A few months ago I retrieved my 1988 Range Rover Classic from a property it had been at for the last 5 years. And prior to that not driven much for a good few years. Its an early EFI version and was dual fuel then running lpg only but retained the original fuel system. Been trying to get it going but can't yet get power to the injectors - so many wires....
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I've also been taking a closer look at this
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Locally known as Yellow Car it is on the mountain bike/walking track near my house. I've been riding past it for the last 20 years but doing less riding lately and more walking I decided to take a closer look.
On first look I spied the starter motor had been removed but was just sitting in the bay but still wired up. A tug on it freed it up and I thought I may as well take it home. A starter motor gets pretty heavy on a hilly 3km walk! Anyway, bench tested it and it works. I've got a couple of junk holden 6 cylinder engines that I want to rebuild as practice for building Betty's grey motor and I'm lacking a few things like the starter motor. I've since retrieved the fuel pump (no bowl), oil pump (looks good), manifolds and thermostat housing. Also been treking in every day and cracking the head bolts as one of my blocks is lacking a head. It's taken a few trips with a busted 1/2 to 3/8 socket adaptor, stripped rocker cover bolts so I couldn't get inside and needed to take my butane torch. It's about a 10 minute walk from the nearest place I can park so I plan to wander in tomorrow with a trolley and liberate the head.
its fairly easy to remove the fuel injection and retrofit a carb on those alloy V8's but you will never get it registered like that , hand if you are going to use it for a shooting bus or something like that...
I started with nothing and still have most of it left.
Foundation member #61 of FB/EK Holden club of W.A.
I'm surprised the front seats are still in the commy there actually a comfortable seat had some in my EK sedan for a while before I changed it back to a bench
Theres bugger all of them around these days but the 4 cylinder early Commodes weren't completely useless, apart from the rods and oil filter adapters off the engines, they had disc front ends that were early Holden stud pattern and wore 13" rims - perfect for adaption to HR front ends and you could still run your deep dish 13" chromies
I started with nothing and still have most of it left.
Foundation member #61 of FB/EK Holden club of W.A.
Chances are that it has the poor mans Salisbury under it, but there is a slight chance that it was optioned up with the big-boys Salisbury with slippery centre.
Check the plate on the radiator support panel. GU7 code is the little one, but GU4, GV4 or GV7 opens up the chance of the big one. Not sure if the early commies had the LSD warning tag on the fill plug.
Cheers,
Harv
327 Chev EK wagon, original EK ute for Number 1 Daughter, an FB sedan meth monster project and a BB/MD grey motored FED.
so true
