Possible? Easy? Don't even think about it?I know there are dedicated Land Rover forums out there, but you lot seldom let me down.The story so far..I bought a LWB Series 2a (with some Series 3 bits) Land Rover pickup off eBay the other week. It was originally a 2.25 petrol, but now has no engine at all. Local garage accepted my offer of 150 quid for a rusty Range Rover they have fitted with an excellent 2.5 Peugeot diesel engine. I know I won't be able to just bolt that to my Series gearbox, so want to know if I can drop in the engine complete with the Range Rover's gearbox?Proper conversion plates to join the Pug engine and Landy gearbox cost an arm and a leg. I suspect I could sell the Rangey one for a fair few quid, so I'm not going to lose, just looking for the easiest solution.Aim is to get a tow vehicle that's reliable and relatively cheap to run.Top speed irrelevant so I'm not too bothered about the gearing.

First thing first. Does it have the heavy-duty salisbury rear axle? It oughtto but you can sometimes never be sure with a landy that may have been a"bitsa". If not, I'd seriously reconsider doing a lot of towing with it.You can drop the complete engine and box in (easier with body off thechassis for a major conversion like that, as you can lower it into place ina one-er) but you then have 3 issues.First, the 'box is longer and the handbrake drum may well foul the smallchassis crossmember behind the gearbox. Not a major problem, just cut it outand re-weld it where you can! (You'll only be moving it rearwards by about 5or 6" max.)Second, the propshafts will need sorting as they'll all be differentlengths, and the handbrake linkage will be different.Thirdly, someone will be along soon to tell you that you need a stage-one v8front axle as it has cv's in it - to allow for the fact that it will now bepermanent 4-wheel drive. Rubbish! It'll work fine with the std front axle,although you may...

Range Rover gearbox into a Series Landy?

Jul 11, 2006 22 Replies

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Willy Eckerslyke 20 years ago

I don't expect that there's a name for what I was thinking of, but I'm learning...

Quite. But it was front seats that had me truly perplexed on that last one. They didn't feel like concrete, but there must have been some hidden in them somewhere!

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Geoff 20 years ago

->Quite. But it was front seats that had me truly perplexed on that last

->one. They didn't feel like concrete, but there must have been some

->hidden in them somewhere!

That would have been the weight of the extraneous fixing bolts that you can't get to with any combination of tools known to man, with of course the exception of the angle grinder.

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Andy Dingley 20 years ago

Ah, that'll be my old one. There was an inch thick CAMAC plate under the driver's footwell.

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