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Well if we're picking the eyes out of it...........
The shock absorber looks like its letting the fun out too.
Kinda glad I haven't tried to post pics of my stuff.
This thing is just such an awesome idea brought to fruition. I wonder what the crew on Pirate 4x4 would make of it if the whole build thread was posted up in the LR section.
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I'll get a chance to put a spanner on the spring bolt today. I suspect its tight , I loosened , rotated the & retightened the bolt when fitting the battery box because theres literally a bees dick of clearance , between it & bottom of battery box & flat of bolt head. I think the looseness mark is from then , but I'll double check.
Ha the shocker oil, Its all good , there dated 1973 , not many 45 year old cars still running original shockers. Still operates fine & passes 2 x RWC like that so i'm in no hurry to get new ones .
I dont think Pirate 4x4 are ready for EV yet , maybe try in 2025 ??
I'm not picking the eyes out of anything - I was simply making a helpful suggestion. Operating with this bolt loose will end up increasing the work needed for repair, as the hole will get enlarged.
If I was ten years younger, and had a bit more money, I would be emulating this conversion.
Was tongue in cheek, sorry if it was read otherwise.Quote:
Originally Posted by JDNSW
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The LR section of Pirate has been pretty quiet since 2008 and the GFC.Quote:
Originally Posted by goingbush
It has changed a lot. No longer does the board light up with posts of 'Sawz All, Sawz All' when someone finds an un molested RRC. The older forum members just say things like 'be a shame to chop that' and they used to be the 'worst offenders'.
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I dont mind at all . Oftentimes i don't see the forest for the trees and miss the bleeding obvious.
Off topic BUT - screening on Foxtel, Jay Leno’s garage, Season 4, Epsiode 4 - he is testing a Bollinger... [emoji1303][emoji3]
I clearly don't look far enough afield on AULRO.
It was only today that I found out about this vehicle / project from a post on a hunting website of all places:
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Nice job.
When initially planning the project did you consider a hybrid, so as to solve the range issue?
Know of any LR hybrid builds?
Range Rover is already offering a factory Rangie hybrid.
I know a guy who did this exact thing and sort of got it to work..Quote:
Originally Posted by goingbush
BUT..
Its not because he was doing the free energy thing it was because he couldnt get regen braking to work on a single battery bank so he put in 2 banks of batteries and the mother of all change over switches..
he drove with one motor running off of one bank and a second motor charged the second bank. He split his original bank in 2 so I dont recall it cost him too much more weight, from very vague memory he reckoned it got him 30ish% more range from when he only had electric drive.