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range rover gear in a series 2a

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MuddyMike:

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 You would lose your tax exempt status if you were to shorten or lengthen it in any way as this is moding the chassis

regard
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Again I shortened mine in two places to make the RR chassis take the 88inch Lightweight body and the inspector had no issues with that. Incidentally I would not condone simply welding coin sprung suspension mounts onto a leaf sprung chassis. Simply because the leaf chassis is designed to spread the load over two points per spring, and is not designed to take the load on one point per spring as is the case with coils. That plan sound like a recipe for disaster to me without a lot of strengthening.

Mike

fire boy si:
i'll agree to disagree with that comment dude if you want coil springs then that fine its easyer to chop a rangie chassis up then to put the parts on a series chassis to take coils etc  :)

adrian connor:
with my shorty i do not ever plan on getting it registerd it will be a fun toy and i dont care about comfort in my short and it has a rear salsbury diff and housing....
the reason i want the range rover suspention gear in a landy is for the clearence and also because it would be fun to do...and i plan on puting a ford 302 with a t-18 or t-19 toploader behind it atached to a landy transfer case......and it is never going to get registerd.............

MattMatt:
Just to add my 2p

Will the RR axles etc give you more clearance?

I have a designa chassis - 88 inch coil sprung with RR axles, Britpart coil springs and standard shocks.  I don't think I've got any more clearance or much more articulation than my mates original series with good parabolics.  Infact, he p**ses all over me on some RTV trial sections (yea ok - it's probalby my crap driving as well)

Before you carry out all that work, go and find someone who has a good series and really compare it with what you want.  Unless you fit extended shocks, dislocation cones etc etc I doubt you'll get much/alot more than they have.

Having said all that - mine was and is good fun as I spend more hours than I care to think about fiddling about.

screwy:

--- Quote from: "adrian connor" ---with my shorty i do not ever plan on getting it registerd it will be a fun toy and i dont care about comfort in my short and it has a rear salsbury diff and housing....
the reason i want the range rover suspention gear in a landy is for the clearence and also because it would be fun to do...and i plan on puting a ford 302 with a t-18 or t-19 toploader behind it atached to a landy transfer case......and it is never going to get registerd.............
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Okay then, that's fair play BUT the consensus would still be that for you it would be far easier to either scratch build or alter a rangie or coiler chassis to suit, both of which have srping mounts and are designed for the kinds of axles and suspension you want to use. To purposefully  go the route of hacking a series spring chassis about to make the vehicle you want seems daft, hard work, for poorer results.:?

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