Hey Marin, I haven't seen a reply to your 3 Land-Rover history questions you posed for that kid yesterday. Have you gotten a reply off the list? I can't remember the questions, but I recall that I knew the first one, whatever it was...
RW
>>> Marin.Faure@PSS.Boeing.com 04/04/01 02:01PM >>>
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 01 19:24:34 -0700
From: TeriAnn Wakeman <twakeman@cruzers.com>
Subject: Re: LRO: RE: Parts availability vs. bulletproofing
>>Did Land Rover make your vehicle as it sits in your garage
>today? Yes or no. It's a very simple issue.
>Just for laughs, what kind of springs are you running?
Land Rover leaf springs. I had to replace the originals after
the first ten years or so, but the replacements were from Land
Rover. I have no idea which supplier in the UK made them for
Land Rover as Rover doesn't make their own springs.
But they came wrapped up in Land Rover's Parts Dept. shipping material.
Every part I've installed on my Land Rover (with the exception of
the Warn hubs, Rochester carburetor I ran for awhile, some of the instruments,
and the current stainless exhaust system) has been an OEM part, or
a Land Rover "approved" part, like the Fairey overdrive and capstan
winch. Actually, I seem to recall Warn hubs were a "factory approved"
accessory back in the early '70s, but I may be wrong on that. There
were some UK-manufactured locking hubs that could be ordered installed
at the factory in Solihull, but they weren't Warns.
.
As I said, few if any of the parts were actually made by Land Rover,
but they have all been the parts sold by Land Rover dealerships or factory
authorized parts distributors. I haven't done this to preserve the integrity
of my vehicle, but because from the experience of other Land Rover
owners back in the '70s and
early '80s, the factory-approved replacement parts were better made
and fit with no problems, as opposed to many aftermarket parts that
created more problems than they solved. At least back then. Plus
the parts houses I've used over the years have all stocked only Rover parts.
But I don't believe putting a non-Rover-supplied replacement part on a Land
Rover makes it "not a Rover." After all, these days the parts on any vehicle
come from all over the world. Even in the 1970s, Land Rover was making little
of the Series vehicles from scratch. Today, virtually every part of every Land Rover
vehicle comes from a supplier. The company makes nothing on their own, they
only assemble vehicles. The situation was not quite the same in the '70s, as
the company was still making its own frames back then (they haven't since the
early '90s). So using seals or whatever from a US-supplier doesn't change the
nature of the beast. Swapping the engine, transmission, steering, etc. does.
It's at that point that a Land Rover is no longer a Land Rover, but becomes
a hybrid vehicle.
___________________________
C. Marin Faure
(original owner)
1973 Land Rover Series III-88
1991 Range Rover Vogue SE
Seattle
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