There’s bit of confusion here some 80s had narrower spring front axles and all 80 rear axles were narrow spring. All series is having the same axle width and body width. But the 80in had a shorter because there’s less rear body overhang. That tucked under look is typical series I, but the longer 86in and 88in Series is always look to have their wheels more tucked under. If your Land Rover had series II or III axel on your wheels wouldn’t be well underneath. So the axel is right. So it’s all down to rims and tyres.
Quite often, the original wheels well have been thrown away when tyres wore out and there was a good set of tyres and wheels available from another Land Rover. The very earliest 80s had 4in rims, but it’s unlikely you’d have them. Most (not all) wheels are date stamped between a pair of stud holes on the wheels nave plate you’ll probably have to scrape the paint off to see the stamping, though. It’s easier just to measure the wheel standard series I rim are 4.5 Jx16 (j_ width in inches)
Better to have a rim with more offset now you know how to check the dimension from rim to nave plate, you can look at wheels from scrap Land Rovers and pick what you want. The simplest choice would be from steel wheel Defenders there are quite a lot of these 5in rim knocking about with decent tyres, from vehicle that have had alloy wheel big Tyre upgrades.
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