Thread: Stirlsilver's Disco Ute Project

Wow what I great job has taken me a few very long sessions to read this but have actually read every post on this thread it had me so interested.
I was also very excited seeing your in knox since its just down the road from me and this is pretty damn close to something I would like to do only to get to the last few pages and discover you have vanished off to Sydney.
Would have loved to have had a look at it but at least I have your thread for insperation and ideas while planning my own build.
I also must admit this thread is what helped convince me to buy the disco I did as I found this thread after a quick search of ute conversions for a landrover as I found one I thought sounded quite good and cheap.
So thanks heaps and keep up the great work.

Originally Posted by 3lud13

Wow what I great job has taken me a few very long sessions to read this but have actually read every post on this thread it had me so interested.
I was also very excited seeing your in knox since its just down the road from me and this is pretty damn close to something I would like to do only to get to the last few pages and discover you have vanished off to Sydney.
Would have loved to have had a look at it but at least I have your thread for insperation and ideas while planning my own build.
I also must admit this thread is what helped convince me to buy the disco I did as I found this thread after a quick search of ute conversions for a landrover as I found one I thought sounded quite good and cheap.
So thanks heaps and keep up the great work.

Thanks!! I'm sorry to have let you down there! Trust me from the point of view of this project, I would probably be getting close to finishing if I hadn't moved!!

Anyway, hello all! It's been a while. I've had issues in the last few months with exactly where I was going to end up. For a good while there there was a strong chance that I was going to end up in Wollongong so... I sent the car down there, and that's where it is still sitting in the container...

Anyway, the good news is that I'm staying in Castle Hill. Bad news is, I can't find anywhere for the project!! Does anyone have or know someone who has some space in a workshop or similar I can rent in or around Castle Hill?? I can't find anything!!

Any help really would be appreciated.

Originally Posted by stirlsilver

Thanks!! I'm sorry to have let you down there! Trust me from the point of view of this project, I would probably be getting close to finishing if I hadn't moved!!

Anyway, hello all! It's been a while. I've had issues in the last few months with exactly where I was going to end up. For a good while there there was a strong chance that I was going to end up in Wollongong so... I sent the car down there, and that's where it is still sitting in the container...

Anyway, the good news is that I'm staying in Castle Hill. Bad news is, I can't find anywhere for the project!! Does anyone have or know someone who has some space in a workshop or similar I can rent in or around Castle Hill?? I can't find anything!!

Any help really would be appreciated.

The price of success Stirl. Glad to see you are still plugging away at it.

Alan

Hello everyone. I'm back!

Today the car moved into its new home in Annangrove. At long last I managed to find somewhere to keep working on the car!

Prior to loading the car onto the trailer, we needed to pull out one spring that was still mounted in the car. The other side had shot out when the car was bouncing around loose in the container when it was moved from Melbourne to Sydney! Thanks to my buddy Isaac for giving me a hand today!







The new home. A bit smaller than what I had in Melbourne, but workable.



Next step is to get the engine moved into the workshop, and all my tools, benches and so on.

Question
Does anyone have an old cylinder head they no longer need? I need something to act as a jig while I finish the exhaust manifolds.

Welcome back mate. I have missed this thread.

Hope all goes well from now on

How is the new job?

Thanks Neale, I appreciate it.

The new job... Very very challenging that is for sure. I'm now general manager and the company needs a lot of work to get it to where it needs to be. Let's see how it goes. Definitely been thrown into the deep end on this one.

Just a quick update, the workshop is slowly getting organised looking forward to being in a location that doesn't leak!!


No one has any suggestions on where I can get hold of an old cylinder head? Surely there has to be one lying around somewhere?

Also, any suggestions on a supplier for the following bits?

• 4.0L short motor (4 bolt mains) with top hat liners
• Crank adaptor to allow using the 3.9L timing cover on the 4.0L short motor
• Head studs
• Cam
• Timing gear set
• Performance Gasket kit
• Lifters
• Rocker shafts
• Ported Cylinder Heads
• ZF 4HP24 gearbox inc. 4.6L parts to connect it to the engine

Turner Engineering - Remanufacturer of Land Rover Engines and supplier of Land Rover engine parts will have most of your typical engine rebuilding bits, some of the other stuff sounds like you will need to find a wrecker.

Happy new year everyone!

Originally Posted by slug_burner

Turner Engineering - Remanufacturer of Land Rover Engines and supplier of Land Rover engine parts will have most of your typical engine rebuilding bits, some of the other stuff sounds like you will need to find a wrecker.

Thanks for the link. Would you know anyone in Australia though? I'm already aware of Triump Rover Spares, but I was hoping to find someone in Sydney.

Today I spent some time in the workshop to keep things moving. I started pulling the front axle apart since the axle I have currently got fitted to the car is from the early version range rover which has the smaller radius arms. So I started the process of pulling it apart since it has Hi-Tough Axles and the ARB locker with the plan of transferring all the good bits into the other axle housing.

I have a question though, the CV's are quite different. Will I be able to fit these parts into the 1993 disco housing? It seems like quite a lot is different. The one with the single piece drive flange is the Hi-Tough axle and the other is the original 10 spline assembly.