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    Pictures of my D90

    Thanks for the reply, Langers. I've been watching Sky News about the record snows in the UK, so I agree a hotter Landrover floor would be a good thing there right about now. One thing, I'd rather be driving a Landrover than any other SUV when snow or ice is forecast. The W126 SEC, with...
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    Pictures of my D90

    Hi all, I finally got my Defender 90 running, after much trial and error, so I thought I may as well post a picture of the finished product. She ain't no looker, with that dog-**** brown paint job, but under the hood where it counts, she's downright illegal. Fitted a stainless steel set of...
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    Differential Surgery for Lower Gearing

    Wow, I'm all ears, Jai Landrover. Never heard of this Lt95 overdrive unit before. Are they sold new on the net anywhere that you know of ? I do appreciate the offer to buy one from you, but I work in Africa and visit the UK infrequently, which would complicate the logistics of acquiring the...
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    Differential Surgery for Lower Gearing

    Hi all, so I've got this D90 fitted with a 3.9V8 and an LT95 4-speed manual gearbox out of an early Rangie, and as soon as I got it running and out on the road, I noticed that I have to shift gears at very slow speeds to keep the rpm down, and that the gearbox whines louder than expected at the...
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    Holley Truck Avenger 470 CFM Carburettor in a 3.9 V8

    Sadly I sold the armored Rangie to recyclers who removed the custom back doors, the armored side windows and the heavy steel plating in the roof and body, before giving the vehicle a new lease of life as a mini tow-truck. Will post pictures of of similar such conversions in the Classic Rangie...
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    Holley Truck Avenger 470 CFM Carburettor in a 3.9 V8

    Eightinavee I am giving away my ignorance here, but I am not familiar with the lifter preload check you mention, but it sounds like an evaluation of the valve spring compressive strength. A lot of making do goes on here in the third world, and in a typical engine build, the used valve springs...
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    Holley Truck Avenger 470 CFM Carburettor in a 3.9 V8

    Robrennie and Fett I thank you for your replies both pointing to revs as the possible culprit. I am definitely going to fit a rev counter before I fire up that engine again, as playing it by ear obviously didn't work very well. The reason I went for the 470 CFM carb was that I originally...
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    Holley Truck Avenger 470 CFM Carburettor in a 3.9 V8

    Hi all, In my quest to squeeze more horses out of the 3.9liter V8 in my recently assembled Defender 90, I fitted the engine with a Holley Truck Avenger 470 CFM carb, sitting on an Edelbrock intake maifold. At first, despite my use of the agricultural 4-Speed gearbox in the D90, I was...
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    Mercedes ( M117 ) V8 Engine in a Defender 90 ?

    Even though I've already purchased a Holley carb, which means I am already pretty much committed to using a Rover V8 in my Defender 90, I am still very curious about other V8 options, given the less than enviable track record of all Rover V8's larger than the 3.5 liter. There has been talk...
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    1997 4.6 engine swap from hell please help

    I'm pulling up a chair for this one, since I am already buying a Holley carb in preparation for the exact same engine transplant. Standing by....
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    4.6 V8 with LT95 4-Speed Gearbox in a Defender 90

    Oh noooo. The horror. The horror of the dreaded LT77. I got stranded repeatedly due to the curse of that gearbox, back when my '87 Range Rover was still alive. The most memorable incident I had with the LT77 gearbox was the time when the gear-shift lever just up and flopped to the floor like...
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    4.6 V8 with LT95 4-Speed Gearbox in a Defender 90

    I hear ya, Beast, that 4-Speed LT95 definitely stands up to the test of time, and I 'd rather have than dependability than the luxury of a 5th gear in a gearbox that could go belly up with hard use.
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    4.6 V8 with LT95 4-Speed Gearbox in a Defender 90

    Wow, thanks again for this very specific information, Eightinavee and Tig9619. Come springtime, I'll be visiting my cousin who builds Morgans in his garage in Halewood, Liverpool, and I'll be taking along a cut-and-paste copy of the details you have both provided above, so that with his...
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    4.6 V8 with LT95 4-Speed Gearbox in a Defender 90

    Eightinavee, you have helped me make up my mind to stick with the LT95 grearbox, and if it is a bit agruicultural, I'd feel at home with that given that I did first learn to drive many moons ago on an old Massey Ferguson135 farm tractor, back when my legs were too short to reach the pedals of my...
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    4.6 V8 with LT95 4-Speed Gearbox in a Defender 90

    Thanks for the quick response Peter. Sounds like I need to be on the lookout for a 4.6 with that distributor ingnition, since I do want to keep the electronics to a bare minimum. Would you be aware of the years of manufacture in which the 4.6 V8 used that distributor system ? Regarding the...
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    4.6 V8 with LT95 4-Speed Gearbox in a Defender 90

    Hi all, Thanks to some helpful advice from the folks at another Land Rover forum, I am compiling a shopping list of components for what I think will work with a 4.6 Rover V8 installation into a Land Rover Defender 90, but I also thought there would be no harm in hearing a second opinion on how...
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