Thread: Countys for Beginners

4 speed LT95 early, 5 speed LT85 late. The four speed is bigger, better, stronger but a bit urgent at highway speeds. The five speed is weaker but will struggle comfortably on the highway.

Lift up handle doors early, push button handles later. Drum brakes on rear, but that continued into 200tdi's.

Better CV's, 10 spline axles.

They're older.

Air con is equally poor.

Easier just to bolt the engine and geabox into a Tdi era defender then

That's heresy. You'll be strung up for that sort of thinking.

But sure.

Anyone feel free to correct me but I think County's ran from about 83/84 to 88/89. The series 111 went to a stage 1 v8 (series 111 body and suspension with county driveline), and then to the '110' fitted with range rover derived coilsprung fulltime 4x4 chassis.
'County' was just the trim level designation but all the station wagons bought into au were countys (i think you can still get a defender county in the uk). They went to a 5 speed in 85, before that 4 speed. I think there was a 120" cab chassis variant but not sure if this was a land rover or jaguar/land rover Australia thing. The isuzu motors were put in by Jra, other than that just the 3.5 su carby engine. The only differences i know of between 110's (countys) and Defenders is the load leveller in the county, thicker body panels in the county, interior differences, namely door cards, old style lever exterior door handles on the county and oil fed wheel bearings on the county. Obviously there are a few more differences than that but thats the bulk of it. Again, feel free to correct me if i'm wrong.

Originally Posted by VladTepes

OK so I don't know much about them.

I gather they were all coil sprung, all 110 wheelbase (in Australia anyway)

Except for the utes/traybacks which are actually 120 but labeled as 110.

just a few I can think of off the top of my head

carpeted interior (just like the SVX)

larger universal joints than the defender

better CV's than a Defender

galvanized strippings on the body

donaldson air filter on diesel

massive amount of engine braking on diesel (hardly use the brakes)

full dash on ac model

10 seater option

Galvanised cappings, defenders are colour coded.

The dash is also different and the steering wheel on the county is more angular whereas the defender is a little more padded and rounded. We are getting into the minutia now

No gal capping on later models.

Ribbed roof.