Landy Tales
I'm new to the Landy community. Having never owned one till about 4-5 months ago, I bought an old
beat up 88" without knowing the first thing about them (I asked for a test drive and it made me grin so
I had to have it)....
Here's how I transported it home: I built a
ramp out of pallets, logs, sides off tree
trunks and bits of scaffold board then drove
it onto the back
I pretty soon learned that I'd bought a very
sorry machine. Both dumbirons rotted out
along with a couple of small patches of the
chassis elsewhere. No problem, out with
the angle grinder and welder, cut, patch
and jig in new dumbirons, then find a re-
placement front axle complete due to the
swivels being completely shot and full of
water...
Then it was off for the MOT, which was re-
ally worrying as I drove to the station,
clouds and clouds of white smoke followed
me (2.25 diesel). Luckily by the time I got to my test appointment the engine had warmed enough to
minimise the smoke, so it passed the visual test easy enough and only got a couple of minor advi-
sories...
I collected a cheap truckcab, as it was the colder months of the year and started trundling around in it
(this is my daily driver) at a massively high 35-40mph which was fine around town but gave me a hard
time pulling out of busy junctions (2.25d remember) and was hard work for any journey over 10-15
miles.
I did a little research for an engine with a bit more "go" to it, looked at fitting the Perkins Prima (rocking
horse droppings) then found a few links to the 200Tdi conversions, so i scoured eBay for a dead Dis-
covery and bought one nice and cheap. An hour after I got it home I started stripping the engine and re-
quired parts out. A couple of hours later the engine was sat on my trolley waiting for the pressure
washer.
It sat on that trolley for a couple of weeks whilst I worked up the mindset to start (remember it's my daily
driver). When I eventually started I had decided to get my finger out and get the job done, so the Landy
got parked outside the garage and the front stripped out, chassis and bellhousing cleaned and painted.
I then dropped the new engine in with minimal hassle, fabricated my own turbo/exhaust flange and
downpipe, then set to mounting the rad' and intercooler along with building assorted plumbing out of
scrap materials.
Anyway, without going into all the finer details of the transplant, I spent 3.5 days from start to finish
(back on the road) with just an exhaust to build which got completed about 5 days later after I had rested
from silly working hours.
Since then I've fitted 3.54 diffs and parabolics on the rear (fronts still to do), been to south Wales in it,
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