Yes its ironic that the "Lightweight" actually weighs more than a Civvy 88" . Ive not yet stripped mine down, be a good excersise now I that can weigh it before & after with my load cell.
Our 24volt fitted for radio on display and picture of interest.
Yes its ironic that the "Lightweight" actually weighs more than a Civvy 88" . Ive not yet stripped mine down, be a good excersise now I that can weigh it before & after with my load cell.
It's here
Dan
'14 Def 110
'75 Lightweight
'98 300Tdi Disco (gone)
'80 2Dr Rangie Classic (gone)
So I've been trying to get a mate of mine, who is a VACC approved engineer, to come and have a look at the lightweight and tell me what it'd need to meet relevant ADRs.
Old Land Rovers aren't his usual thing, his business is more your custom hot rods, so he said he was going have to do some homework to find out what would apply. However, working on the assumption of vehicle class MC (off road) for 1975, it would need, amongst other things:
Inertia reel seat belts (already fitted);
Steel brake lines and new hoses (the lines in mine are copper and the rubber is knackered, so I was expecting this);
Reversing light activated by the gear lever;
Sun visors.
The last two might be a problem, although I suppose I could fashion a sun visor.
Which leaves the reversing light, which mine doesn't have.
Before I look into what I could possibly pinch from a civvy Series 3, what do other lightweight owners have fitted?
Did you have to get sun visors and reversing lights?
Or is there an exception that I could point my mate towards that would apply?
Cheers!
Dan
'14 Def 110
'75 Lightweight
'98 300Tdi Disco (gone)
'80 2Dr Rangie Classic (gone)
Went through this a few years ago.
No, you do not need Inertia Reel seatbelts, Lap Sash will be easier to pass. Whatever seat belts you use need the Australian Standards tag on them.
You do not need sun visors , you do need reversing light .
The hole is already in the gear stick bracket to add a reversing switch, I did not want to drill any holes so stuck a reversing light on the back with double sided tape.
Still there 3 years later.
Thanks!
Just had a re-read of your thread in alternative energies, any chance you could pm me the name of the engineer who did your cert? I can ask my guy to cross check with him.
Also been looking at the wheels, studs,nuts thread (think that's what it's called!) in the Series 3 pinnacles and the conversation about tubes or tubeless.
Wheels on mine are original Lwt 5" (not 5.5) rims with no safety lip. I need new tyres anyway, but part of what my engineer was looking at was that I'd need 'safety rims' with the lip. I told him they run tubes anyway, which seemed to satisfy him, but if I'm going to fit new tyres anyway, I'd sooner go tubeless, but this then may create a circular argument with the RWC bloke when I try to get it rego'd....!
Dan
'14 Def 110
'75 Lightweight
'98 300Tdi Disco (gone)
'80 2Dr Rangie Classic (gone)
I avoid Melbourne like the plague & only searched for country VASS inspectors.
had the original approval done by North East Engineering in Mt Beauty but he has fallen ill & no longer working. Blue plate for EV mods done by Peter Turner TechEd Teched Australia . He knows his stuff.
It's been a while, so thought I'd post an update of what's happening.
In short, not a lot!
Been slow going trying to find the time to work on it. Managed a few days over the Christmas hols and over Aus day long w/e, but that's about it.
So..... jobs completed thus far:
New seat belts;
Reverse light activated with switch on the bottom of the gear stick.
Half completed brake pipe renewal.
The last one of those has turned into a bit of a saga. Mine has a dual master cylinder and a 5-way split pwda valve thingy.
A general search for series 3 dual master cylinder brake systems usually leads to 1980 twin leading shoe systems and a 4 way split pwda.
This got me scratching my head slightly and wondering if I had some bastardised brakes due to it being built in 1975 but then released into civilian world in 1980 and some previous owner fitting some weird brake combo.
Anyway further searching led me to find a reference to a 1975 optional equipment catalogue which had this pic of the brakes, which is exactly what I've got!
So, now knowing that the brakes seem to be correct (10" single leading shoe with dual master and 5-way pwda) I've got all new brake pipes bent and flared, bagged a new freebie pwda from the old man, fitted a new servo and am deciding whether to rebuild the master cyl or just get a new one! Wheel cylinders were new before it was in storage in the UK, but they're cheap enough so might replace them.
Then the fun job of bleeding the brakes and not getting the valve in the pwda to throw a wobbly begins!
Dan
'14 Def 110
'75 Lightweight
'98 300Tdi Disco (gone)
'80 2Dr Rangie Classic (gone)
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