madcowdungbeetle
Well-known member
I'm extremely depressed about doing this, but I have no choice since the employment gods have not looked down on me favorably.
I've had this truck for 12 years, and it has been wheeled hard. I used this truck for rock crawling and had an absolute blast with it, so this is just killing me to type. I was planning to rebuild it, but it's not just in the cards at this point. Hopefully I can land a new job soon, and I can rejoin the Defender brotherhood at some point.
This truck is a restoration candidate. If you know Defenders you know what to expect, and you know what you're getting yourself into. I'm not going to detail every last square inch of the truck. It has rusted out floor boards, the rear cross member is toast and there is rust at the front of the frame as well. All that being said, it is NOTHING like some of the trucks that I've seen from the Northeast. It currently has no front bumper, I took off the Safari Gard unit and sold it a while back. It is not currently running, either the fuel pump or fuel pump relay went last year and I parked it, anticipating starting to rebuild it, and then life got weird.
The finer points:
Clean NC title
Faded Portifino Red.
~101K on the odometer (I'll update this if I'm off, it's from memory)
3.9 V8
R380
Fast-back NAS ST, so it lacks the C-pillar of the roll cage.
SG 3-link
SG Stage 3 suspension
Bilstein 7100 Remote Reservoir shocks
5 - 37" Goodyear MTR's on MRT 36-bolt HD beadlocks.
Stainless Oil Cooler Lines
I'll post pics later, but you should get the idea.
I've had this truck for 12 years, and it has been wheeled hard. I used this truck for rock crawling and had an absolute blast with it, so this is just killing me to type. I was planning to rebuild it, but it's not just in the cards at this point. Hopefully I can land a new job soon, and I can rejoin the Defender brotherhood at some point.
This truck is a restoration candidate. If you know Defenders you know what to expect, and you know what you're getting yourself into. I'm not going to detail every last square inch of the truck. It has rusted out floor boards, the rear cross member is toast and there is rust at the front of the frame as well. All that being said, it is NOTHING like some of the trucks that I've seen from the Northeast. It currently has no front bumper, I took off the Safari Gard unit and sold it a while back. It is not currently running, either the fuel pump or fuel pump relay went last year and I parked it, anticipating starting to rebuild it, and then life got weird.
The finer points:
Clean NC title
Faded Portifino Red.
~101K on the odometer (I'll update this if I'm off, it's from memory)
3.9 V8
R380
Fast-back NAS ST, so it lacks the C-pillar of the roll cage.
SG 3-link
SG Stage 3 suspension
Bilstein 7100 Remote Reservoir shocks
5 - 37" Goodyear MTR's on MRT 36-bolt HD beadlocks.
Stainless Oil Cooler Lines
I'll post pics later, but you should get the idea.
