l swb you can get around the 20mpg mark. I think but know very little about it that you get slightly less mpg when running on lpg.
I'm sure you'll get a better answer from others on here.

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I'd reckon on 15-18mpg, then if you are lucky enough to get 20 it will be a bonus.

The best economy device on a Land Rover (or almost any car) is a gentle right foot! (assuming everything is properly in tune)

Davec said:

I'd reckon on 15-18mpg, then if you are lucky enough to get 20 it will be a bonus.

The best economy device on a Land Rover (or almost any car) is a gentle right foot! (assuming everything is properly in tune)

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Aye, that would be more like it. Never worked mine out cause I've only just fixed the odometer. Don't think I'd want to scare myself either!

Aye in the mid teens.
You can stretch that a bit by a light right foot, rolling down hills and leaning out the mixture but not too much.
The best way to save fuel i have found is to slipstream lorries on motorways but its not for the faint hearted and it ****es the lorries off.

clivees said:

ts not for the faint hearted and it ****es the lorries off.

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bet the drivers arent very happy either

i slipped streamed my automatic mini clubman estate up the m6, m74.
the fooking gearbox inards fell out first time i stopped. once removed the inside looked like someone had taken a hammer to it

I filled my series 2a up with lpg this evening and its doing exactly 15 to the gallon!!!

wells01 said:

I filled my series 2a up with lpg this evening and its doing exactly 15 to the gallon!!!

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who's LPG kit have you got?
is it reliable?
drawbacks?

am thinking of converting one of me series this summer

Hi
I bought the bits off ebay. Total cost was about £70. It was the simplest conversion ive ever done. I have a mixer and a toroidal tank in my garage if you are interested. If you want some photos of the installation email me at [email protected].
Regards

wells01 said:

Hi
I bought the bits off ebay. Total cost was about £70. It was the simplest conversion ive ever done. I have a mixer and a toroidal tank in my garage if you are interested. If you want some photos of the installation email me at [email protected].
Regards

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is it reliable - and did yer insurance company cough when you said you'd fitted it yourself ?

surely if economy is the relevant factor you'd be better off with a diesel. Mine does loads to the gallon....add the cost of veg oil into the equation (see oi pikey and any other veg users thread) and its going to be really quite economical on the pocket....for a land rover. And with it being simpler shoudl be easier to fix (I'm prepared to be wrong on the last bit, but recent experience leads me to think that)

Get a diesel engine and run it on a mix of veg oil is the cheapest way. Have a look at VOW2.co.uk Will give you an idea. Just about to do it myself.

landynutter said:

Get a diesel engine and run it on a mix of veg oil is the cheapest way. Have a look at VOW2.co.uk Will give you an idea. Just about to do it myself.

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don't use any heater that uses glowplugs, they dont last at all long, they heat the oil very ineffectivly and they draw a large current

instead use the latent heat with the engines coolant via a small heat exchanger - and/or get a combined fuel heater/filter - ideally get one that has a 12v heater inbuilt so you can give it a burst of heat untill the coolant is upto temp

Tinribs said:

Don't think I'd want to scare myself either!

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No doubt you would mate