Curious to see the opinions of Rover Landers out there..
I think my favourite mod on my D90 is the rooftop tent. I got it last summer, my wife and I used it almost every weekend last summer.
What is your favorite modification to your truck??
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DaveB
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Hi Gord, Scott,
Good to see you made your way over. Things will actually start rolling Monday morning as that's when the other board gets shut down.
My favourite mod has got to be the work I did last fall on the roll bar and the canvas roof. I copied all the roof specs from a military truck and built my own from scratch. Not precisely OEM, but looks real close and cost a fraction of the price.
Gord, do you find the power increase a big deal for driving your truck around? Was wondering if you had it done. BTW, did you check into putting a low boost turbo on your NA diesel? Always wondered if that wouldn't be an economical way to add 20-30 horses.
Dave
Good to see you made your way over. Things will actually start rolling Monday morning as that's when the other board gets shut down.
My favourite mod has got to be the work I did last fall on the roll bar and the canvas roof. I copied all the roof specs from a military truck and built my own from scratch. Not precisely OEM, but looks real close and cost a fraction of the price.
Gord, do you find the power increase a big deal for driving your truck around? Was wondering if you had it done. BTW, did you check into putting a low boost turbo on your NA diesel? Always wondered if that wouldn't be an economical way to add 20-30 horses.
Dave
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roverdevin
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Favourite Modification
In short, My favourite modification is Galvanizing!
During my full rebuild last summer, I took a magnet around the pile o' bits. If the magnet stuck to it, i threw it in the pile of stuff to be dip galvanized. Brackets, mounts, bit, firewall, breakfast. You name it. All bolted to a new galvanized chassis.
I used to cringe when I heard that road salt menacingly flinging itself against the vulnerable undersides of my car. Now I laugh gleefully as I chase the salt truck.
Silver City plating on Annacis Island charges roughly 50c. a pound to plate cleaned steel. For reference, an entire Land Rover's worth of Bulkhead, Breakfast, and 200lbs of misc bits costs roughly 175 bucks.
The only drawback is the stuff has to be clean. Thats a lot of blasting, or an unimagineable amount of wire brushing!
Great topic. Dave...did you build your entire hoopset and canvas from scratch, or just the rollbar mods?
During my full rebuild last summer, I took a magnet around the pile o' bits. If the magnet stuck to it, i threw it in the pile of stuff to be dip galvanized. Brackets, mounts, bit, firewall, breakfast. You name it. All bolted to a new galvanized chassis.
I used to cringe when I heard that road salt menacingly flinging itself against the vulnerable undersides of my car. Now I laugh gleefully as I chase the salt truck.
Silver City plating on Annacis Island charges roughly 50c. a pound to plate cleaned steel. For reference, an entire Land Rover's worth of Bulkhead, Breakfast, and 200lbs of misc bits costs roughly 175 bucks.
The only drawback is the stuff has to be clean. Thats a lot of blasting, or an unimagineable amount of wire brushing!
Great topic. Dave...did you build your entire hoopset and canvas from scratch, or just the rollbar mods?
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DaveB
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Actually, Its Scott's topic...
I started by borrowing the front portions of a military hoop set from Andre, and took them down to a local sheet metal shop and had them bent to the approximate shape, with a bit of left over metal on each end to be cut to shape. This included the bar across the top of the windshield, door tops and door uprights. I then used 1" galv electrical conduit as the hoops, inserting stainless steel plugs to the end, and welding nuts to the bottom of the stainless plugs. In that way I put a bolt and washer up from the bottom to fasten. (lousy description, you'd have to take a look.) We did 2 sets at the same time... one for Chris Holbrow's series I, and one for mine. The tin shop said they would do more sets for about $80, and the hoops cost about $40.
The canvas started as a Princess Auto 10 x 16 tarp, which they had on sale last summer for 19.99. Lots of measuring, followed by installing the snaps on the front to align everything else to... I took my measured and cut pieces to a boat top place and had them sew it up, refit, a bit more sewing, he put in windows, and it looks pretty close to the original.
