Topic: At Last (Read 8564 times)

Amma · « **on:** December 22, 2009, 09:49:04 »

Hoping that, at last, this picture appears.

Every time I try to upload pictures from my pc to my Photobucket account it cocks up so I've had to change the settings on my phone so that the picture isn't too big to upload as an attachment.

So, here goes!

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Amma · « **Reply #1 on:** December 22, 2009, 09:49:37 »

Yay!

It worked.

:D

kevinragman · « **Reply #2 on:** December 22, 2009, 10:39:40 »

:)Nice looking vehicle you have there!! :D

Amma · « **Reply #3 on:** December 22, 2009, 11:48:05 »

Why thank you kind sir.

:D

VERY happy with the grip I'm getting with those 9.00x16 tyres.

Even had to go and rescue a Discovery last night with a broken clutch release fork.

:roll:

bogie · « **Reply #4 on:** December 22, 2009, 18:55:18 »

A PROPER LANDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Amma · « **Reply #5 on:** December 23, 2009, 10:40:48 »

Certainly is a proper Landy.

:D

I've re-built a Series 2a that was an abandoned project after the shed that the bodywork was in got crushed by a falling tree. My old Series 3 had a knackered chassis so I basically re-built the chassis and running gear from the 2a and transfered the bodywork from my 3 onto it.

Anyway, I decided to build it to be a one-ton replica and she now sits on parabolics (with an extra leaf at the rear), one-ton shocks and shackles, 11" drums at the front and 9.00x16 tyres. I have plenty of lights on it and all sorts of gadgets. The next modification will be to fit a 200Tdi engine in the New Year. I'm just hoping that my rather poorly engine that's in it just now manages to last that long.

:?

Little-Green-Machine · « **Reply #6 on:** December 23, 2009, 13:15:02 »

looking kick ass dude! :D

definatly a proper landy ;)

lightweight-love · « **Reply #7 on:** December 28, 2009, 22:59:40 »

Looks great! 200tdi will transform it!

Amma · « **Reply #8 on:** December 29, 2009, 09:30:31 »

Well the 200Tdi can't be any worse than the current engine.

Had to go out yesterday and when I got back I worked out that it had been averaging a whopping 7 miles per gallon and that wan't even towing or even going over mountains!

:shock: :doh:

bogie · « **Reply #9 on:** December 29, 2009, 19:17:03 »

You do have 4 gears! I could have towed you and still get 35mpg. Get the 200 in her ,you wont regrett it!

Amma · « **Reply #10 on:** February 11, 2010, 07:40:42 »

Started fitting the Tdi at weekend and was promised by some friends that they would help but no-one turned up so saturday saw me stripping the Disco down to the point where the engine could just be lifted out on sunday morning. Since I use the 109" every day (well until the swap started) I couldn't start to take that apart until it was time to do it so that only started on sunday morning too by which time one of my neighbours had offered to help out as I have done quite a bit on his Saab for him.

By the end of sunday the petrol engine was taken out of the 109" and the now liberated Tdi was bolted to the 'box in Amma and I was able to check that the clutch was working fine after one of my mates had had problems with his conversion to a 200Tdi in his 90. :shock:

Monday the kids were back in school but sadly not by means of the Landy. :'( But this meant that I had a little less help and also less time before I would have to pack up my tools and get the little ones from primary school. Anyway, I am pleased to announce that finally yesterday the engine roared into life and filled the inside of the Landy with thick black smoke as the engine hadn't run for over a year and it didn't help that I was having to fully make the exhaust system as it was such a tight fit. I finally packed up last night at five past ten and this morning I have still got to re-fit the floorplates and secure the battery properly. Then the first run for her will be to take our eldest lad to an appointment at a place about 12 miles away.

:D

Well not really! I had to have a quick go on our road when I got it started and I can say that when that turbo kicks in.....

.....boy does it kick!!!

;) :D :shock:

Little-Green-Machine · « **Reply #11 on:** February 11, 2010, 12:11:53 »

wicked! :twisted: got any pics of the conversion?

Amma · « **Reply #12 on:** February 11, 2010, 18:27:52 »

Rather stupidly I did not.

:oops:

I ended up just getting on with it and forgot all about taking pictures for future reference and possibly 'talking' others through the process.

In reality it was very different from any of the write-ups I had read due to the fact that mine used to be a six-cylinder which means that the gearbox sits further back than a 'normal' 109" and therefore makes it a much tighter fit between the footwells and also for the downpipe of the exhaust. I have ended up making the 'full' exhaust system myself.

