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    Default 1951 Build


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    Sounds like a fun project!
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    Sounds like a fun project!
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    Default Assembly begins

    Last edited by Disco96JSWB; 10-24-2010 at 09:38 PM.

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    Default Rolling chassis


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    Thumbs up

    progress is good....now to just get the other 3000 things done by spring!

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    Looking good. I like the axle mod for the U-bolts. They look good.
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    Great pictures! Thanks for sharing. Will we continue to be updated?
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    Default Some progress . . .

    Last edited by Disco96JSWB; 12-26-2010 at 04:31 PM. Reason: Spare gearbox only had Suffix A 'lid'

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    Default One year later . . .

    Last winter I put together a Series IIA gearbox with the Series 1 LHD mechanical clutch linkage. I ended up having to replace the layshaft of a Suffix 'C' gearbox with an earlier one, and then install a clutch release housing from a Series 1 gearbox I bought. Along the way I learned that the early layshaft didn't work for a Suffix 'D' gearbox, and I mistakenly also got to see the inside of a Series III gearbox.

    I then placed the combined engine/gearbox unit on the chassis, and the gearbox and engine mounts are completely different (1951 versus 1966). At that point, I 'moth-balled' the project, but it's now a month or two from being back in the workshop. After talking to a couple of people (including the club 'sage', Tom Bache), the consensus is that it would be easier, cheaper and better to modify the 80" chassis to accept the 1966 engine/transmission mounts than to scrounge up all the parts for engine and gearbox mounts for an 80" Rover (which are priced as if they're made of unobtainium).

    Therefore, if anyone has a derelict Series IIA chassis I'd like to look at it (to take pictures and measurements). I might even eventually like to cut the engine mounts off a 'dead' chassis.
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    Last edited by Disco96JSWB; 12-28-2011 at 10:11 PM.
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