Thread: II and IIa owners own up !!!

1966 11a 109" on the road in a matter of days. I want more of them and a forward control basket cases anything will do.

Originally Posted by Olive Drab

... I want more of them and a forward control basket cases ...

I may have one of them - December 1967 - as for basket case I was planning on a ground up re-build and was acquiring parts when I ended up with 2 more. Now it's pretty much surplus to needs.

Haven't decided how/when to dispose of it yet.

Diana

'Gus (short for Vagus) is a 1958 Series II SWB Hardtop. Would have originally been a 2L but has a 186 in it at the moment.

I have owned him since I was 15 but only recently started work on him.

Restoration is being documented in the Projects / Tutorials section.

i have a series 2 shorty ex army that has been rolled and a rusted out chassy used to use it for the farm until the chassy consatinned on its self it sits doin nothing now...\i have a tray back 109 with the LR 6 cylinder petrol engine i am swapping out the shortys engine g-box and axel assemblys into the tray back to build an daily driver and for a bit of fun in the bush

Cheers Shaun

I have a 1970 2a, it was a 6cyl but one of its pistons decided to part company at 100kph. didn't do it any good either. Then the search was on and father found a series 3 engine n gearbox from a coal mine landy north of adelaide. Vehicle had been run over by a big mine truck. Anybody who thinks it is easy to change from a 6cyl rover motor to a 4cyl diesel motor, had better think again. Despite it being the optional engine for the Landy the frustrating things were the small bits that had to be made up. leaving the gearbox where it was resulted in the injector pump being hard up against the firewall. Moving the whole lot forward meant making a distance piece for the rear propshaft and shortening the front one. This engine had the butterfly valve fitted to the inlet manifod which I used until I could get an alternator with a vacuum pump on the rear. When this was all up and running I fitted a turbo to it about 5000k later. This made it as fast (and better acelleration) as the old 6yl and a lot cheaper to run. I also had a 4core holden statesman radiator made up to fit in front of the grille. Also made a new fibreglass grille to cover the radiator, looks a bit like the 110's. It also had an extra shaft running off the crankshaft driving a large fan. This was controlled by an aircoditioning compressor clutch via a temperature sensor in the top hose, later changed to just fastening it to the radiator with a cable tie. 15 years and about 200000klm later and it needs a lot of TLC and it has not run for the last 2 years since we upgraded to a S1 Discovery, with a V8 on LPG. Looking back, I should have put a V8 on LPG in the 2a instead of the diesel.

Considering the problems Landrover had when they put a turbo on that engine, you must be a sympathetic driver! (Although to be fair, Landrover put it on the 2.5 version, but that had a five bearing crankshaft, which you probably did not.

I don't know about the V8 - although some have successfully run V8s through the Series gearbox, more have found that they go through a lot of gearboxes. But again, sympathetic driving would probably make a lot of difference, and they have mostly been using the S3 box - the late S2a ids probably the pick of them.

John

Originally Posted by Sleepy

OK, Problem.
Bought donor vehicle.Solid 65 SIIa (no engine, no rust)
Mmmmmmmm.........Looks too good to dismantle.
Perhaps I could source a 186 or a nice 5 bearing or maybe even a Tdi and get this one going too?
Perhaps I need 3rd vehicle to get the other two going?
Perhaps I should join Land Rovers annonymous


"Hello my name is Paul it's been three weeks since I've bought an old land rover...."

Sleepy, 10 months down the track, what did you end up doing with the 65 IIa ute?

Here is my 1960 Series II ute. Its still a work in progress and has been for the last 2 years.

Its got/had the following
3.9 V8
ZF auto + LT230
LC60 front and rear axles
Hybrid Defender/LC60 Power steering
1310 propshafts
LC60 power brakes
37" Maxxis Creepy Crawlys on 16x10's with 2" spacers
Guard trim - extended military cut
Recoloured to Rustgard Blue with Rustgard white over the window sills.

still lots more to come.