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I thought I might make a build thread for my 1976 Range Rover Classic. I've owned it for about 4 months now, work has been super busy so have only done a few quick trails and drives to work out what works and what doesn't.
The previous owner pretty much did everything big but it is what I would do to a Classic. It's a purists nightmare, it has a 300tdi from a Disco 1 with about 160,000km on it, R380 gearbox and a LT230 from a Defender. It has aircon, intermittent wipers, Balmoral green paint, modified ARB front bar, mixture of year trim/carpet. Wolf rims and cheap Chinese mud terrains. Body and frame are fairly clean. Swivel hubs and oil pan are marking their territory, there is drive line vibration above 80kph. Springs are way to hard, which makes it good to drive on road as it doesn't have sway bars but not good on dirt. I plan on fixing up the interior, new tyres, new coils and shocks, 23/24 spline axles front and rear and then drive it around Australia. This thing is just fun to drive.
These are some photos as I bought it.
I also found out my grandpa has owned 3 Land Rovers, a Series 2or2a 109(Grandpa said this was the most unreliable car he had ever owned), a Suffix A Range Rover in Davos white and a Range Rover Suffix D in Bahama Gold. Below are some photos we found of the the Suffix A on Fraser Island and Double Island Point, Queensland(1972-1973), Mum cant find anymore photos of the other Land Rovers.
Look at all the landys!
The previous owner pretty much did everything big but it is what I would do to a Classic. It's a purists nightmare, it has a 300tdi from a Disco 1 with about 160,000km on it, R380 gearbox and a LT230 from a Defender. It has aircon, intermittent wipers, Balmoral green paint, modified ARB front bar, mixture of year trim/carpet. Wolf rims and cheap Chinese mud terrains. Body and frame are fairly clean. Swivel hubs and oil pan are marking their territory, there is drive line vibration above 80kph. Springs are way to hard, which makes it good to drive on road as it doesn't have sway bars but not good on dirt. I plan on fixing up the interior, new tyres, new coils and shocks, 23/24 spline axles front and rear and then drive it around Australia. This thing is just fun to drive.
These are some photos as I bought it.
I also found out my grandpa has owned 3 Land Rovers, a Series 2or2a 109(Grandpa said this was the most unreliable car he had ever owned), a Suffix A Range Rover in Davos white and a Range Rover Suffix D in Bahama Gold. Below are some photos we found of the the Suffix A on Fraser Island and Double Island Point, Queensland(1972-1973), Mum cant find anymore photos of the other Land Rovers.
Look at all the landys!
