Thread: REAL 4 Wheel drives, Real 4 Wheel drivers, Real 4 Wheel driving

Lovely video, but OMG what a pain to put in a wading plug and loosen the fan belt for a 45 cm water crossing

Originally Posted by AnD3rew

Lovely video, but OMG what a pain to put in a wading plug and loosen the fan belt for a 45 cm water crossing

I don't see it like that, what's your hurry? Ahhh, the 2ist century, instant gratification, no time to stop & look around. Bob

Great old vid! it's great to see most of it is relevnt even today..in those days you really had to drive them and not rely on fancy gear to do the work for you, ETC, diff locks, ABS, and power steering and short shifting gearboxes

I love the old Leyland brothers vid clips too!

Must say tho..that series 3 gets flogged a bit!

Originally Posted by bob10

I don't see it like that, what's your hurry? Ahhh, the 2ist century, instant gratification, no time to stop & look around. Bob

Good point mate

Originally Posted by 4x4 MORE

Must say tho..that series 3 gets flogged a bit!

Yes, the thought crossed my mind that I wouldn't necessarily want to own that particular truck or his kidneys................

Getting a bit old - both me and my truck.

Cheers,

I like the way, when the going got tough, the driver casually dons the sun glasses, with all the panache of James Bond. Priceless. Speaking about priceless, the latest edition of LRM ' s price guide has the series one priced at:

project : 1,000 - 2,000 GBP /1482 - 2965 AUD

Average: 3,000 - 4,500 GBP / 2668 - 6671 AUD

Good : 5,000 - 9,000 GBP / 7412 - 13342 AUD

Excellent : 10,000 - 30,000 GBP / 14825 - 44475 AUD

Originally Posted by AnD3rew

Lovely video, but OMG what a pain to put in a wading plug and loosen the fan belt for a 45 cm water crossing

That is a very english thing IMO, instead of sorting it out at an engineering level it is answered with "Just pop in this plug here, and loosen that there..."

Not hard to sort out a one way valve and a tensioner to suit, but it was friday and if they didn't get to the pub on time the beer may have got cold...

One must also remember that the Land-Rover was built as a stop-gap vehicle by the Rover Company to tide them over the post World War 11 steel rationing so it was henceforth built mainly from surplus aluminium with a steel box section chassis, until the Company could resume production of the P3 sedan, Rover's allocation of steel in 1947/48 was 5,000 tons.