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your thoughts please
bogie:
Hi mate,i think its very tidy.Look after it and it will last you for EVER! Compare it with all the other crap on the market ,it aint that bad. £200 back every year,easy mots,cheaper insurance. Chuck a 200 in,slap some disks on it,PERFECT MOTOR! Done it twice so know what im on about. GO FOR IT!
muddyjames:
--- Quote from: bogie on October 24, 2009, 19:09:44 --- Done it twice so know what im on about. GO FOR IT!
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You may regret saying that! :lol:
I have all the kit for a veg oil conversion too which I would like to do to a 200tdi engine in a s3! Would a 200td engine be better for the drive train? thats a whole new thread though :lol:
Is there anything else to look out for with a new chasis and bulkhead? It is a long time since I was in the series landy game so gone a bit rusty. Excuse the pun! And anyway of checking the chassis is new without seeing photos of it all being done. I doubt ohnCraddocks will have done the change. Seriously low miles on it too. I am quiet tempted!
bogie:
wouldnt waste the time fitting a kit for veg oil,75% veg 25% diesel or petrel and your away!
muddyjames:
got a reply from JohnCraddocks
they said
--- Quote ---hi there is no rust at all
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to which I replied,
--- Quote ---Thanks for the reply. I have asked around on a few land rover forums and everyone bar 1 person has said it is well over priced. Appologies. If you get any other series 3 tax exempt in, in good condition for about £1500 which is my budget really, willing to go a bit more for the right one please let me know.
My friends advised me that your one for 3k should be on a galv' chassis so if it has been saved on money there, what else has been saved money on.
I am still tempted by yours. Can you add any further information or are you open to offers?
Regards
James
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To which they said
--- Quote ---Hi,
We have been land rover specialists for many years, a galv chassis is not a land rover item. This vehicle is priced for a good example of a series 3 in standard spec.
Regards
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A galv item is not land rover? Hmm well, funny how galv' chassis get fitted then in restoration projects! And I am guessing no to offers! lol I am VERY close to this weekend I have just reliased. I could go and look!
Saffy:
--- Quote from: muddyjames on October 29, 2009, 20:26:20 ---
A galv item is not land rover? Hmm well, funny how galv' chassis get fitted then in restoration projects
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They get fitted in rebuild projects and sourced from third parties companies. Restoration implies factory specification which wouldn't involve a galv chassis because AFAIK landrover do not supply galv chassis as an option and therefore no LR part number for a galv chassis. I think that was what craddocks was saying, galv chassis is not a LR item.
Personal opinion, for the price it's finish is really not that good, looks like a tart up. Funny how a quick blat of nato paint can make even a pig pleasant to the eye. Look where the rear tow hitch is removed... Look at in inside of the roof panels... dash, pedals...Remember Craddock's have an endless stock of items like gear knobs, lamp lens, wheel sets, new number plate, splash of paint to even things out ...so 500 quid tart up (at most) of a fairly good base vehicle? Recent bulkhead/chassis could mean *anything*. The vehicle is 1971, a replacement chassis in the 1990's could be termed recent. So it would be important to know how old/miles that "recent" really means. For that money I'd want bulkhead and chassis to be as nearly as fresh as the paint and Craddocks bolt on shiny bits.
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