Thread: holden or not

Originally Posted by gromit

Thanks Charlie, batteries are another one of mine. It is possible to find black plastic ones that don't look too out-of-place (mines a calcium battery in black plastic) but the brightly coloured ones always look odd when the bonnet is lifted.

Maybe we need to put together a list of where to find some of these items i.e. suppliers for rubber cased batteries, crossply tyres (there have been some discussions on here in the past), 'old fashioned' copper cored HT lead (in black of course) etc. etc.
Another forum I use (nothing to do with Land Rovers) has a section where they list bearing numbers, suppliers etc. etc. This has proved very useful keeping the wife's car on the road.


Colin

Just bought a couple of metres of the black copper cored spark plug wire last week. Made by Narva and stocked in Gympie by Repco. Befor that I was having trouble finding it.

Originally Posted by LRO53

MMM interesting so that would make the New 2007 - Defenders not Land Rovers anymore as they have Ford Engines.

I think a land rover is a land rover what ever engine it has in it. From Jet Engine to a Holden 202

good point

restore it to how you might need the car to perform
if your driving the old landy to get bread the 1.6 l will do but if you want to go places and need reliability i would say 186, land crusier 4 speed gearbox and transfer with sailsbury rear 4.7 and some nice parabolics

hmmmmmm sounds familiar