Chopping into a tipper

[billpierce]

Anyone converted a 5 seat vehicle into 2 seat tipper?

 

Got a hankering to chop a 80 series land cruiser or hilux surf to make a arb tipper, interested if anyone has done so and what the legal/insurance consequences are

 

Thanks

[spuddog0507]

never done it but i could imagine it being a nightmare with DVLA and insurance, just buy one thats ready to go, cutting and chopping is a lot of work/time and at the end of it you might have a vehicle thats not of any use to you, Land cruiser pick up ? Hilux surf pick up is there such a vehicle that would crop up on a insurance brokers list ?

[paddyvero]

Didnt this chap turn a disco 1 into a tipper? @treequip . Someone did if it wasnt him? Looked tidy!

Edited April 16, 2020 by paddyvero
Wrong member.

[treequip]

Yup, that was me, I took it to a 100 inch wheelbase beefed up the back suspension, then I got a bit giddy and messed about making a secure saw locker behind the cab which ate a ton of time.

I registered the changes with DVLA and I insured it with the NFU, they wanted an engineers report but after that it was all good

[billpierce]

Yup, that was me, I took it to a 100 inch wheelbase beefed up the back suspension, then I got a bit giddy and messed about making a secure saw locker behind the cab which ate a ton of time.

I registered the changes with DVLA and I insured it with the NFU, they wanted an engineers report but after that it was all good

How did you get the engineers report?

[billpierce]

never done it but i could imagine it being a nightmare with DVLA and insurance, just buy one thats ready to go, cutting and chopping is a lot of work/time and at the end of it you might have a vehicle thats not of any use to you, Land cruiser pick up ? Hilux surf pick up is there such a vehicle that would crop up on a insurance brokers list ?

Your probably correct. Thing is i have very specific requirements.

1. Must be an old non CR engine
2. Probably must be toyota

This means mk3 or m4 hilux which are pretty gutless so engine swop required anyway and tipper conversion so figured might easier to just do a chop job then tipper conversion.

Getting land cruiser pickup is possible but eye wateringly expensive

[treequip]

40 minutes ago, billpierce said:

2 hours ago, treequip said:

Yup, that was me, I took it to a 100 inch wheelbase beefed up the back suspension, then I got a bit giddy and messed about making a secure saw locker behind the cab which ate a ton of time.

I registered the changes with DVLA and I insured it with the NFU, they wanted an engineers report but after that it was all good

How did you get the engineers report?

Simple as, I just googled it and picked one from the results, He came around, looked at the vehicle and the "during work pictures" I had and signed off on it. Cost about a hundred from memory

 

Edited April 16, 2020 by treequip
forgot

[jmac]

Must be doable, local guy to me is always doing stuff like this. His last pickup conversion was a big old volvo estate ?? and it was on the road.

[Khriss]

Didn't have any insurance bother with mine Series II, But don't alter major parts or increase GVW , as it was a pickup basically , it's a more useful one now.  K

[wicklamulla]

i'll try and get u a pic of an 80 series Land Cruiser that has been made into a 2 seater pickup.