Recent content by 35xj

she’s a driver! got the holes in the tranny tunnel sealed up, built an intake from amazon/exhaust shop. Had my fiancée come help bleed the brakes and clutch. and she runs! never trusted the electrics in these things, so i swapped a set of manual seats i had laying around over, swapped the...

yeah. with the effort involved. a new ashcroft 380 with tall 5th was easily worth it in my head. let me know if you have any questions. i drove mine about 2 miles today!!!!!

Next up is wiring. One of the things I truly suck at! Scouring the internet gave me a few ideas on what I needed to keep from the v8 harness, pondering the minuscule harness on my tdi defender, and the help of a friend who’s gone the swap already, I began. The V8 engine harness is massive...

new rear main seal installed, and brandy new r380! bolted it all up with the 1:4 case. man. that’s a long heavy setup to try to get up over the grill and down into place solo. ended up with the cherry picker and ratchet straps. (including a 3” strap over a shop rafter to the t case). using the...

next up. fuel bits. the 300 uses a block mounted lift pump, the v-8 used an in tank mounted electric fuel pump. the lift pump will not duck fuel through the in tank pump, and the v8 pump provides too much pressure. easy enough. pull the stock pump apparatus and remove the pump replace pump...

Next step. Pedals. Ended up ordering a RHD pedal box from the UK. In my mind, it would just drop right in. And it did not! So.…. Turns out the 2 pedal setup has most of the mounts required to run the 3rd pedal. Requires a bit of fab though. Clutch and brake have to be cut and bent to clear the...

Job 1. Yank the drivetrain out of the 110. The r380 in the 130 died on the trip to sacramento ( we drove from NC through mainland Mexico, over to Baja and up to Sacramento for a month. Lost 5th and reverse in la Paz. Made for a long drive to sac) Ashcroft sent me a new disco r380 with the taller...

information on this swap has been a bit hard to find, so I thought I’d do a bit of a write up as I progress on it. Always wanted a 300/r 380 disco 1. Last year I pulled a great running 300 out of my 130 and dropped in an LS3. I did the work in california and drove the 130 home, leaving the...

most recent project. 98 d1 300 tdi swap

i may be interested in that arb.

i just finished up building and running the US press launch for the GX. It’s a pretty impressive truck!

sadly. i’ve already got an ls3 130, 3 110’s, 2 D1’s and i bought a d2 yesterday

That’s a hell of a deal!

nice truck! i thought my 06 with 127k was low mileage!