Re: SER1 OT: Remanufactured Landys

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Dear Bunty and Ian

Don't get me wrong - I love 80" Landys - they are so ridiculously small with
you, a mate and an esky the things full.  They're great.  You will notice
that I only own 80" Land Rovers and a Range Rover, however in my humble
opinion, for travelling and usability the suffix d gearbox model Land Rovers
were the most reliable, all the series 1's have too small layshaft bearings
and the layshaft would fracture at the circlip groove till the suffix d.
Rover got the series III ratios wrong and the syncromesh on the 1st and 2nd
gear made the box nice to drive but once again unreliable.

Outside the UK and Europe reliability is the name of the game.  People die
on the walk out from a stranded broken down vehicle in many places on this
planet.  (Remember the guys in the Great Sandy Dessert this year)
Semi-floating axles are another reliability flaw.  They didn't solve these
problems till well after the Series 1 and all British Leyland produced were
just poor quality, expensive, obsolete vehicles that did more damage to the
Land Rover name than anything before or since.

Just my opinion.  Although I would still buy a defender in preference to
anything Japanese although they are still too expensive in comparison to the
competition..

Cheers
Diana
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Stuart" <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: <series1@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 12:02 AM
Subject: Re: SER1 OT: Remanufactured Landys


Eighty Inch wrote:
> The best Land Rovers ever made were the late series 2a suffix d gearbox
> models with the headlamps in the mudguards (wings/fenders, some people
> called them Series II b)  before British Leyland when they lost their
> morals.
Have to disagree here....

Give me an 80" any time.... maybe modded to use a Series III layshaft
(all-syncro) - but the lively driving is just sooo much better than a
Series II or III....


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