Land Rover Project: Sexy Back: Love is in the Eye of the beholder.

Really neat project in my opinion . At one time I maintained a big fleet of Chevy trucks with 6.2 and 6.5 diesels and some of them had really high miles on them but still ran great. I did not hear any mention of the glow plug timer being installed. So just be careful not to keep them on to long they melt and droop over in such a way that makes them very difficult to remove. Sorry if this is something you already know. Good work Sir I like it a lot.
 
Awesome. Good to hear it fire up. That has to be a huge relief for you. I know the feeling. [emoji106]

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Power steering pump, alternator and cooling lines left in the engine bay. Then install the transfer case and have some new driveshafts made. Then maybe I can drive it again.

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I just stuck it on because I don't want to get anything else in the engine. I sucked a rag through it last night by accident. Didn't hurt anything. Just chewed it up and spit it out on the floor. Lots of little pieces of rag everywhere


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So, i've been working on this thing lately again. I finally decided to use the GM power steering pump. The land rover one wouldn't fit anywhere well, and the stock GM pump in its stock location was hitting the steering box. The cool thing about using the GM pump, is the fluid reservoir is self contained, and the stock land rover fittings screw right into the pump, also there will be less hoses to leak and less crap under the hood. I have to build a few new brackets still to help stabilize it better, but it'll work just like stock.


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I've been looking for alternator options. I wanted something that put out a lot of juice stock and was reliable. After a bit of research I figured out a GM CS144 style alternator was the answer. It puts out 140 amps stock and I can swap my V-belt pulley right on. It even mounts in the stock location. I will have to wire it up, but it just needs a battery signal, ignition keyed on signal and it even has a tack wire.


In this picture, its just hanging there. I'm still cleaning up the brackets.


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The engine bay is starting to get cluttered. I'm hoping later down the road, I can add the AC pump.


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I also ordered an electric fuel pump off amazon, its pretty heavy duty, it came with a pump, regulator and gauge. So, once I figure out how to mount all that stuff, I'll post a picture. I need to get some fittings so i can hook it all together.
 
Finished relocating the power steering pump today.

Now I just need to find a non- hydroboost version and I can get the pulley on and aligned.

I ended up moving it about 1.5" up.

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What is about the hydroboost pump won't work for you? Can't you just cap off the unused pressure and return ports and run it?
 
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