Up to the James Bay area and Caniapiscau. 4300 miles, (1100 on gravel) and averaged 20mpg. Broke a weld on the muffler and had a water pump go south on the way home but besides that the truck ran perfectly. If you're not familiar with the area, it's as far north as you can drive in the northeast and the farthest you can be from a town in North America. In Caniapiscau we were 461 miles from the nearest town.

Here are a couple pictures.





Jim

Very interested to hear about this. I've got a spare 616 and thinking of rebuilding it and putting it in either a S1 or SIIA Landrover. Are there converter plates/bell housins available? Did you have to cut the bulkhead/fabricate a lot of new mounting material? How does it perform c.f. the LR 2.5 NA diesel?

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1975 W115 240D Mercedes-Benz
1950 SI Land Rover
1963 SIIA SWB Land Rover
1945 C15A Chevrolet CMP
1981 HJ47 Toyota Landcruiser

That looks like an incredible trip. I'm quite jealous.

Hi Harry.
I make and sell an adapter plate to bolt the engine to the Rover transmission. I think I sold my last two this morning but will have more made up before too long. There are some things that you'll need to modify and fabricate yourself, but nothing that's rocket science. And no, the bulkhead doesn't have to be modified.

The Benz engine is probably comparable to the 2.5 but as you know it's a much better engine and parts for the Rover diesel state-side are almost impossible.

Here's a link to my website that has some information about my truck and the conversion. http://www.seriestrek.com

Jim

Oh very cool!

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

Thanks Jim, I'll keep all that in mind. Must admit I think Landruiser's walk all over LR's, but I have two so might as well make do. Love the 240s so it makes sense. SPose it'd cost a fair bit to ship an adaptor plate to UK though...

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1975 W115 240D Mercedes-Benz
1950 SI Land Rover
1963 SIIA SWB Land Rover
1945 C15A Chevrolet CMP
1981 HJ47 Toyota Landcruiser

Looks like a fun adventure in a cool vehicle, but I still want a Gelandewagen., preferably with an OM603 turbo.

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Doug

1987 300TD x 3
2005 E320CDI

I'm jealous. I've wanted to canoe the rivers that end up in the James Bay for many years (Missinaibi). Recently read a story about a trailer sailer who took his boat up there for some remote sailing.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

such a sweet ride..

to 1984 driving the Alaskan Highway from Dawson Creek, British Columbia to Fairbanks, Alaska. Same kind of gravel road for 1,500 miles and equally unforgiving conditions. Fuel hundreds of miles apart and no one dared drive after dark, even the truckers that would run 55mph on gravel. Too bad its since been paved...

What a great adventure!

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2001 E320
1991 350SD 265,000 - SOLD
2000 VW Beetle 1.8Turbo - restored
1997 E320 - SOLD
1988 190E - SOLD
1969 Mustang - SOLD

I always enjoy your Rover pics, but why all the stickers on the windows? Stepping all over the good look of your ride.

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Jimmy L.
'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John