Land Rover Owners and their Landies
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Rover Series 3 StuckThe picture attached has a very simple story
with a lesson. I did walk the obstacle prior to driving over it, While driving I decided
to
change "tracks" as the ruts looked a bit deep. What I found out later is that
the muddy part was in fact a cement bridge which was covered in mud. As
I moved out of the rut I drove off the side of the bridge. Recovery required two vehicles.
One to keep me from falling over sideways & one to winch me out.
Sean Steyn, Johannesburg, Gauteng
Land Rover Defender Working in Kwa-Zulu Natal
My
LR next to the wheel marks left by the truck that I had pulled out the night before. The
truck was a Merc 2636 with a triaxle cane trailer with 20 tons of sugar cane on it. It was
my first time to pull such a weight and I am happy to say that I have done it again! My LR and trailer near Kosi.
This trailer fall over took place
close to Cwaka School, North of Empangeni. I stopped to engage diff lock in the mud but
didn't quite come to a halt and the entire combination slid into a donga at the side of
the track and over the trailer went. Fortunately the School is in the background (the
cream & brown building) and I ran down there and the principal sent a class full of
kids up to offload the trailer and push it back onto it's wheels.
David Coonan, Hillcrest, Kwazulu
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Range Rover Pushing the Limits
Andy Grafton, Cape Town
Land Rover Discovery Day to Day Travels
Some day to
day roads that I traverse in the Discovery - Spikes Joubert, White
River
Land Rover Series 2 1969 Rebuild
I
am sending photos of my SII (1969 model as far as I know) that I
am currently rebuilding. It uses to be a military vehicle but I
stripped it down to the bone and I'm starting over from scratch.
It use to have a 2.25 petrol engine but after I bought it, I blew
the head gasket, opened it up, only to find that the cylinder head
and engine block was cracked. So I am thinking of changing it to a
2.25 diesel - Corne Steyn, CenturionDiscovery in North
Africa Deserts
We are a bunch of Brit expats, (
although, I am in the process of marrying a south African and
moving to Mpumalanga.) who spend the winter weekends out and
about in the desert. A few of the guys have just returned from a
7 day trip crossing the " rub al khali " or empty
quarter, a huge expanse of desert only punctuated by the odd oil
well and occasional fuel dump for the supply vehicles, ( they
sell you fuel for 2 rand a litre, which is expensive for out
here. There are old turkish forts, mastadon bones, meteorite
craters and much more to explore, but a GPS, good tyres and sand
ladders and a bit of experience are essential and of course one
of solihuls finest! Just to really cheese you off you can pick
up brand new 2 door disco's with a/c for 130 000 rand ( approx )
- Steve Doyle, North Africa |
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Land Rover Engines Working in Africa
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Mozambique |
Hennie Rautenbach,
Zambia |
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| Mike Ferguson took this
pic of a generator mounted on the back of a D110 PUP. It has
a hole cut in the floor of a TDI, and is running the hospital
geberator. |
As I drove onto the
small pontoon the guys in a longboat next to the pontoon shouted
"Yeah Land Rover". I gave them the thumbs up and they
smiled and shouted, "our Land Rover" and pointed to the
inboard engine of the longboat. It was a 2.25 Land Rover engine.
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Land Rover Defender Crash Wreck
Its My old
Landy that Hit oil on the road from Richmond a few weeks ago and
walked away from. Im happy to say that the Landrover insurance (Wescol)
paid out , There service was excellent (Mrs Moolman,Durban) and I
am now the proud owner of a TD5. WITH SEAT BELTS - Kevin, D110,
Kwa-Zulu Natal.
Land Rover Series 1 109 in Good Condition
I
have recently acquired a 109" Series 1 LWB Pick Up. It's
bodywork is in fairly
good condition with a galvanised firewall. It has been
"upgraded" with a
Salisbury rear axle and a Series 2 gearbox. - Marek,
Pietermaritzburg.Series 1 and Range Rover
in Sutherland Snow
Snow
in Africa, Yeah right!!! Snow falls in the high lying areas as well as
cold places like Sutherland, provide ample fun for Land Rover owners.
These pics are courtesy of Piet Fourie.
Series 2A V6 SWB in Sand
Chris
Mynhardt has a 3.0 Essex V6 in this short wheel base, he writes "What
a transformation this Land Rover
underwent. I could then pull a LR offroad trailer through the thick sand
in Mozambique and maintain a cruising speed of around 100 kph with an
fuel consumption of 6.5 km to the litre. The engine characteristics
seems to suit the SWB very well and not enough power or torque is
available to break anything on the series SWB with sensible driving."
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