head and tail light brush gaurds needed. bad gas mpg

[montanarover]

does any one know were i could find a used pair of the headlight / tail brush gaurds for a series 3.. also what mpg should i be getting out of my rover ? it has the roch. carb on it..my mpg seems pretty bad.

[Les Parker]

Light guards

Our hosts offer these :-

http://www.roversnorth.com/store/p-1546-lamp-guard-front-late-series-iia-iii.aspx

and

http://www.roversnorth.com/store/p-4823-lamp-guard-front-or-rear-series-iia-iii.aspx

[disco2hse]

also what mpg should i be getting out of my rover ? it has the roch. carb on it..my mpg seems pretty bad.

Impossible question to answer.

I think my string is too short and it is braided, how long should it be?

[Terrys]

Les, Does the catalog description "headlamps in grill..." mean the rear guards won't fit over the 4" amber indicator lenses?

[o2batsea]

Those rear lamp guards come in awful handy when trees sneak up on you from behind.

[TedW]

Those rear lamp guards come in awful handy when trees sneak up on you from behind.

Some of us manage to back into stuff......that's one example of when they are nice to have.

[SafeAirOne]

Some of us manage to back into stuff......that's one example of when they are nice to have.

Exactly. There are plenty of "opportunities" to travel in an other-than-forward direction when off-pavement. Many of these "opportunities" occur in tight spaces, where you have to reverse into the scrub a bit.

I will grant you that these guards serve no purpose on:

1) Vehicles that never travel in reverse or
2) Parked vehicles

and they have little purpose on vehicles whose tires are unfamiliar with dirt.

On a side note: Trees don't sneak up on you from behind. Trees don't move much at all, really.

[montanarover]

i need them for when i take small narrow roads to go fishing..i seem to always seem to run into these tough montana bushes that scrape and break something..i am looking for a set of used ones to use not just look cool...

[LaneRover]

and they have little purpose on vehicles whose tires are unfamiliar with dirt.

On a side note: Trees don't sneak up on you from behind. Trees don't move much at all, really.

You must have very nice trees in your part of the country . . .

[LaneRover]

does any one know were i could find a used pair of the headlight / tail brush gaurds for a series 3.. also what mpg should i be getting out of my rover ? it has the roch. carb on it..my mpg seems pretty bad.

What mileage are you getting?

I got about 16/17 mpg with a rochester on my 69 109 P-up with an overdrive.

[TeriAnn]

What mileage are you getting?

I got about 16/17 mpg with a rochester on my 69 109 P-up with an overdrive.

Highway between 15-16 with Rochester in '60 109 Dormobile with roof rack (heavier than pickup). That's at around 55 MPH. Faster you go the worse the mileage.

Round town or on trail mileage really sucked though. About 7 or 8 MPG. Maybe spent too much time exercising the accelerator pump in the carb.

Strangely enough when I converted from a 2.25L LR engine to a Ford 302 V8 with 500 cfm carb, I got identical fuel mileage which leads me to believe that a lot of a Land Rover's fuel mileage issues is based upon its wonderful streamlining. The positive thing is that the V8 has more power at idle than the 2.25L does at peak.

Later when I converted the 302 to EFI the highway mileage only went up about 2 MPG at the same highway cruising speeds but the trail and around town mileage went way up. Almost doubling to around 14 MPG.

What Series folk with the old 2.25L petrol engine need is someone who is really good at EFI develop an EFI conversion for that engine. May not help much if any on the highway but it could make a huge difference around town. And I have discovered that EFI is much smoother on the trail.

[Les Parker]

On a side note: Trees don't sneak up on you from behind. Trees don't move much at all, really.

Unless there's a sign saying " Heavy Plant Crossing"

[montanarover]

so so true ! but they do grow in your path at times ..at least the branches & brush ..but it's all worth it in a rover and to get to the alpine lakes for the fish...

[SafeAirOne]

Highway between 15-16 with Rochester in '60 109 Dormobile with roof rack (heavier than pickup).

That's not so bad, all things considered. I thought it'd be worse than that.

...Unless there's a sign saying " Heavy Plant Crossing"

Still not sure what it means, but there is such a sign! Must be a UK/European thing...??

[bkreutz]

That's not so bad, all things considered. I thought it'd be worse than that.






Still not sure what it means, but there is such a sign! Must be a UK/European thing...??

I'm thinking that "plant" is referring to a factory as opposed to the leafy green things. (but this is just a guess)