Thread: Defender 110 Station Wagon body onto Perentie chassis

Speak to Brad at KLR.
They have done it I believe

What's the issues with sticking a 4bd1 into a 2001 defender??? You can fit one into one up to 2005.
Pretty sure Jason Bell (Fubar) on here has a thread on doing his in his td5 130, have a look through the Isuzu landy group threads.

Originally Posted by Vern

What's the issues with sticking a 4bd1 into a 2001 defender??? You can fit one into one up to 2005.
Pretty sure Jason Bell (Fubar) on here has a thread on doing his in his td5 130, have a look through the Isuzu landy group threads.

The engineer I spoke with in NSW, was having issues with fitting the 4BD1 (which I believe ended production in the mid 1990s) into a vehicle manufactured in 2001 which met higher emission standards EU2(?) with its original Td5?

I intend to get another opinion, but it seems fitting a 4BD1 into a Td5 is more problematic than doing a body swap onto a Perentie chassis (plus I also get a gal chassis if I go the Perentie chassis option). I think it would be easier fitting a 4BD1 with a Defender Tdi.

Hi, I think KLR is doing a 4BDIT into a previoulsy TD5 extreme so they would not do this without eng approval and there are RMS engineers in their area who are very familiar with LR's, as also near DPL. Am sure they could give you the good oil.

Originally Posted by noddy

The engineer I spoke with in NSW, was having issues with fitting the 4BD1 (which I believe ended production in the mid 1990s) into a vehicle manufactured in 2001 which met higher emission standards EU2(?) with its original Td5?

I intend to get another opinion, but it seems fitting a 4BD1 into a Td5 is more problematic than doing a body swap onto a Perentie chassis (plus I also get a gal chassis if I go the Perentie chassis option). I think it would be easier fitting a 4BD1 with a Defender Tdi.

That's exactly what Fubar did with his td5 130 in NSW. I suggest you find another engineer.

Thanks all. I will speak with KLR.

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.

Pictures, because everybody loves pictures:

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