County V8 Manual to Auto Conversion

**rovercare** · 20th October 2007, 10:05 PM

Originally Posted by sclarke

Metal work is the easy part.....
Tail shafts are not bad, worse case, i'll get new ones made... $200 each...

If its using the 230 as std the Handbrake should be fine... the Tranny length is the hard part i guess as the LT230 will have to be moved back..

Clarkie

Pretty sure it'll be in the right posi. they only ****ed with lenths when they went to the tdi's

**Blknight.aus** · 20th October 2007, 10:33 PM

Originally Posted by rovercare

Pretty sure it'll be in the right posi. they only ****ed with lenths when they went to the tdi's

doesnt the auto have a longer snout on it than the 85?

**p38arover** · 20th October 2007, 11:33 PM

Don't forget that George130 has an auto in his 130 Defender so might be able to send some pics.

**rovercare** · 20th October 2007, 11:36 PM

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

doesnt the auto have a longer snout on it than the 85?

Mmmm, now you've planted a seed of doubt, I've only ever wrecked 1 RR with an LT85, had a V8 110 county driveline, but that was one of my first RR wrecks, nearly 6 years ago

Pretty sure the lt 230 was still fitted to the original mountin holes, different mount one side obviously as it originally had an LT95, but nothing untowards??

Then again it was a long time ago and ALOT of RR's ago

**muddydigger** · 21st October 2007, 06:49 AM

I saw a County converted not so long ago, the bloke did a really nice job of it too. Id be interested in this. If you go ahead will you put a build diary on here so we can see how you did it? I think this would be an interesting build diary.

**sclarke** · 21st October 2007, 07:16 AM

if i do it, i'll document it...

i'll do some measurements tonight with the county and the V8 Disco my wife drives that we are selling...

**Andrewpv01** · 21st October 2007, 07:29 AM

Brindo 75 on here has done one already. Send him a PM and he will give you the heads up.

Andrew

**sclarke** · 21st October 2007, 07:15 PM

Originally Posted by Andrewpv01

Brindo 75 on here has done one already. Send him a PM and he will give you the heads up.

Andrew

Will do....

Ohh i bought it... and Sold the V8 Disco....

The wife won the Battle.....

**DeeJay** · 21st October 2007, 08:32 PM

Some professional mob here in Melb has done one at least, as a bloke was around at our place last year buying something we sold on ebay, saw my County and told me how he just sold his which was converted to Auto. We talked a bit about the conversion.
If I told you what he sold it for

you may think I am saying its silly doing it. I'm not, but don't expect to add to the Countys value by converting. I reckon if I did mine to auto we could sell the Disco and just have the one 4wd. The missus can drive the County, she used to have a manual Rangie, but whinges about the clutch. Fair enough too.

**sclarke** · 21st October 2007, 08:45 PM

Originally Posted by DeeJay

Some professional mob here in Melb has done one at least, as a bloke was around at our place last year buying something we sold on ebay, saw my County and told me how he just sold his which was converted to Auto. We talked a bit about the conversion.
If I told you what he sold it for

you may think I am saying its silly doing it. I'm not, but don't expect to add to the Countys value by converting. I reckon if I did mine to auto we could sell the Disco and just have the one 4wd. The missus can drive the County, she used to have a manual Rangie, but whinges about the clutch. Fair enough too.

Its not about adding Value, its about making it what my Wife wants.... no differnet to putting lockers in... you do it for reasons only you know

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