what to look out for on an old L200?

[Wolfie]

I had a 2003, it was a pile of sh!t. Pully crank shearing, head gasket, oil leak after oil leak, crap drive and too thirsty.

[5 shires]

I had a 2003, it was a pile of sh!t. Pully crank shearing, head gasket, oil leak after oil leak, crap drive and too thirsty.

 

I think that's sealed the deal Wolfie..:thumbup:

[flatyre]

Well here she is! not exactly mint but perfect for what I want. She has a good engine, gearbox, diff, tyres etc. The local 4x4 breakers wanted £150 for a set of wings and £200 for a rear load tub minus the tailgate. Found a guy a couple of miles up the road that has a couple of older L200's including a breaker with decent bodywork, he wants to keep all the mechanicals but is happy to sell anything else, he offered me the wings for £50, so i'm going to offer him £250 if he'll sell me the wings, bonnet, doors, front bumper and any non mechanical parts. Have a mate who's a car body repairman and wants me to do some landscape work at his house so I'll get him to prep and paint her, and just took down a row of Laburnums for another friend who has his own engineering business, specialises in fabricating farm equipment so plan on putting a semi decent load bed on her while he fabs up a tipping body.

 

 

 

 

[woody paul]

Looks like a money pit to me.

Me mate runs a 55 plate l200, doing picking up on shoots all season and deer stalking the rest of the time and never had a major problem with it.

[Mick Dempsey]

Well that is a project!

 

I can't understand going to the expense and hassle of putting a tipping body on a bed that small.

 

What's it going to hold? 1mtr cube? You could fork out that amount of chip in a couple of minutes.

[inthewoods]

Well that is a project!

 

I can't understand going to the expense and hassle of putting a tipping body on a bed that small.

 

What's it going to hold? 1mtr cube? You could fork out that amount of chip in a couple of minutes.

 

True but be it a 'full' load of chip or even logs, it's the last thing you want to do at the end of a hard days graft, I'd much rather just press a button.

[Mick Dempsey]

At what cost though?

[woody paul]

True but be it a 'full' load of chip or even logs, it's the last thing you want to do at the end of a hard days graft, I'd much rather just press a button.

 

If you only produce enough chips to fill that in aday you have not worked hard.

[IRE David H]

hi do you have your own dumpsite or do you have to use a paid tip site. if the later is it possible to get a pallet and tie a rope around either side and use a loader or tie the ropes to something and drive away leaving the brush, logs, chips etc on the ground.

[inthewoods]

Mick - way too much! Even if you're doing a homemade one, unless you've got all you need laying around in a shed & are handy with a welder. Cheapest conversion I've found was protipper (or similar) at £1695 using my existing ally sides (double cab ranger)

 

Woody - haha too true. My reason's mainly for logs, that & I'm not as young as I used to be!