Range Rover Classic

The early RRs were built more like the series LRs. The inner wings unbolt from the bulkhead. The sidemembers (which comprises A,B,C pillars , rear wheel tub and sill etc unbolts from the bulkhead and tailgate frame. The floors unbolt. Its a nice design and the metal is quite thick. The Roof unbolts but possibly this is still the case on the 90s models.

Have a look at my shell in bits here forum.retro-rides.org/thread/50390?page=4

Interesting about the liners. My Discovery has them and It had rusted more than the Range Rover has.
Just reading through your thread now. It looks like your range rover might have been the same colour as mine? Cypress Green

Evening All

Todays mischief

Floor. Done!


Other nasty bits.


Done!


Apart from this


And this at the front below the battery tray. That half welded patch isn't my work.


This looked suspicious


Cut out, wire wheel applied and a lick of bilt hamber


This was a patch over the top of rust. pretty easy to re-make though


In place but ran out of time to weld it in. That bilt hamber stuff is supposed to cure for a day before you overpaint it anyway


It didn't all go well though. While I was welding in the footwell the work light I was using tipped onto the steering wheel and melted it

It was in very good condition.

Also smacked my hand using the vice. The bar on it is bent and it span while I was trying to undo it. Lots of swelling, hopefully nothing untoward.

The front RH side isn't far off completion now which leads me to looking at what else needs doing. There's a small bit of welding needed on the RH sill about midway along, same on the LH side. It needs welding to the LH rear wheel tub and LH footwell, although the LH footwell area looks in much better nick than the RH side. Theres also the RH side of the boot floor that needs doing. I think I'm going to have to order more steel.

I think the tailgate might have a leak

Annoyingly the glass has grinding rash in it, along with the Rh rear side glass.

I have most of the bits to give it a service now along with brake line
This was the air filter

And judging by that, I think its long overdue a service

More soon

Good progress, annoying when things like tge steering wheel happen but not the end of the world, I managed to repair several cigarette burns on my centre console almost invisibly using the vinyl repair kits and dyes widely available.

The one thing those older style worklights are good for is the heat. Useful for keeping me warm, warming paint cans and drying it too.

Yeah the floors seem identical to the floors on the disco. In fact the rust is identical! I should be able to fit the same underslung lpg tanks to it that are on the Disco too

The doors will fit, but the outer panels have different profiles for styling purposes.

Range Rover boot floors are longer than the Disco ones also.

If you can, it's worth getting gas tanks that fit in place of the original petrol tank and have a smaller petrol tank up behind the inner wing.
Put an upright doughnut tank in where the spare wheel would be and you've got around 130 litres of usable gas capacity without hanging tanks below the chassis, or losing boot space.

Good Work.



I had underslungs on my 93 3.9. That car did 12mpg on petrol and 9 on gas LOL. If they had put decent engines in those things they'd have been a good car. Couldn't fault the auto transmission, or the handling, driving position and visibility. It was already on its second engine and the car only had 100K on it !

I bet a Lexus engine would be great in one of those.

mine has dual underslung tanks but it really could do with more capacity, they hold around 40 litres which at the 11-12 mpg I get on LPG around town (have seen 14 on a longer run) only gives a range of around 100 miles. One to replace the spare and then strap the spare on the boot floor so it can be removed if the original boot capacity is required seems the best option to me. I'm not sure about a much smaller fuel tank, there have been times when LPG is not available that I have had to drive 100 miles or more on Petrol.

This seems like a good idea. I have the underslung tanks on the Disco and they're 35 or 40 litres each I think, but with lpg you don't get that figure. I think they actually hold around 50 litres which as you say isn't particularly useful. The lpg kit need for the RR is a bit simpler than the disco as it doesn't need a stepper motor due to having no catalytic converter. I need to weigh the cost of putting an lpg kit in against what it'll actually save in fuel. My drive to work is only ten min or so, so normally an lpg kit won't even have time to warm up. So it'll be more for longer journeys, in which case I'll probably need to use the boot floor. The spare wheel tank is a good idea though and I think they're pretty big ( I think 70 or 80 litres). With that set up, I should have a real LPG capacity of between 80 and 100 litres I think. A little bit of research tells me that there are kits you can get which can give you more ignition advance on LPG to which brings back the power normally lost when using LPG. I read somewhere that LPG is around 110 octane rated?

I'm sure it'll happen eventually but the challenge for 2018 will be to get the thing running properly on petrol. So far I've only driven it on and off the trailer and the alternator/water pump belt is squealing due to a seizes/poorly adjusted belt tensioner and I have noticed some play in the power steering pump pulley. And that's before I've even got the thing to go through all its gears.

I don't know whether or not to take off the kit that's on the disco before I sell it as I don't think it adds any value to the car, especially as its not currently working.


That's the next job anyway, to sell that.