Thread: Question time again

Seams to look all rite but wouldnt like to spend much on purchase as it looks like a beach goer with the sausage maker on the front seem a long way to travel to get a veh that you could find localy look round in yards and on streets u will find one closer if u look hard enough i found 3 rangies not far from my place all sitting in a yard asked the bloke who owns em wats goin on wif em and he said make an offer i havent yet but will soon and thats how i found grumpy sittin on the side of road out of rego and lookin sad now she's a goer but has terminal chasiss rust and i didnt even see any when i first looked so you have to be careful when buying somthing thats lived on the coast best of luck

cheers


chris

Get them to send you more pix of behind the front wheels and the underneath. Also, is it a rust hole on the transmission tunnel in the pic?

Does look like a beach machine.

Good luck.

Cheers
Simon.

Looks like the rear cross member has been replaced aswell

its been used as a beach wagon, look at the pic and you can spot some rust on the bull bar right near the front where it bolts onto the chassis, where the spring hanger for the front springs hang out....

I'll bet 10:1 that there is rust in the front spring hangers and there will be rust in all the other usual chassis parts... not hard to fix but annoying and if its been used on the beach then Ill add at 5:1 that the internal supports of the bulkhead are rusting from the inside out and theres no way to check for that untill the rust holes appear.. theres minimal rust cause its already had the easy repairs done to it.

with the wing mirrors on it like it is Id also suggest its been used for towing probably only a boat onto and off of beaches, but enough to make me warey of the rear diff axles and propshafts.

why is the RHR quater panel discolored?

by the look of the front hubs its probabley also got freewheeling hubs in it how long since they were last engaged?

engine rebuilt by best mechanic around, Funny I dont remember working on that vehicle but seriously best by what standard, Best=cheapest? best=most thourough didnt skimp on anything right down to tap cleaning the sump nuts? Best=bloke who knows every little thing about landrovers? Best=mate who helped me knock it over during a couple of smokos over a carton?

If he had the best mechanic looking at it why havent they diagnosed the warm slipping clutch. it can only be 4 things in that type of vehicle

1. worn friction plate
2. failing pressure plate application springs/plate excessively worn
3. throwout bearing sticking
4. wrong slave cylnder/rod/not assembled correctly.

aparently they already replaced the clutch and I would assume the throw out bearing..so assuming that they used the master/slave cylnder that came with it... (and you dont need to take them out or apart to get the engine off for rebuild)

so Im thinking that since master/slave cylnder failure is pretty much out cause it wouldnt work when cold either and since its only doing it warm the only things left are 1+2 which leads me to belive that someones telling porkies.

why does it look like its coming with a complete set of diffs, did the other owner change them for a different ratio, or is he like me and carries spares cause he knows his driving style can be a bit detrimental to them?

and $2000 wont get you a really good rebuild on the 2.25 unless the motor was already in good nick I went $1500 on kermits diesel and I'll admit that It was a half assed job just to get the really important stuff back in spec so that the engine might last through the prototyping process (I want it roadworthy and moving under its own power untill i get it roadworthy) and all I did to it was a valve job, crank grind and replace all the bottom end bearings and seals... no cam work, rocker work, pumps,valve stemps, head mill, hell I even used the old pistons,rings and gudgeons without even looking at measuring them (althoughprior to work starting they came up within spec on a compression test).

why is it being sold? How much is it being sold for? Why does it come with oversized brakes as spares?


Based on only the info youve given me sight unseen $750, $1000 tops
registered(6 months)$1500

given the oportunity to have a good look at it and scope the whole thing out (take about 4 hours to do a decent job), I might go as high as $2500(registerd 9 months) but not likely.

If my mothers sewing machine ran as smoothly as the best rover engine Ive ever seen, she'd use it to churn butter. (she works with seamstresses for fun in her spare time. Why? I have no idea)

HMMMM well fellas, i would love to own a fixer upper but not a nightmare and money pit with no final outcome, i have been waiting for a response to that very question about if it lived on a beach.

Gday Mark...

My brothers S3 is on ebay. It's a good honest old thing. Bad pics but, it has never been a beach truck, maybe once a year he would go to Moreton. He use to use it to get to work as a painter. If I didnt buy the missus my aunties Daewoo espero I would have taken it off his hands.He has owned it for about 20 years or so and looked after it well. It's a deisel and comes with a ute and hardtop and he bought new tyres for it about 3 years ago.Anyway, if any one wants more details let me know and I can pass on the details or number.

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Land-Rover_W0...QQcmdZViewItem


Cheers

Paul

Originally Posted by OLR-067

Gday Mark...

My brothers S3 is on ebay. It's a good honest old thing. Bad pics but, it has never been a beach truck, maybe once a year he would go to Moreton. He use to use it to get to work as a painter. If I didnt buy the missus my aunties Daewoo espero I would have taken it off his hands.He has owned it for about 20 years or so and looked after it well. It's a deisel and comes with a ute and hardtop and he bought new tyres for it about 3 years ago.Anyway, if any one wants more details let me know and I can pass on the details or number.

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Land-Rover_W0...QQcmdZViewItem


Cheers

Paul

That looks heaps better and its allready got mexican rego id be lookin at that one mark as like paul said its a good truck and hes had it long enough to know all the probs and probably has fixed em it would be my choise over the swb goodluck

cheers

chris

Ok i got a response to the beach driving question, hmmmm is it a big porky what do you think

The vehicle has obviously done some beach work but the owner is a keen river fisherman and since I have known him(about eight years) I don't think the landy has been on the beach, but mainly used to tow his tinney down to the river boat ramp about 1k from his house.