Lionel, before getting too carried away or spending much money on the D1, check the floor for rust. Look carefully, particularly above the fuel tank and the front passenger footwell.
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Lionel, before getting too carried away or spending much money on the D1, check the floor for rust. Look carefully, particularly above the fuel tank and the front passenger footwell.
I put a SWB Series2 onto a RRC chassis in the 1980's , but I cut 10" out of the chassis , its not difficult only took a couple of weeks, no youtube back then.
One option for my next project will be putting Series3 Tray onto a D1 V8, keeping it 100" and replacing the tray with a shortened 109 tub .
I'll have chat about it to my VASS engineer when I'm getting my Dodge inspected.
Hello Ian,
Expenditure on the D1 will be a battery. Just to be able to keep the engine serviceable and so car can be driven around instead of sitting idle. My main intention was the engine. The body was part of a job lot.
The D1 can tow the trailer around the paddock when I fill some hollows in. I don't want to get the Jeep dirty [bigsmile1]
Kind regards
Lionel
Oh god no, I'm so excited about that. That one will be cleaned out and kept as an absolutely standard collected vehicle. I worry that all of the 3drs are in really bad condition and have been all cut up and bashed.
The donor D1 for me is a really poor rusted out vehicle that I pretty much just bought for the driveline and rolling gear.
Aren't there legalities regarding body swaps, pretty sure i read that both had to be a similar era to pass engineering which would rule out a D1 chassis.
Yes - the new vehicle has to meet ADRs applicable to the chassis. So if you used a post 94 Disco chassis the doors on the series body would need to have side intrusion bars etc.
Isn't it easier and easier for engineering to simply cut off the disco suspension towers and weld them onto the series chassis.