transporting trailoring my defender

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Given the level of difficulty involved here I'd just book it to be moved by a vehicle transport company on a flat bed truck on the day of the assessment. Last time I needed a vehicle shifted in this way it cost me £50 for a shortish journey, and £170 (as I remember) for a longer trip of around 70 miles. So it could work out better value than the rigmarole of hiring a trailer and then a vehicle rated suitable to tow it.
 
or.....






just tow it anyway with the crummy hilux.....

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Brown said:
Given the level of difficulty involved here I'd just book it to be moved by a vehicle transport company on a flat bed truck on the day of the assessment. Last time I needed a vehicle shifted in this way it cost me £50 for a shortish journey, and £170 (as I remember) for a longer trip of around 70 miles. So it could work out better value than the rigmarole of hiring a trailer and then a vehicle rated suitable to tow it.
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i think your right, this has been bugging me more than the bloody test
 
nigel cartwright said:
i think your right, this has been bugging me more than the bloody test
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Compared to what one spends restoring a Land Rover it's pocket money. There's no point shelling out for a 3.5 ton trailer if you're not going to use it that often. Turboman's a farmer so needs trailers all the time, but for many of us it's just a once-in-a-while experience.
 
Brown said:
Compared to what one spends restoring a Land Rover it's pocket money. There's no point shelling out for a 3.5 ton trailer if you're not going to use it that often. Turboman's a farmer so needs trailers all the time, but for many of us it's just a once-in-a-while experience.
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seems ive got an issue even if i buy a trailer so that avenue has gone .. would have been happy to have a transporter trailer around the place, with my step sons car breaking down it would be handy lol. I'll start searching for someone local with a truck i can throw it on ..
 
If you were to tow a 101 Forward Control on a trailer it would look like a really huge vehicle being towed by a tiny one, so would tend to catch the eye of bored traffic police or people watching the traffic cam monitors. Last time I was on the M6 I saw someone towing a tractor on a trailer with a Toyota pickup. He was being escorted off the road by traffic police with lots of lights flashing. Not worth the hassle, penalty or points!
 
Nobody sane would attempt to build a 'normal' control using the chassis from a 101 as a base, at least not someone drug and alcohol free!
 
Just to clear it up, there is absolutely no problem towing a Land Rover 90/110 with another Land Rover 90/110.

A 110 weighs around 1,900kg and a 90 about 1,700kg (kerb weights). So any trailer plated to carry that weight will be absolutely fine. Plus a vehicle that is plated to tow it, and a driver licensed to do so also.

A transporter will be less hassle if you don't have a capable tow vehicle or don't know anyone with one, however if you do then hiring a trailer is cheap and easy - so long as the requirements above are met. Any decent sized trailer will carry most Land Rovers. I have an older Ifor Williams flatbed that's plated at 2,600kg gross with an unladen weight of about 600kg - so I can put about 2 tonnes on it meaning I could move a 90 no problem, a 110 would require careful measuring as it would be closer to the limit and a 3,500kg plated trailer would likely be better suited, however mine would technically do it.
 
Now that's an interesting machine. Have you got any pictures of the underneath, engine bay, interior etc? I'm not looking to criticise (unlike some people!), I'm curious as to how they've fitted it all together. No wonder it needs an inspection. It's just that usually when people say 101 they're talking about the V8 forward control. We used to have a Series forward control in the 1980s so I have a bit of a soft spot for them.
 
Brown said:
Now that's an interesting machine. Have you got any pictures of the underneath, engine bay, interior etc? I'm not looking to criticise (unlike some people!), I'm curious as to how they've fitted it all together. No wonder it needs an inspection. It's just that usually when people say 101 they're talking about the V8 forward control. We used to have a Series forward control in the 1980s so I have a bit of a soft spot for them.
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Not having knowledge of what a 110 chassis looks like i cant see the join , i have no idea why anyone would cut it down to a 101 either.. whats the point? but saying that the owners club guy wasn't over shocked, i think he may have known one of the previous owners.. the pic is the only one i have to hand, its changed a bit since then, rewiring and tidying it up is an ongoing job.. we bought the thing on the spur of the moment so im happy for people to criticise , if i can get it through the IVA i'll be made up, if not then its for my daughter to blast around the farm ..lol
 

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Jam1 said:
Quite common for people to build 100 inchers using a Disco chassis was he sure it's a shortened 110?
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interesting... no he didn't say, maybe i assumed! is the chassis number in the same place on a disco? we found no evidence of a number on mine.... 100 or 101 neither here nor there is it .. is a disco chassis similar in appearance to a defender?
 
Inner cross members are different and the bumper mount bolts go through the front chassis legs horizontally on the disco but vertically on 90/110/defender and probably lots of other stuff
 
Jam1 said:
Inner cross members are different and the bumper mount bolts go through the front chassis legs horizontally on the disco but vertically on 90/110/defender
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there is a winch bar welded on the front but you can see the holes for the bumper still iirc, and they are verticle
 
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