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[Maltelec]

I've bought (yet) another land rover

 

 

Its a 109 Forward Control with 110 FC axles on it. Came without an engine, brakes, clutch, most of the body work (but I got the truck cab) etc.

 

Thinking I wanted to do something different I went to the scrap yard and found this:

 

 

So this last weekend me and a few friends glued it into the chassis:

 

 

I've no idea when it'll be finnished but its going to be a fun toy!

 

For thoes of you who can't spot the engine, its a Cummins 6B 5.9 litre. The gearbox is a Spicer 5-speed including a built-in overdrive. Max 2800 rpm and around 500 ft lb of torque.

 

See all the pictures here

[Richard]

That all looks very familiar

[Milford Cubicle]

What a horror! (In a good way)

[bigstraight6]

Nice! great engines those Cummins 'B' lumps, out of a Leyland/DAF 45 series I'd wager, you must obtain a Cummins grille badge when its finished

[mk2_craig]

GR8 WORK!! Those B-series motors are found in a frighteningly wide range of commercial stuff, notably most 25-45 seat British built buses of the 1990s. However - and correct me if I'm talking codshite here - they were the diesel option in Dodge Ram trucks... the ones where the petrol lump was the Viper V10

[Split_Pin]

Love these old Cummins! Nice conversion.Does this version have the multi-valve cylinder head like the L and NTE series? (Cant remember whether it was 3 or 4 valves per cyl - gsve it a lovely soind though - GR8 4 VERTICAL ZORST STAX!)

[Maltelec]

This engine is the same as used in the Dodge shit. Err I mean RAM. They use the Turbo version.

 

This perticular engine is out of a Leyland Roadrunner.

 

It is now all in place. I need an air over hydraulic brake servo is anyone has one.

 

I also have a radiator out of an International Harvester B100 Drott

 

 

I've shortened a truck silencer and made a rain keeper outer thingy:

 

 

 

Its cummin along.

 

Geddit?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I've got a dodge RAM turbocharger on my desk at work. Its fookin massive and cost 2 grand over the parts counter at Marshalls!

[mk2_craig]

A while back I managed to procure (got given) a recon turbo for a Ford 360 engine - think Cargo. It's a Garrett T35 and bizarrely is common to the early model Escort Cosworth. Not 2 grand's worth though

[Maltelec]

I've got a dodge RAM turbocharger on my desk at work

That'd fit straight on my engine. I'll be sticking as NA though. Simpler the better with this thing, and I don't want any turbo lag.

[garethj]

Can't think why anyone hasn't done it before are you going to gear it up, or are you planning on towing reeeeally heavy loads up incredibly steep inclines at 25mph?

[Maltelec]

are you going to gear it up

Most deffinetly. I calculated that at 1200 rpm - peak torque, in 4th gear it'd do 25mph. In top gear it'd do around 33mph at a rough guess (thats guessing it has a 0.725:1 overdrive ratio).So, deffinetly gearing it up. I recon 60mph @ 1200 rpm will be just right.The good part is 1st gear is bottom right, so its not one you would commonly use. This is good as it is a super low ratio. So using the box as a standard 4 + reverse (ignoring the real 1st gear) its just the same as a land rover box

[Maltelec]

New video of the day: Starting the engine

[Rocket88]

Oh dear.......this is all going to end in tears.............vastly overpowered Land Rovers are always a good idea..........

[Maltelec]

Heres a few updates (all into one post)

 

Lots of piccies!!!!!!!

 

Videos at the bottom.

 

After towing the frog back to my workshop, we set off removing all the parts of the engine which are not required. This tidied the engine up very nice as it was quite a mess of wires and pipes before. Amanda was set off with painting the body work in a lovely green Frog colour. After looking at the engine we had to take the sump off as the engine had been dropped by the scrap man on the sump. We realised that we could put the sump on backwards with a slight modification to the oil pickup pipe which would give us at least 6" more clearance on the front bottom of the engine.

 

Amanda washing the truck cab ready for painting.

 

 

Me, John and BobToo looking at the engine taking all the parts off which are not needed.

 

Phil and BobToo watching John remove all the sump bolts.

 

Engine being lifted to allow us to empty the sump and gearbox of oil.

 

Steve Graham and friend turned up in his Series-1.

 

A view of the 6-pot Diesel from under the engine.

 

The old oil pickup pipe.

 

The new oil pickup pipe.

 

The sump being cleaned.

 

We've had a good day:

 

The slave labour were turfed out of bed.

