Thinking of buying a 1985 RR...

**jsp** · 3rd July 2007, 08:45 PM

hey Spudboy I just realised your close

thats a really straight looking car! Bit expensive though? guess it depends what you want. A few might have seen ebay and thought oh no - but I bought this:

(you can all laugh now)

And by the time I am finished with it I expect a zf 4sp auto and a 3.9 efi from a 89-94 rangie planted in with a new coat of paint and some other bits and bobs for about your $6k figure and then I know I have a fairly solid car as all is fairly solid except for maybe the diffs. Its sitting down at TOLL dry creek waiting to be delivered to me

I am tossing up though on putting a 3.5 with edelbrock manifold and holley 4 barrel carb in it I have spare, but I don't know the engines history even though it seems to run ok. I intend to run the car on LPG.

Then again I bought the car I was really after - a 2 door with a little rust - not allot like the last 2 I had. I have always wanted a good 2 door.

There was a blue 88 rangie I think which looked ok in the few pics in the classies and it went for a tad under 4K as supposedly a good solid runner. There's been one or two around Adelaide the past few months which have gone in the 6-8K range but they were all 91-93 3.9's which from a distance looked real clean.

Let me know if I can help out

I am overly critical of little things when looking at buying a Rangie

**spudboy** · 3rd July 2007, 08:51 PM

jsp - n..i..i..i..i...c..e.... paint job! Did you pay a lot extra for that

. The things people do to perfectly good cars.....

I'm not in a hurry. I was attracted to this one because it hasn't been mucked about with. There is something strangely alluring about the earlier range rovers with the plain steel rims! Will just wait and see how it pans out.
David

**jsp** · 3rd July 2007, 08:59 PM

Originally Posted by spudboy

jsp - n..i..i..i..i...c..e.... paint job! Did you pay a lot extra for that

. The things people do to perfectly good cars.....

Its the gold pin striping between the two tone which was the deciding factor.....

I quite like colour coded 3 spoke vogue rims which most seem to not be keen on?

You could always offer the guy on the corner of Richmond and South Roads 6K for his ugly red rangie with gold lettering and fat star rims, he's had it there for 4 years now and the price has gone from 15k to 9k. I laugh everytime I see it!

**HangOver** · 3rd July 2007, 09:08 PM

Originally Posted by spudboy

The tailpipe was sooty, but I am used to a diesel so pretty normal in my eyes. What is the big drama with sooty?

when I got mine i thought it was just running rich too but after leaning both carbs right off it was still rich to the point of using about a tank and a half in about 1/2 a day.
Try turning it over from cold I always got a splatter of crap out the pipe but once it was warm it stopped blowing crap.

I had to get the carbs re-built about $700 from memory.
Now runs fine and no black sooty tail pipe, (well not much anyhow).
Maybe you can borry one of those spark plug indicators that shows rich and lean.?

**Maggot4x4** · 3rd July 2007, 09:34 PM

I paid 6k for my '85 3 years ago, but it had a 4BD1 / LT85 conversion already done.

You can get a p38a for 6k now

**BigJon** · 4th July 2007, 07:36 AM

Originally Posted by Maggot4x4

You can get a p38a for 6k now

If you are Scouse you can get one for $4000

.

**spudboy** · 5th July 2007, 10:45 AM

Compression test results: 140Psi plus/minus 5psi for all cylinders. Is this acceptable for a 3.5 high compression engine?

The quote for getting the air con fixed is around $800, It needs a new thermostat and a new Transceiver (?) valve. Half of the dash has to be pulled to do the work. Any comments?
David

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