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Today's progress Besides forgetting the bolts I needed at home and having so scrounge up bolts and washers to bring the motor and tranny together until I remember the right ones, it was a successful day and everything went well. Still have to mount the slave cylinder and build a bracket for...

Don't know Timm or his work but he's been at this Land Rover stuff a lot longer than I have. I'm sure it's fine...Just looks a little crude. I was hoping to have the engine/tranny/transfer case together tomorrow but as it usually goes Mercedes sent me the wrong clutch yoke today so it'll have...

With all due respect, TeriAnn, did you cut off the end of the clutch fork and weld the slave pin to it? Maybe I'm not seeing that photo right.

Latest progress Well, I got the Mercedes/NP435 adapter all done and on the transmission. Waiting on a second clutch yoke so I can extend one and finalize the clutch release. I've already got a slave cylinder that will bolt directly to the side of the tranny. Nice and tight and won't take up any...

I didn't use Keith's axles as he only does them for coil-sprung trucks. I used axles from this guy: http://seriestrek.com/axles.html :) Yes, I have Toyota e-lockers with a less common 4:56 ratio. It's been in for a few years and thousands of miles now and has been perfect. I'm building a...

The e-locker was an option on Tacomas, 4-Runners, etc and came in the rear only. What you'll need is two rear carriers from these trucks and install one in each end of yours. (There was also a high-pinion front e-locker in some Land Cruisers, but I don't feel that's the best way to go...many...

If you're going to lock that truck, you're much better off to do a Toyota conversion. With new gears, lockers and at least new rear shafts you're going to be into it for $2000 or better. For the same $450 each you'll pay for the gears you can buy used Toyota e-locker differentials and forgo...

Hahaha. He should have saved a few dollars on that happy hardware and spent it where it counts.

Don't get too carried away. I'm worried the 4:10s will be a little tall for me. I think the original 4:70 gears will be just about right with a 5cyl turbo and an overdrive. jim

That should get me to around 2650 at 70mph...Just about what I'm hoping for. I'm still a little nervous about gearing and am putting a lot of faith in the extra 45hp this engine has. Worst-case scenario I pull the 4:56 diffs out of the 88", put them in the 109 and re-gear these to 4:88 and put...

That's Timm Cooper's adapter, right? Funny they look so similar, but I guess they would. This truck is getting Toyota e-locker centers with 4:10 gears. I'm hoping they're not too tall. My 88" has 4:56 Toyota diffs and an overdrive, but it's only about 80hp. This motor is 125hp so I think...

Spent that last couple of nights rebuilding the transmission for the 109. It's a Ford NP435 with a 6.68:1 first gear. It now has a Pangolin4x4 main shaft to mate to the Series transfer case as well as the adapter plate to bolt the two together. Next it's on to the Ashcroft high-ratio...

Sorry about the news. Pretty much what I expected you'd find. From your previous post: With a bad frame and bulkhead you'll spend $5k in a heartbeat just getting it safe for the road. It just gets worse from there. If a stockish 88" is what you're looking for, save up the bread and come down...

Couldn't be. Those would be worn out if that were true.

You mentioned a drivetrain conversion and a budget in the same paragraph. :) Get it home, get it cleaned up, get it running and see what you've got before you get too ambitious. jim

Sorry, Aaron, I'm not trying to offend. I just don't think it it's current configuration you'll see too many Range Rovers on the road much past 15 or 20 years. With questionable engine management and electronic controls in general, a tendency toward rusting and so much plastic, these things...

With a bad frame and bulkhead you'll spend $5k in a heartbeat just getting it safe for the road. It just gets worse from there. If a stockish 88" is what you're looking for, save up the bread and come down below and find one with a new, or at least decent frame. For $7k-$10k you can usually...

Poor you...stuck with a 130! You're right though. Off the shelf a RRC is pretty tough to beat. They improved on horsepower as the years went by. If mine hadn't become so unreliable and rusty I'd still be driving it. When they're gone, they're gone, and not a platform to tear down to the...

Hi Jonathan. I've been playing with Series axles for a whiile and thought I'd post this from another board: I have done a lot of research on making a stronger replacement 10-spline axle that would drop in without changing anything else. I’ve spent a bit of money in the past few weeks testing...