smcapstick
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- Kirkby Lonsdale
Only skint people want a diesel. The petrol is much nicer. £3k.
landrover series 3!! what she worth?
- Thread starter markpentre
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Brooklansds?
Red Fred
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- Hants/Dorset border
Series 3 diesel, still have nightmares of revving the nuts off it trying to get it up modest hills in Wiltshire. Mate at college had one with a hand throttle- only good thing about it was the way you could rev it up with the hand throttle when he wasn't expecting it at traffic lights.
Series petrols on the other hand...
markpentre
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- Location
- wrexham
Not a Brookland just a early 2.8. Not got limited slip diff in it which is a down side
Cowabunga
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- Ceredigion,Wales
I had a dark blue truck cab of that age. The chassis was actually heavily and thoroughly coated in thick wax from the factory for the last two or three years of Series3 production.
Mine was also a petrol. Thought it a good idea at the time to replace a Subaru. It was quite reliable but the petrol engine was a pig. Low on power and poor idler.
For the kind of work I used it for, which had far less towing than I do these days, it averaged 9 miles per gallon. Since it has a fuel tank capacity of just over 10 gallons, you can plainly see that I was a regular and valued customer at the petrol station. Every 85 miles and it would be rushed for a refill.
Best thing I ever did was change it for a diesel 110 hi-cap, in 1984, which gave good service for 22 years. I also bought a 110 station wagon in 1983, only a few months after buying the Series3, but that 110 was an unreliable heap of crap on which anything that could fail, did. Go figure.
While towing with the Ranger yesterday, up a local hill, not a particularly steep one, my brother and I discussed the contrast between towing with the 110 diesel [which was a much better and more economical performer than the S3 petrol] and the 2.2 Ranger automatic. I was driving it easily at 2500 rpm at 40mph and we both agreed that the 110 would have been revving at 3000rpm in third and probably dying down, which equated to 30mph. Overall the Ranger does 21mpg for me while the naturally aspirated 110 wheezed to a 16 mpg average. When both are driven gently they are capable of 30mpg, The petrol was even more asthmatic than the 110 2.5 non-turbo but even downhill with the wind behind, it couldn't better 15mpg [9 average but lord knows how many gallons per mile it sucked while towing].
Mine was also a petrol. Thought it a good idea at the time to replace a Subaru. It was quite reliable but the petrol engine was a pig. Low on power and poor idler.
For the kind of work I used it for, which had far less towing than I do these days, it averaged 9 miles per gallon. Since it has a fuel tank capacity of just over 10 gallons, you can plainly see that I was a regular and valued customer at the petrol station. Every 85 miles and it would be rushed for a refill.
Best thing I ever did was change it for a diesel 110 hi-cap, in 1984, which gave good service for 22 years. I also bought a 110 station wagon in 1983, only a few months after buying the Series3, but that 110 was an unreliable heap of crap on which anything that could fail, did. Go figure.
While towing with the Ranger yesterday, up a local hill, not a particularly steep one, my brother and I discussed the contrast between towing with the 110 diesel [which was a much better and more economical performer than the S3 petrol] and the 2.2 Ranger automatic. I was driving it easily at 2500 rpm at 40mph and we both agreed that the 110 would have been revving at 3000rpm in third and probably dying down, which equated to 30mph. Overall the Ranger does 21mpg for me while the naturally aspirated 110 wheezed to a 16 mpg average. When both are driven gently they are capable of 30mpg, The petrol was even more asthmatic than the 110 2.5 non-turbo but even downhill with the wind behind, it couldn't better 15mpg [9 average but lord knows how many gallons per mile it sucked while towing].
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markpentre
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- wrexham
Exfarmer
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- Bury St Edmunds
I had a dark blue truck cab of that age. The chassis was actually heavily and thoroughly coated in thick wax from the factory for the last two or three years of Series3 production.
Mine was also a petrol. Thought it a good idea at the time to replace a Subaru. It was quite reliable but the petrol engine was a pig. Low on power and poor idler.
For the kind of work I used it for, which had far less towing than I do these days, it averaged 9 miles per gallon. Since it has a fuel tank capacity of just over 10 gallons, you can plainly see that I was a regular and valued customer at the petrol station. Every 85 miles and it would be rushed for a refill.
Best thing I ever did was change it for a diesel 110 hi-cap, in 1984, which gave good service for 22 years. I also bought a 110 station wagon in 1983, only a few months after buying the Series3, but that 110 was an unreliable heap of crap on which anything that could fail, did. Go figure.
While towing with the Ranger yesterday, up a local hill, not a particularly steep one, my brother and I discussed the contrast between towing with the 110 diesel [which was a much better and more economical performer than the S3 petrol] and the 2.2 Ranger automatic. I was driving it easily at 2500 rpm at 40mph and we both agreed that the 110 would have been revving at 3000rpm in third and probably dying down, which equated to 30mph. Overall the Ranger does 21mpg for me while the naturally aspirated 110 wheezed to a 16 mpg average. When both are driven gently they are capable of 30mpg, The petrol was even more asthmatic than the 110 2.5 non-turbo but even downhill with the wind behind, it couldn't better 15mpg [9 average but lord knows how many gallons per mile it sucked while towing].
I chopped my diesel for a petrol version as we started hauling to Banbury market which was a good 40 miles and I really did not have the time in a diesel.
Must admit the new one knew how to drink although the diesel it replaced was not exactly abstemious. I think the power diiference was in the order of 15 - 20HP in fvour of the petrol
Until they put a turbo on the the things towing an Ifor fully loaded was an interesting experience in diesel form, but we did have more time then?
Red Fred
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- Hants/Dorset border
Our Srs3 diesel was a dreadful thing. It couldn't pull itself up a hill let alone with a trailer on the back. I still have our 88 petrols in the barn though, a '66 and an '82.
I was heading along the lane to our machinery menders in my car this week when I met a horsegirl in a yellow series 3 coming the other way as fast as she could go round a bend. She stepped on the brakes and it looked as if the opposing two locked up, as she ended up coming sideways towards me while I just sat still and waited. Luckily it stopped just feet away but she gave herself and me a fright.
I was heading along the lane to our machinery menders in my car this week when I met a horsegirl in a yellow series 3 coming the other way as fast as she could go round a bend. She stepped on the brakes and it looked as if the opposing two locked up, as she ended up coming sideways towards me while I just sat still and waited. Luckily it stopped just feet away but she gave herself and me a fright.