My total cost for hoops and top was about $100 of parts, plus a $30 pipe bender and $120 of sewing. Compared to about $1100 - $1300 for the original I thought it wasn't too bad.
Dave
I started by borrowing the front portions of a military hoop set from Andre, and took them down to a local sheet metal shop and had them bent to the approximate shape, with a bit of left over metal on each end to be cut to shape. This included the bar across the top of the windshield, door tops and door uprights. I then used 1" galv electrical conduit as the hoops, inserting stainless steel plugs to the end, and welding nuts to the bottom of the stainless plugs. In that way I put a bolt and washer up from the bottom to fasten. (lousy description, you'd have to take a look.) We did 2 sets at the same time... one for Chris Holbrow's series I, and one for mine. The tin shop said they would do more sets for about $80, and the hoops cost about $40.
The canvas started as a Princess Auto 10 x 16 tarp, which they had on sale last summer for 19.99. Lots of measuring, followed by installing the snaps on the front to align everything else to... I took my measured and cut pieces to a boat top place and had them sew it up, refit, a bit more sewing, he put in windows, and it looks pretty close to the original.
My total cost for hoops and top was about $100 of parts, plus a $30 pipe bender and $120 of sewing. Compared to about $1100 - $1300 for the original I thought it wasn't too bad.
Dave
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Favorite? They are all great, but to pick just one---------.
Seats (VW Jetta)
Parabolics (Rocky Mountain)
Winch (Koenig PTO)
Electronic Ignition (Mobelec)
Horn (no longer afraid I wont be heard. Caddilac)
GPS (Lowrance, mounted infront of steering wheel for Speedo and navigation)
All are for different purposes and can't really be compared. I guess I would have to pick the Rocky Mountain Parabolics as they have the most alround effect.
Other changes I have done and would highly recommend but don't fit the catagory "FAVORITE" or "Best": Spin on oil filter, Insulation on tunnel and under hood. Carpet on the floor in the back. Mount on front bumper for high-lift jack. Seat belts for the middle seat and better ones for the front (109 SW). Steering wheel wrap ($3.00 Canadian Tire). Changing the rear door Spare-tire mount to the higher mount location on the door.
Seats (VW Jetta)
Parabolics (Rocky Mountain)
Winch (Koenig PTO)
Electronic Ignition (Mobelec)
Horn (no longer afraid I wont be heard. Caddilac)
GPS (Lowrance, mounted infront of steering wheel for Speedo and navigation)
All are for different purposes and can't really be compared. I guess I would have to pick the Rocky Mountain Parabolics as they have the most alround effect.
Other changes I have done and would highly recommend but don't fit the catagory "FAVORITE" or "Best": Spin on oil filter, Insulation on tunnel and under hood. Carpet on the floor in the back. Mount on front bumper for high-lift jack. Seat belts for the middle seat and better ones for the front (109 SW). Steering wheel wrap ($3.00 Canadian Tire). Changing the rear door Spare-tire mount to the higher mount location on the door.
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tuko
Favorite Mod.....mmm... thats a big question :D
The Designa Galvanized coil sprung chassis, ranks up there.
Then there's the Breakerless Ignition Conversion....mmm., very happy with that :D
The internal RollCage I recently built, which has greatly improved passenger/driver safety.
Galvanized bulkhead.....
My list could go on forever :lol: ,
BUT isn't that the great thing with our Rover's, we can customize them to our requirements.
Cheers,
Todd J.
The Designa Galvanized coil sprung chassis, ranks up there.
Then there's the Breakerless Ignition Conversion....mmm., very happy with that :D
The internal RollCage I recently built, which has greatly improved passenger/driver safety.
Galvanized bulkhead.....
My list could go on forever :lol: ,
BUT isn't that the great thing with our Rover's, we can customize them to our requirements.
Cheers,
Todd J.