Don't believe anyone who says that I am obsessive compulsive but I just drove my second Rover home from Boise yesterday. It is Jason Roses diesel LWB Classic with the 300tdi. My wife has taken to calling it the Queens Car. She even rode in the back on the way to drop off kids this morning. I am not very good at taking pics along the way but I will try to post some from time to time as this evolves. The one quandary I am in now, is that this drives so nice the way it is, I hate to mess with it. It won't work the way it is for off road but man it drives nice on the road. It is going to take some careful restraint not to mess that up.

Definetly looks all "Royal" and stuff..All you need is the British flags and on the front fenders.

Sweet! Congrats Craig.

Dustin

That is a great truck, glad someone who really appreciates it got it.

Proud to say I drove it from where that picture was taken, down to my house! It was a great feeling having a Tdi in a Range Rover!

By the way, it will fit 235/85's on coils with no lift.  Mine rode great like that.

OK, I'll give you the addtional capability of lockers, and my comment wasn't intended as an insult to Syncro capability, I'm a Steyr fan!  So like Mike says, TruTrac or ARB lockers and some M/T's and game on!

Oh my god!  I'm developing Bruder syndrome!  ! !! !!! 

Hey Craig, was that Charles and Camilla I saw in the back yesterday? 

Beautiful truck! 

 So I have started building up the Rover. Probably a little more than I should since my truck has not sold yet but being able to use some of Todd's parts is going to save me money in the long run.

I started by pulling the license plate and Hella fogs (which work great) from under the bumper, since they wouldn't last very long down there. I then pulled my Cibie super Oscars off of my DoKa and restored the wiring and ran new wires back to the factory wire connector under the front corners. This eliminated any splices and looks nice and clean underneath.

You can also see the Baja rack I got from Columbia Rovers. These are very nicely built. Very strong where they need to be but not overbuilt and pretty streamline. Brent tried hard to get me to buy the light bar add on at a great price but with the diesel I really don't need any extra drag so I passed. If anyone needs a great deal on a Baja Rack light bar talk to Brent.

I didn't realize when I bought the back bumper that I was going to have to fab up some bumper mounts. It is kind of based on the stock mounts but took a couple of extra plates to space it out properly and I added some gussets for strength. I tacked everything together using my little lincoln welder and then had my neighbor melt it all together using his real welder. Pretty stoked with the bumper. It does make everyday hatch use a little bit of a pain and I can't fold up my Thule bike carrier. I think it is going to be worth it in the end as it gives me more room in the back.

I got the rock sliders cleaned up and sprayed with another coat of rattle can bed liner. Those will be next on the list. I spoke with Dan about maybe building a lighter pair and after a brief message decided that I could lighten up the tree bar some but the main part of the slider really can't be too much lighter and still do the job. I figure it won't be worth the time and material involved to maybe drop 20lbs at the most. I am guessing that Todd used these way harder than I will and they only have surface scratches and one slight bend. They were mounted using big rivnut inserts. I am thinking I will just use bolts unless I hear why those would be a better way.

That is it so far. Hoping for 2" lift, leaning towards OME Heavy Duty springs and Bilstein shocks. I liked that set up on my SWB. I am leaning towards the Goodyear Dura Tracs for tires. I really think I am going to need to go with 225/75/16's. I would love to go bigger but the tires I have now are 235/70/16 and the diesel barely pushes those uphill.

 

the other Craig

Looks Great!

such a nice rig...........Looks great, Craig!