Much more chilled today...

This new water seperator has increased acceleration and pick up of the
engine no end. (On the Rangie). The slop that can out of the old seperator
was disgusting. I couldn't drain it though due to the drain plug having
snapped and the unions being siezed solid. That fire was destiny doing me a
favour perhaphs..

Of course it could be the reduction in weight from not carrying around 1/4
tonne of oxide on the near side. Only other thing I can think is the new
hoses on the fuel line. At the Mo its 8 mm rubber from front to rear.
However I'm told that makes me a <Life of Brians - Mothers voice> very very
naughty boy </Life of Brians - Mothers voice> and I must fit plastic. I've
got the plastic on the bench ready, seems odd.. is it purely an issue of
longevity of the rubber?

I also got the brakes sorted today having adjusted the pushrod ( I had
fitted a new servo as the old one was looking well dodgie). Just managed to
get the master cylinder away enough without having to undo all the brake
pipes..phew!! Brakes are now better than ever before

I'm alot more chilled today about this whole Landrover thing.

Off to Wrexham on Friday (fingers crossed!) to get some Carbs from a Jag
breakers yard for Percy. And a manual choke conversion for them .. get rid
of the 'orrid never works AED that cost something like £147 puls vare and
tare to replace. "It's a Jag thang".

Then it's Percy MOT time....... h'mmmm

Wonder if I'll ever get to Paint Morph this year.

Lee D

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"Lee_D" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> This new water seperator has increased acceleration and pick up of the engine no end. (On the Rangie).
> The slop that can out of the old seperator was disgusting. I couldn't drain it though due to the drain
> plug having snapped and the unions being siezed solid. That fire was destiny doing me a favour
> perhaphs..
>
> Of course it could be the reduction in weight from not carrying around 1/4 tonne of oxide on the near
> side. Only other thing I can think is the new hoses on the fuel line. At the Mo its 8 mm rubber from
> front to rear. However I'm told that makes me a <Life of Brians - Mothers voice> very very naughty boy
> </Life of Brians - Mothers voice> and I must fit plastic. I've got the plastic on the bench ready,
> seems odd.. is it purely an issue of longevity of the rubber?
>
> I also got the brakes sorted today having adjusted the pushrod ( I had fitted a new servo as the old
> one was looking well dodgie). Just managed to get the master cylinder away enough without having to
> undo all the brake pipes..phew!! Brakes are now better than ever before
>
> I'm alot more chilled today about this whole Landrover thing.
>
> Off to Wrexham on Friday (fingers crossed!) to get some Carbs from a Jag breakers yard for Percy. And a
> manual choke conversion for them .. get rid of the 'orrid never works AED that cost something like
> £147 puls vare and tare to replace. "It's a Jag thang".
>
> Then it's Percy MOT time....... h'mmmm
>
> Wonder if I'll ever get to Paint Morph this year.

Do you mind me asking how much this is costing matey?

Could I fit a Jag 4.2 to Monty?

Nige

"Nige" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

> Do you mind me asking how much this is costing matey?

Percy?

Lord knows... £340 or so for the Transfer box to bw65 auto box
Stage 1 axles and servo £100
Jag engine, Auto box, radiator, etc etc £50
Hours of tinkering
hundreds on saudries.
Custom made exhaust - 7 Modified volvo tailpipes and a Big Merc van
silencer.

If I can get a 4.2 in a IIa which both Landrover specialists and Jag
enthusiasts one of who owned a IIa said was impossible then putting one in a
Rangie should be a piece of cake by comparision. Even Ashcrofts said it
wouldn't fit in. They intended the conversion for the same autobox mated to
a v8.

Of course the engine swap soon turned into a complete refurb including door
pillars footwells and outriggers. Complete new brake lines, fuel lines and
replacement of virtually every other nut and bolt.

Three months should see it done easy. Oh but then theres the other things
life throws at you so make that 2 years.

Full story here....

http://www.lrproject.com/percy/index.html

Would I do it again... would I hell! (Ask me in a fortnight!)

Lee D

> > Do you mind me asking how much this is costing matey?
>
> Percy?
>
> Lord knows... £340 or so for the Transfer box to bw65 auto box
> Stage 1 axles and servo £100
> Jag engine, Auto box, radiator, etc etc £50
> Hours of tinkering
> hundreds on saudries.
> Custom made exhaust - 7 Modified volvo tailpipes and a Big Merc van
> silencer.
>
> If I can get a 4.2 in a IIa which both Landrover specialists and Jag
> enthusiasts one of who owned a IIa said was impossible then putting one in
a
> Rangie should be a piece of cake by comparision. Even Ashcrofts said it
> wouldn't fit in. They intended the conversion for the same autobox mated
to
> a v8.
>
> Of course the engine swap soon turned into a complete refurb including
door
> pillars footwells and outriggers. Complete new brake lines, fuel lines and
> replacement of virtually every other nut and bolt.
>
> Three months should see it done easy. Oh but then theres the other things
> life throws at you so make that 2 years.
>
> Full story here....
>
> http://www.lrproject.com/percy/index.html
>
> Would I do it again... would I hell! (Ask me in a fortnight!)
>
> Lee D

I feel a whole lot better knowing I'm no longer beeing beeing cursed for the
idea ;-)

But... err... how about this -
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=2492808122&ssPageN
ame=STRK:MEWA:IT

I'm geting out of hear! heheheh Toby

On or around Tue, 5 Oct 2004 23:27:42 +0100, "TVS"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>I feel a whole lot better knowing I'm no longer beeing beeing cursed for the
>idea ;-)
>
>But... err... how about this -
>http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=2492808122&ssPageN
>ame=STRK:MEWA:IT
>
>I'm geting out of hear! heheheh Toby
>

bloody hell, I'd not have thought it could be done.

however, it does have a 90 front end - you'd never do it with a series front
end. One tends to hope that it's got a 90 front axle with disc brakes as
well... if it's still on series II drums, then it's hardly what you'd call
safe.

I'd not be sure that the SIII transmission is up to the job, either...
Actually, I wonder how much 1967 there is there...

"TVS" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

> I feel a whole lot better knowing I'm no longer beeing beeing cursed for
> the
> idea ;-)
>
> But... err... how about this -
> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=2492808122&ssPageN
> ame=STRK:MEWA:IT
>
> I'm geting out of hear! heheheh Toby

Will be interesting to see what it fetches.. No where near £4000 but just
give me an idea what Percy may be likely to fetch if I were to paint him
purple and bung in nice seats with OTT straps and steering wheel... not that
I'm a fashion critic you understand.

I'm intreagued as to what the Leafspring / coil spring hybrid malarky means
in real terms.

But NO! I won't be spending 5 years building another... not a IIa anyway.

You got that toy to work yet?



Lee D