>> I also have a line on a overdrive that comes out of Australia for the
>> Land Cruiser. I am going to inquire with the company about adapting it to
>> the
>> Rover. Shouldn't be to hard considering they are basicly the same design.
>> Best I can do for the time being.
>>
>>
>
>Bill,
>
>If you could swing that, I'd be interested (as long as there are spares for
>it). I love my Santana, but I use it as 5th/4 OD almost exclusively,
>because, it's gotta last (no spares AFAIK)
>
>Nate
The way I would do it is see if someone can adapt the cruiser tranny to the
Rover engine, then you have the stouter TLC tranny (which easily handles V8s
of high magnitude), a stouter T-case, and a stouter overdrive. Plus,
tranny/t-case combos can be had very cheaply and bolt in with fairly little
fabrication I imagine. I was reading somewhere about a series Rover with
the Toyota inline 6 and 4 speed direct into a Rover, not too long ago.
Since the 2F (latest carburetted model) has 132 hp, the axles should hold up
fine and still have a great crawl ratio with the 4.7s.
Good luck!
Andre Shoumatoff 73 Series III 88HT, 79 FJ40
http://www.uvm.edu/~ashoumat
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