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From: "Bruce Horkings" <bruce@nmit.vic.edu.au>
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 18:23:58 -1000
Subject: Disc Brake Conversion Kit

G'Day,

I own a 1978 SIII 5 door LR and as I am  young, foolish and have money to 
burn (a little bit anyway) I have started to corrupt my poor Landie 
by converting it to a worked Holden engine (unleaded 202) and a 5 
speed gear box. I'm also intrested in a Disk Brake conversion kit, if 
anyone could give me any information regarding this I would be very 
grateful.

Thankin you kindly from  my always Grease ridden finger tips!!

Bruce  bruce@nmit.vic.edu.au 

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From: bigbear@hutch.com.au
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 11:35:19 -0700
Subject: Too Slow

Hello out there,
I'm very new to all this (internet that is) but here goes...
My Series 2A swb has been re-powered with a Leyland P76 V8. We all know a 
Landie will climb a gum tree, but with this much grunt I can do it in 
high 4th. Downside is the engine sounds very busy when cruising on 
highways and I'm always reaching down to change to a higher gear....which 
just isn't there.
Given all the negatives I've heard about Fairey overdrives (not the 
least of which would be having to forgo my PTO), I'm seeking other 
solutions.
I feel that it should be possible to change the high range gearing in the 
transfer box to provide longer legs.
Does anyone know if this is possible/viable?
I'd be pleased to receive your advice and/or comments.
Michael McKinnon

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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 17:34:27 +0800
From: Tony Yates <a,yates@bom.gov.au>
Subject: Re: Too Slow

>Hello out there,
>I'm very new to all this (internet that is) but here goes...
>My Series 2A swb has been re-powered with a Leyland P76 V8. We all know a 
>Landie will climb a gum tree, but with this much grunt I can do it in 
>high 4th. Downside is the engine sounds very busy when cruising on 
>.
>Michael McKinnon

Sounds like a fun conversion. Hope you can afford the spare half-shafts and
diffs 8-)

The easiest thing to do may be to replace the diffs with range rover units
which 
bolt straight in.  Some places offer high range diff conversions if you feel
that
3.5:1 would be too tall.  Overdrives are pretty versatile but would a Fairey
take
the torque of the V8 without falling to bits?  Changing the high range cog
in the
transfer case would be the best solution as you would still retain the stump
pulling
low ratio, but I don't know off hand if such a replacement cog exists.

Cheers.

Tony Yates.
Perth Regional Forecasting Centre,
Bureau of Meteorology,
Perth.
Western Australia.

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