series3 lwb pickup onto 110 chassis

My dad keeps going on about putting his series 3 onto a 110.The 110 is a complete county and the series is complete. I keep telling him this is a masive task to do cos of outriggers, bulkhead, gearbox placement,etc oh and that extra inch .But he recons he's doing it.I know anything is possible BUT..
Has anyone given this ago? Is it a real waste of effort even thinking about it?

if its jus cus the chassis on the series is completly knacked i would just get a galvanized one or if he wants parabolics you buy a conversion kit all or most of the series 3 parts are avalable from somwere so i cant rearlly see the point in doing it

what 110 bits are you wanting to keep? i you just want the look of a series but the internals of a defender you could always just modify the front end and bulkhead to take the series parts, most folk wouldnt notice it was a defender in series clothing!

I've a series body on a 90 chassis, and apart from the defender style front end, which i am going to change back, the only difference externally really that I can see is that the rear tub sits forward on the rear x member and the rear axle sits further back. As the axles are wider anyway I've cut some metal out and fitted some plastic arches of a 90. The inside I would think would be a lot of work, thing like seat box, gearbox tunnel etc but mine was already done.
Hope this helps and if you want some pics let me know
Rick

fenby1976 said:

Aren't the SWB series rear tubs a bit shorter than 90 tubs?

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Dunno about the tubs, but SWB Series were 88" to 90's 90" wheelbase ... so tub likely to be different.

ermmm a 90" dont have a 90" think its 92.5" if i am wrong it cos its late

Dare i say it's because of the tax exempt thing.And please don't start ripping in to me about how wrong this is, i know. And any bloody fool can see that its not really a series. Ive tryed to tell him.But he would rather spend hundreds doing the conversion than pay £180 tax::argue:
I think it's too much work for the wrong reasons i'm certainly not putting weeks of my time into it.
Wanted some more ammo to show him how difficult this job will be.He thinks i'm just talking from my arse,rather than saving him from a part finished peice of s.crap

Are you saying the Defender is a compete CSW? If so i worth more than the series, why dont he sell it and buy a good 109 i thats what he wants?

Putting a 109 body onto a 110 won't make it a tax exempt 109. The body is the one part that doesn't count towards tax exempt status anyway. The identity of the vehicle stays with the chassis. I know you see nineties and one tens with much older plates stuck on but they are ringers and not legally entitled to the tax exempt status.