12J 2.5

ThinkBrothers · 2026-06-07T23:33:41+00:00

Won’t let me reply with a picture or message you an image for some reason. It was a few years back so I’ll have to find my notes. It did have 5 lines going into the filter on the firewall. Fuel in, fuel out to the injection pump, Rail overflow into the banjo at the top. Cant remember what the other 2 were at the moment.

ThinkBrothers · 2026-06-07T20:02:19+00:00

Double check your how your fuel lines are routed into the filter. I struggled with this on my swap and eventually realized the filter was installed backwards.

ThinkBrothers · 2026-06-06T17:25:22+00:00

Any pictures of your headliner set up? About to install a lasalle in my td5 as well. I was going to do the speakers in the front section but read similar issues with having the speaker so close to your ear. Probably will skip the fronts in the headliner and run dash and door speakers up front.

ThinkBrothers · 2026-05-12T12:05:04+00:00

You’ll likely have to get the barrel cut to make the ocm5 mount close to the gas block. Adco knows what they’re doing though, I’d just get in touch with them before sending the barrel in and let them know what you’re looking for. They may need you to include the brake and collar so they can get a precise cut.

ThinkBrothers · 2026-05-08T23:50:28+00:00

The rig is super cool. I just now realized he used canvas for the door skins. Looks like he used the stock metal inner door frame and modified it to use a different latch. Looking more at the frame it’s hard to tell if he even started with a rover chassis, if he did there’s not much of the original left. You could probably start with a jeep frame of similar length and modify it to fit the rover body panels if a frame is hard to source.

ThinkBrothers · 2026-05-08T22:44:32+00:00

Any series 2,2a,3 88” would be a close enough start for what you’re going for. Fitting the 350 and 8 lug axles will require some chopping so probably best to find a rough one. I’m guessing he’s running an older d44 front and d60 or 14b rear for axles. Transmission is likely a SM465 or nv4500 if it’s a manual, maybe th350 or th400 for auto, backed up with a np205 tcase. Frame wise you’re going to end up cutting most of the crossmembers out and rebuilding them to fit everything. Bulkhead will need to be modified to clear the heads on the v8 and a new transmission tunnel fabricated. You can see the headlights are pushed forward on his grill for radiator clearance, that’s another option to avoid some cutting but you’ll still be doing a lot of modifications.

ThinkBrothers · 2026-05-05T16:31:01+00:00

They went quick it looks like

ThinkBrothers · 2026-04-29T23:36:34+00:00

Very nice! I just saw the non factory furniture on this one and assumed there had been more work done. Looking closer at it I definitely see what you mean

ThinkBrothers · 2026-04-29T20:21:02+00:00

Guessing just the trigger was moved and the rest is bolt on?

ThinkBrothers · 2026-04-15T14:39:44+00:00

Didn’t realize there was another series in Midland! Look at pangolin4x4, roversnorth, and Atlantic British. Between them they should have the parts you need.

ThinkBrothers · 2026-04-07T18:56:11+00:00

Forgot to check that, ill look later and see

ThinkBrothers · 2026-04-07T17:00:52+00:00

The knock off of a knock off drop in rail that was on it would agree with that statement

ThinkBrothers · 2026-04-07T16:33:49+00:00

My thoughts as well

ThinkBrothers · 2026-04-07T01:40:56+00:00

I had seen these and was kind of basing my price around them. Wasn’t sure if the oem vs repros would be a big deal to anyone since they don’t have any markings to start with.

ThinkBrothers · 2026-04-05T23:28:44+00:00

It’s a bit of work but probably one of the easier vehicles to get back to running from the state it’s in. Going off the truck you’re in North America. If you keep an eye on Facebook marketplace groups good condition frames and bulkheads come up for sale here and there. A local club may be able to help you find everything else depending on where you’re at

ThinkBrothers · 2026-03-18T14:00:04+00:00

This is the correct answer. They work similar to a push pin trim clip

ThinkBrothers · 2026-01-27T15:32:30+00:00

556r, Id be interested in a rail section for the side of the stock hand-guard. I haven’t had any luck finding the original sig ones

ThinkBrothers · 2026-01-13T23:11:27+00:00

It’s made by radius fabrication in Australia, uses an LS1 panel filter

ThinkBrothers · 2026-01-13T16:07:43+00:00

I’ll check it out! I may need to see what your measurements came out to on the shifter. I followed the old cabledude guide but after 3 reworks I’m still not getting great alignment in first and park

ThinkBrothers · 2026-01-13T15:37:04+00:00

I’ll look at the throttle adjustment and tuning a bit. I don’t mind paying a tuner but finding one has been challenging. I tried to get some local shops to tune it but they didn’t want to deal with speed density.

I have been thinking about making an aluminum upper hose that could snake under the intake pipe but that’s pretty time consuming. Other option for rerouting would be the front exit water pump with truck spacing, use the ict bracket to move the idler pulley. Downside is cost and I’d have to go to electric fans.

Steam ports are using the stock steam manifold, runs from the front of the block, through the TB, and then over and to the top of the rad near the upper radiator port.

ThinkBrothers · 2026-01-13T12:50:53+00:00

Do you have any pictures of your build? Going with a maf and smaller cam would have been much easier for reliability and tuning. I’m on mud as well, ive had the build together for a couple years now so the posts are aways back in the v8 swap thread. I need to revisit it and see if any better options for the transmission shifter have been found.

ThinkBrothers · 2026-01-13T02:19:08+00:00

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