Thread: Defender 110 Station Wagon body onto Perentie chassis

Here's a part finished one in VIC.

Land Rover 110 Perentie | Cars, Vans & Utes | Gumtree Australia Yarra Ranges - Montrose | 1220739119



Colin

Originally Posted by rar110

Gday Dervish
I’m doing this again later this year. Putting a 200tdi body on a Perentie chassis. I’ll have to look through your write up. I’m trying to leave all electrics from 200tdi as is. It should be fairly similar and in a better state than the Perentie electrics which has been modded to a early v8 110 body.

I used the 300tdi loom; these motors all only need the same couple of wires to run. I don't recall what plug the 200tdi uses for the chassis loom, but if you have the donor vehicle you can take both sides off and adapt it to the Perentie chassis loom. Are you building a new wagon or replacing the body on your old one?

Im building a new wagon with my son. It will be his car.

The Perentie was originally a wagon and was one of the very early disposals. It was bought by British Off Road who put a V8 county body on it and a custom rear fuel tank. I think I sent you photos a couple of years ago of the fuel tank. This project has been waiting a while.

I bought a 200tdi in reasonable condition with a blown motor. I did look at rebuilding the motor but parts seem to be getting scarce. And the 4BD1 is so good. I also have a refurbed LT95 (thanks Bearman). So all the essentials for a nice 110 rebuild.

Colin - I looked at the project (out of interest only).

The compliance plate says “seats 2”

But the person is selling it as a wagon...

Hmmm - could be trouble me thinks...

Originally Posted by grey_ghost

Colin - I looked at the project (out of interest only).

The compliance plate says “seats 2”

But the person is selling it as a wagon...

Hmmm - could be trouble me thinks...

No, mine's the same; it just needs a mod plate for the seating. The seats are all factory equipment so it's a tick-and-flick exercise.

The vehicle in that ad is good value, I'm surprised it hasn't sold.

Originally Posted by Dervish

I wrote up a long reply to your PM but the forum timed out before I could send it.

In short, no; besides marrying up the td5 loom with the Perentie chassis loom there aren't really other issues you're missing. Don't be fooled into thinking the job is easy, though. The work is mostly simple but there's mountains of it; you are basically taking the vehicle completely to pieces and reassembling it. I have hundreds of photos of the process and my memory is probably still reasonable, so if you have specific questions let me know.

I guess the important thing is that I never regret doing this conversion to my vehicle and I'd do it again tomorrow if that's what it took to have the 110 I have.

What fuel tank arrangement did you end up going with? Did you get it complained for 5 people or it is still a '2 seater'?

Originally Posted by noddy

What fuel tank arrangement did you end up going with? Did you get it complained for 5 people or it is still a '2 seater'?

Mod-plated for 5, strictly speaking it will always be complianced for 2 having originally been a GS. As for the tank, I must have posted this picture ten times:

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The tank is 5mm aluminium, around 100L; it's not a complex design, any marine tank maker will be able to knock one up. It sits very high up, if I had one made again I'd get it made deeper and with three baffles (this has two and the fuel sloshes about a bit). There's a guy on facebook who used a RRC long range tank in the same location; probably a good solution. I can PM you his name. You can use the Perentie tank, but have to cut it up and you lose the under seat tool box (or in your case, the place where the ECU was).

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