Serious about conversion from rhd to lhd
Alright I live in America and own a right hand drive 1984 230ge w460. I want left hand drive and I'm sure there are some of you that want right hand drive. I've been studying mine for a little bit now and I think a lot of the parts will switch from right to left and vise versa. As far I see now the differences are the arm on the bottom of the axle for the tie rod and the drag link and possibly the drag link, the dash pad, the center console due to the location of the hand brake and the trim where the ignition switch is located. There is also the windshield wipers but I'm not concerned about that same with the head lights. I looked into shipping and its about 200 dollars for 40 pounds larger boxes will be extra even if light in weight like the dash pad and center console. So anyone interested in switching parts? Also is there any thing I'm missing?
In my opinion you are flogging a 'dead horse'.
The cost will be very high for the conversion. You would be better off just buying a LHD; sell this one.
For your conversion, you are looking at front drag link, rear tie rod, steering box, bottom stub-axle arm, steering column, control arm diagonally attached from axle to body and the fixing points at either end - if available now? This affects the vehicle dip on turns when the steering links are changed as you are proposing.
Repositioning of battery tray and pedal box hence engine compartment to be empty i.e. engine out job. I do not know if the pedal box will sit on the left or if this is a different part number.
Internally, the dash need replacement or work to convert, electrical wiring to fit with the difference of wire lengths due to conversion. Changing of the gearbox gate, hand brake lever transposition. The wiper arrangement can remain as is.
Once you start body work on the bulk head you will find more and more to do as you would already and the cost will start rising further cause after doing so much it would be silly to start taking short cuts at that point.
I have always thought this is do able, like all g projects it comes down to cost. you dream situation would be a uk g nut wanting to turn lhd wolf into rhd and do a straight swap of parts, including lots of pics both ways to help each other out!!!
Yeah anything is possible and I'm determined to have a left hand drive g looking at it it looks very easy and straight forward
Yeah send me his email cause I do want the5spd with the granny gear which is as rare as hens teeth
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In my opinion you are flogging a 'dead horse'.
The cost will be very high for the conversion. You would be better off just buying a LHD; sell this one.
For your conversion, you are looking at front drag link, rear tie rod, steering box, bottom stub-axle arm, steering column, control arm diagonally attached from axle to body and the fixing points at either end - if available now? This affects the vehicle dip on turns when the steering links are changed as you are proposing.
Repositioning of battery tray and pedal box hence engine compartment to be empty i.e. engine out job. I do not know if the pedal box will sit on the left or if this is a different part number.
Internally, the dash need replacement or work to convert, electrical wiring to fit with the difference of wire lengths due to conversion. Changing of the gearbox gate, hand brake lever transposition. The wiper arrangement can remain as is.
Once you start body work on the bulk head you will find more and more to do as you would already and the cost will start rising further cause after doing so much it would be silly to start taking short cuts at that point.
Nothing you mentioned scares me the battery tray is rusted out so i need to redo it anyways and I'm planning on running 2 batteries so it'll need modified so far the only things I cannot make is the steering box which I might have the correct one and the dash pad I can fab a center console from metal while I am at it I'm going to be adding air conditioning I'll let you know when I am finished and I'll post some pictures of the process