Thread: Mods/Standard

Yep chassis will be cut just past the wheels with a simple tray and bar work. I've got a 90 litre aluminium tank that fits between the tray and chassis behind the cab. Was toying with the idea of a three cylinder gas manifold like in the back of disco's but you can't take extra gas to steep point. Next thing on my shopping list is the 302 winsor and a c4. But don't tell SWMBO.

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Just a little on that, you can't fit a regular "late 2a gearbox" pushing a 1 ton gearbox. The mainshaft is too short.

A 1 ton gearbox is designed for 9.00 X 16 tyres (36") if you use it on standard tyres you will be flat out at 80KPH untill the engine blows up from over-revving. There is no Fairey, Toro or Rocky-Mountain Overdrive manufactured to suit the 1 ton transfer box. I know I have them.

Diana

funny, the ones I pulled out of the tray back 1 ton series III's fit just fine,as did the tcase that was in fozzy (which is a 1.16 aggregate) I know the FC ones are different and if youve got them then hand one over I want it in fozzy, speeds overrated, low speed crawl and pull is what counts

Originally Posted by Grover-98

Ok so you are saying the Series III is best avoided?

You mentioned only a little on the series II i am sure it has its faults as well? So you believe my best option is to look for a late Series II?

nope series IIIs are great but the II's are more "agricultural" which is what a lot of guys want and like about them.

at the end of the day the key features that make them landies aren't that far apart.

I love the idea of a hybrid!

I have a 84 Range Rover sitting in the paddock and i am sure i could pick up a nice 2A Body. mix them all together might be a goer one day when i can afford it

And turn it in to something like one of these two



TIM.

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

funny, the ones I pulled out of the tray back 1 ton series III's fit just fine,as did the tcase that was in fozzy (which is a 1.16 aggregate) I know the FC ones are different and if youve got them then hand one over I want it in fozzy, speeds overrated, low speed crawl and pull is what counts.

Then it wasn't a 1 ton box, as the 1 ton boxes are the same as the Series IIB Forward control boxes. It would also be highly unlikely that you drove a SIII 1 Ton in Australia as they were not imported to Oz. The only one that is known to be here is a private import in 1974 which is currently lost.

You can tell the 1 ton and forward control boxes as they have 3 gears on the intermediate gear cluster and are all helical cut. The mainshaft constant gear runs on the middle of the three intermediate gears (same as LT230) and hence the extra length in the mainshaft. The PTO cover plate/mainshaft bearing holder is slightly convex in the helical box where the regular box has a concave in it.

The Series transfer ratio up to suffix A was 1.148:1 in high range and 2.888:1 in low while the later suffix C t/f were 2.35:1 in low. It you want crawler gears use a 12D prefix LT230 with 1.667:1 in high range. (All the LT230s have the same low transfer which is actually lower than the helical series box.)

No you can't have one of my FC boxes. I have 3 vehicles that require them as standard specification.

Diana

Originally Posted by long stroke

And turn it in to something like one of these two



TIM.

That series 1 looks I have 2 here so may keep one original and the other on a shortened Rangie chassis.

Of all the series Rovers I have here the 1969 11A has been the pick of them by far. Nothing much to go wrong in it as so simple. Never had any grief with the gear box. My series 3s have all had gearbox problems as a result of Land Rover trying to put synchromesh in a already over stressed gear box. We have worked out if the Series box is not driven with anger in 1st, 3rd and reverse they have now proven to very durable here.
As pointed out before the dash in a series 3 is fragile.


Tony

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

The all synchromesh gearbox is sort of nice to drive but has a quite high reverse gear so when you try to reverse out of the gully that you got trapped in, it's like starting off in second gear. So you give it a little bit of revs to get moving and the reverse idler gear shaft pops out the side of the casing.

SIII (all synchro) boxes have a LOWER ratio reverse gear, not higher.

Land Rover gear ratios