When I say "full" what I mean is what there is of one. I have decided to have a side exit exhaust on the nearside just in front of the rear wheel.

:D

Once I get around to it I shall try and get some pictures posted up.

Little-Green-Machine · « **Reply #13 on:** February 11, 2010, 19:52:44 »

good stuff i like side exits nice and loud :D

bogie · « **Reply #14 on:** February 11, 2010, 22:03:56 »

Nice one o lad!!!

NiteMare · « **Reply #15 on:** February 12, 2010, 00:11:18 »

i did a shorty exhaust on my 88" when i fitted my Tdi, it ended at the trans' brake ...

i put up with the noise for a week and then decided enough was enough, i cut about 18" off it and then started refabbing and built a straight thru following the original route, it's now got a nice diesel growl without deafening me...

my 2a 109 will get a full length exhaust with one silencer box as i want that to be fully respectable when i get round to the Tdi conversion on it, i want it to just purr

Amma · « **Reply #16 on:** February 12, 2010, 08:10:42 »

Hmmm!

It is a bit too loud just now but I think that may be down to it blowing a bit from the downpipe. Only really noticed it yesterday when checking things under the bonnet with the engine running.

:oops:

Looks like I'll have to take it off again later and check for holes.

:roll:

Yoshi · « **Reply #17 on:** February 12, 2010, 17:54:45 »

Quote from: Amma on February 12, 2010, 08:10:42

Hmmm!

It is a bit too loud just now but I think that may be down to it blowing a bit from the downpipe. Only really noticed it yesterday when checking things under the bonnet with the engine running.

:oops:

Looks like I'll have to take it off again later and check for holes.

:roll:

Bound to be a hole somewhere!!!!!

Wouldnt be yours without one :-p

She had best be ready for our oil burning retention of our title!!!!! lol

Amma · « **Reply #18 on:** February 12, 2010, 20:37:38 »

Do not worry oh one of the steaming Landy, she will be ready!!!

:twisted:

Yoshi · « **Reply #19 on:** February 12, 2010, 21:18:34 »

Goody goody, so now with this new found power, we will be quicker than before, and wont need to take detours for water! lol

See, this is how good we are, one of us in a 109 petrol and one of us in an overheating 110, we still managed to beat everyone else in distance and everything else!

muddyjames · « **Reply #20 on:** February 13, 2010, 08:59:46 »

I thought a conversion would take more than 3 days to do with having to weld new mounting brackets in place etc etc. It took me 3 days to change a disco engine in a disco and a like for like engine!

When I get a proper landy I would like a 200tdi in it too.

Amma · « **Reply #21 on:** February 13, 2010, 09:18:38 »

Well it all depends on how skilled you are I suppose.

I have mood swings that mean that when I feel good I can get on and do things in a short space of time but then I can also sometimes get part way through something and have a low which means that it can then take eighteen months to do a rather simple re-build that once I started at it again saw the Landy completed and MoT'd in less than a week.

It almost got to the point on wednesday where I felt like pouring petrol all over it and throwing a lit match from a distance but just as I was starting to feel down my nextdoor neighbour came back with a part that I had been waiting for for a couple of days and I was able to fit that and about an hour later I was able to start the engine up and even get her to move under her own steam.

Once that happened I had a great big 'turbo-induced' grin on my face and that spurred me on to get the last bits done.

:D

All I can say is that I now know why so many people fit Tdi's into Series Landies as it makes them so much better. I have found that I am not having to wait for a huge gap to pull out into traffic and when I do pull out, I do not hold traffic up whilst accelerating.

cooper956 · « **Reply #22 on:** February 13, 2010, 09:55:04 »

shes in then wounder how it compares with my 2.8td in mine.

NiteMare · « **Reply #23 on:** February 13, 2010, 15:58:27 »

i did like the transformation of my 88 when i swapped the engine, as you say, "no waiting for big gaps in traffic" ..

it really has made it an every day usable car with reasonable economy for a mobile barn, i've got 3.54 diffs in it and 7.50x16s it will soon be getting an overdrive, i haven't modified the accellerator lever which means i don't get full throttle but it still does over 75 (just) as it stands, it has potential to be scary fast once the o/d is in, the bonus really tho should be on the motorway, where it should come down to not too much over tickover at 60-65mph and hopefully increase it's economy :dance:

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