The thing has been sitting for 2 years and posibly mine in the next few weeks.

I really want to bastardise this thing, use it on the beach and as a shooting rig. What are the cheap/ simple things you can do to a rangie to make them less of a hassle to run, more practical to use, etc.

There must be a few mods that you have done to your rangie that you like, what are they?

I want to spend as little as possible on this thing. (I am pretty good with a mig and know how to aim a grinder if you know what I mean)

thanks.

Tom.

Sell it and get an English and spelling tutor.:flipoff2:

take the engine and wiring harness out and replace it with toyota stuff. then take the axles out and replace them with toyota axles. then when you figure out what a PITA that will be, part it out and buy a toyota frame, transfer case, and transmission to go with the rest of your toyota stuff.

Rip out the back seat and take your girl to the beach. Save on hotel costs for shagging.

Could cost you in CS later though.

:flipoff2:

Sell it and get an English and spelling tutor.:flipoff2:

I'll think about it:p

take the engine and wiring harness out and replace it with toyota stuff. then take the axles out and replace them with toyota axles. then when you figure out what a PITA that will be, part it out and buy a toyota frame, transfer case, and transmission to go with the rest of your toyota stuff.

I know it's an unreliable POS, but it's free and I already have a toyota.


Rip out the back seat and take your girl to the beach. Save on hotel costs for shagging.

Could cost you in CS later though.

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so your saying I should take the back seat to the beach?:flipoff2:

i think we all may just need a :smokin:

I stopped by the rangie today and hooked it up to my work van with some jumper leads, All the power windows, mirrors and lights work:D, but the van's battery didn't have enough grunt to turn the rangie's engine over.

I might have been better hooking it up to my watch battery:shaking:

I'll go back tomorrow night in the cruiser and have another go.

until then I'm going to have a few:smokin:

might be geeting a Rangie for free

You overpaid.

probably should come with beer for hauling it off your friends property.

hooked it up to my work van :
what do you do?

what do you do?

locksmith.

the van's battery didn't have enough grunt to turn the rangie's engine over.
Really? You can usually turn an RV8 over with a half-dead calculator battery. Did the solenoid click?

it did.

what happened exactly, was when the work van was hooked up to it, the first 3 or 4 times I turned the ignition switch, it made a fast clicking sound then nothing.

tonight when I had it hooked up to the cruiser it only made one click each time I turned the switch.

so, i dunno whats wrong with it, I'm not schooled up on rangies at all. If you guys can offer any help then sweet, otherwise I'll have to find a rangie expert here in sydney and pick their brain.

The fast clicking is the solenoid engaging, then as it makes contact the starter drags the battery voltage down so the solenoid lets go, then the battery recovers and it engages again, etc, etc.

One click suggests it is engaging but can't turn the starter, either your jumpleads are lame as hell or something's seized. Can you turn the engine by hand / with a socket on the crank nose nut?

Free Land Rovers are much like free dogs.

They tend to get very expensive very quickly.

[QUOTE=junior80;783597so your saying I should take the back seat to the beach?:flipoff2:[/QUOTE]


Probably should take a door too...if it gets hot you can roll the window down.:flipoff2:

The fast clicking is the solenoid engaging, then as it makes contact the starter drags the battery voltage down so the solenoid lets go, then the battery recovers and it engages again, etc, etc.

One click suggests it is engaging but can't turn the starter, either your jumpleads are lame as hell or something's seized. Can you turn the engine by hand / with a socket on the crank nose nut?

I'll head up this arvo after work and try turning it over by hand. If the thing doesn't turn, is the engine most likely siezed and can't be fixed or is there something else I can do?

Try holding it closer to the monitor

Try holding it closer to the monitor

eh? :confused: