I used a 109 Station Diesel as a daily in the 1990s and consequently drove it everywhere. Including (from the middle of Germany) Cornwall at least once a year (filled to the rooftop with beer for my mate there - they made me empty out 6 jerrycans of Diesel at the ferry port once but didn't mind the beer), Biarritz at least once a year (3000km round) Spain/Portugal a couple of times, Morocco once, and regular weekend trips to the family cottage (400km round). The 109 did never miss a beat and I was apparently still young enough to have had a proper home stereo speaker blasting away at my left ear (house music mostly back then curtesy of the aforementioned Cornish mate ) with no noticeable ill effects. Great car which I should have kept, but the replacement 300 Tdi was also lovely (definitely should have kept that one).

Great replies, apart from fuel costs is a 2.25 petrol with a possible overdrive fitted going to be ok for distance travelling, I have replaced the 2.25 diesel to put it back to original petrol

Looks great Gareth and nice Land Rover

I took my old Series two over to France on a couple of occasions, and in my Series One I have been to a couple of events in the Czech Republic, Switzerland and around France and Germany too. Great fun!

Quote from: Bigdog on Feb 13, 2024, 05:55 PMGreat replies, apart from fuel costs is a 2.25 petrol with a possible overdrive fitted going to be ok for distance travelling, I have replaced the 2.25 diesel to put it back to original petrol

  Of course !!   

Quote from: Bigdog on Feb 13, 2024, 05:55 PMGreat replies, apart from fuel costs is a 2.25 petrol with a possible overdrive fitted going to be ok for distance travelling, I have replaced the 2.25 diesel to put it back to original petrol

When my 109" was petrol I could nurse it along at 50 and get 21 to the gallon, or spank it at 70-75 and get 14 to the gallon. No overdrive.

If it's properly sorted, an overdrive equipped 109" petrol should be capable of cruising at 60 or so pretty much indefinitely, with power in reserve.

The 2.25 diesel, with an overdrive, would have done about 25 to the gallon regardless of how hard you drove it, and would have cruised at 60 or so too, but without much more go beyond that.

Hi,

Overdrive sounds expensive!

A Range Rover differential in the back axle will give you an extra ?% more miles per RPM, but "should" " prevent using 4WD on a hard surface. Unfortunately, it's more complicated to change the front differential.

Will differentials from other Rover models (P3, P4, 3litre, Range Rover, and Discovery, etc) fit into a Series axle? Did the differential manufacturers fit themselves around Rover's axles? It would make more sense, with probably  little, if any, extra cost, for Rovers to make axles to accept differentials already in volume production.

750x16 tyres are 15% bigger than 600x16, which should give a corresponding drop in engine RPM, for the same speed. But you should fit the bigger tyres to wider LWB rims (which come with two different off-sets).

Remember, you can OVER gear a car beyond it's torque, with can result in using third gear, where other Series are cruising in top.

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Quote from: Gareth on Feb 12, 2024, 10:31 PMDrove to Morocco in 2007. Now I have tinnitus!

Gareth that is a fantastic looking vehicle, doing what they were built for....work.

You can read all about it in a previous B2L club mag.

https://landrover.series2club.co.uk/document/2020-3-2/

Gareth many thanks for that, thoroughly enjoyable reading.

Yeah a very good read, my next question what age is too old to do this trip, I suppose it all depends on health etc

Never too old either for you or the land rover.

Peter

Quote from: Bigdog on Feb 15, 2024, 05:55 PMYeah a very good read, my next question what age is too old to do this trip, I suppose it all depends on health etc

Interesting question! It was 17 years ago I did that trip. I was 42 years old. I was working, but had the benefit of being my own boss, and my team mates (who I would not have been able to do the trip without) were able to get a month away from work.

It was a case of getting all the ducks in a row to make it possible, and then committing to do it.