 

We quickly dropped the engine in. It took about 2 seconds to go from 4 foot high to 18" high. It somehow missed everything and landed on the chassis rails and all 4 engine mounts. Its a good thing I insisted people kept out the way of it too.

 

The rear bellhousing engine mount now welded into place.

 

The engine after recovering it from the top of the axle.

 

Even Amanda was rolling around on the floor painting the chassis.

 

The front engine mount tacked into place before welding onto the chassis.

 

More of yesterdays work:

 

Engine now properly mounted onto the chassis and the gear lever adjusted to go round the inverted exhaust pipe.

 

Even with the minimal space above the front axle to the engine, the sump is still very high up off the ground.

 

Very slight adjustment on the passenger side for the seat box to go around. The gear lever is in the perfect position so no modifying required at all :banana

 

Both the air inlet and the exhaust outlets are in the right places. I just need to find the pipes to make the exhaust pipe and air filter now.

 

After a trawl round the scrap yard I found an exhaust pipe the correct diameter, but it was 1' too long so I shortened it down.

 

As everyone knows, its not a Series-2 without the correct gear knob

 

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a228/Maltelec/My%20Land%20Rovers/Frog/DSCF2237.jpg

 

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a228/Maltelec/My%20Land%20Rovers/Frog/DSCF2236.jpg

 

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a228/Maltelec/My%20Land%20Rovers/Frog/DSCF2235.jpg

 

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a228/Maltelec/My%20Land%20Rovers/Frog/DSCF2234.jpg

 

I am going to be changing the rear crossmember for a large piece of C section girder. Not that I don't trust Das's one for holding together, but I would like something far more substantial than the standard rear crossmember.

 

I had the day off today (unexpectidly) so I spent the entire day working on Le Frog:

 

Finally, I have found a use for my 32-tonne bottle jack.

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a228/Maltelec/My%20Land%20Rovers/Frog/DSCF2261.jpg

 

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a228/Maltelec/My%20Land%20Rovers/Frog/DSCF2262.jpg

 

Mmmmmm, shiny

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a228/Maltelec/My%20Land%20Rovers/Frog/DSCF2263.jpg

 

Best not let Dopey see this

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a228/Maltelec/My%20Land%20Rovers/Frog/DSCF2264.jpg

 

After adding the shiny bits, I went on to rip off the rear spring hangers which Das had quickly attached to get the thing rolling. Then I had to make new parts to weld new outriggers on so I could then attach the spring hanger:

 

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a228/Maltelec/My%20Land%20Rovers/Frog/DSCF2265.jpg

 

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a228/Maltelec/My%20Land%20Rovers/Frog/DSCF2266.jpg

 

And of course, more red oxide paint:

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a228/Maltelec/My%20Land%20Rovers/Frog/DSCF2267.jpg

 

And just to prove that its the rear axles which hold vehicles to the road:

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a228/Maltelec/My%20Land%20Rovers/Frog/DSCF2269.jpg

 

Todays pictures:

 

FC's make excellany portable workshops

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a228/Maltelec/My%20Land%20Rovers/Frog/DSCF2270.jpg

 

Of course, 1/2 way though welding it started to rain

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a228/Maltelec/My%20Land%20Rovers/Frog/DSCF2271.jpg

 

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a228/Maltelec/My%20Land%20Rovers/Frog/DSCF2272.jpg

 

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I have finally finnished welding the new rear spring hangers on. I've still got to sort out the front spring bushes and U bolts, and that should be the suspension side all finnished.

 

The bulkhead is next....

 

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a228/Maltelec/My%20Land%20Rovers/Frog/DSCF2490.jpg

 

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a228/Maltelec/My%20Land%20Rovers/Frog/DSCF2491.jpg

 

Can anyone guess the land rover parts carefullt bodged onto here?

 

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a228/Maltelec/My%20Land%20Rovers/Frog/DSCF2494.jpg

 

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a228/Maltelec/My%20Land%20Rovers/Frog/DSCF2495.jpg

 

Fanbelt:

 

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a228/Maltelec/My%20Land%20Rovers/Frog/DSCF2496.jpg

 

 

 

 

Video of the engine running

[Richard]

One of your assistants looks familiar somehow.

[Maltelec]

One of your assistants looks familiar somehow.

Yes, I had him on lease for a day from the SAS (Scottish Association of Slave-labour).

[bones96]

ope all goes well if i was doing that it would all end in tears lol