stripping her down

Well im at that stage were i need to start thinking about undoing and loosening as many nuts and bolts and fasters as possible before i remove the body work.

As i want to keep the land rover fully assembled until the 22nd of july when i hope to lift the body work off i am removing as many bolts as possible but leaving enough to hold the body together.

I have the wings being held on by 4 bolts, the rear tub by 8 and then those along the top of the windscrean that is literaly it!

I have removed the seat box which was a bit of a job but its out now and will be under repair soon. I found a nice suprise when i took the transmition tunnel off, my gearbox appears to be a factory rebuilt unit, Probably to Suffix D or E spec which is the latest series box. For this reason i will put this box back in and hopefully its gear changing problems will be sorted with a new clutch.

Hear is a picture of the land rover now. There's not much change as i havent removed much just loosed everything. There is no seat box, floor or transmition tunnel tough...

Change of mind

More thinking and I am now pretty sure i will go for a 200Di instead of 200Tdi, in other words remove the turbo from the 200Tdi. This means that there wont be as much power as would have been produced by the turbo but to be honest a series 3 is just not designed not travel at the speed a 200Tdi could propell it at and the temptation would be to strong to just put the foot down + its braking abilities are limited. There would also always be the worry of destroying my gearbox, diff and halfshafts.

I will be keeping the disco rad, intercooler, oilcooler and turbo so that if one day i feel the urge to fit them i can. This is an interesting link... http://www.glencoyne.co.uk/200di2.htm .

200tdi here we come!!

Well, I'v been discusing it with a few people now and i am probably going to fit a 200Tdi or 200Di(remove the turbo)... Im quite tempted to go for the first option!

I am hoping to buy an MOT failed Land Rover discovery that i will break. I will keep the Engine, engine electrics, inter-cooler, rad etc. and sell the rest.

The 2.5L 200tdi produces 111 BHP as opposed to my current 2.25nad wich produces 62 BHP.... thats quite a large difference and I cant wait!!

This isnt for sure yet but im 95% sure so it looks like it will happen.

Sprocket puller

Its not directly to do with the rebuild but i thought i would share it with you any way.I didnt want to by the tool as they looked pretty simple but cost a bit, so i decided to make one myself. It is a spocket puller for the timing chain sprockets. You bolt it onto the sprocket through the 2 slots and then tighten the centre bolt which is tapped into the puller, this then pulls the sprocket off... pretty simple really. Oh and it actually works!

A few pictures:

Td5 Bulkhead

I have now bought a bulkhead from a Td5 2001 defender, It is actually very similar to the series 3 bulkhead and only needs footwells replacing, transmition tunnel size increasing and the series 3 type windscrean hinges welding on, Which is quite amazing considering the Td5 bulkhead is just over 20 years new than my land rover.

Sorry about not updating in ages... im back now!

Sorry for not updating in a while but i'v had exams and have been pretty busy, I can get back to the land rover now though.