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I made similar discoveries when doing the brakes on ours, a mix of Series2(imperial) at the wheels and Series3(metric) pipes ect.. made buying the rear flex hose interesting, the front is now civilian flex hoses.Quote:
Originally Posted by DieselDan
Mine is 1973 and has Dual circuit Master and PWDA as standard. The valve is just a shuttle valve to illuminate the dash lamp to let you know if one of the circuits is leaking. Not a bad idea.
Single leading 10" front and rear is standard on all lightweights.
Thanks fellas,
Glad I'm not the only one who struggled trying to get their head around this!
So the dual master, 5-way pdwa and 10" single drums seems standard on S3 Lightweights from '73 at least!
One more thing I've realised I need to do is move the rear number plate to the middle of the tailgate because we don't have square rego plates!
Thought it was way past due for an update, so here's what's what!
Number plate fixings and light are moved to the tailgate.
I was about to start bleeding the brakes weeks and weeks ago, but before I did, I just thought it was worthwhile double checking the brake cylinders.
Good job I did, two of the four leaked and one was seized solid!
So, all new cylinders and shoes and then start with the bleeding.
To my complete and utter surprise, this has seemingly gone without a hitch.
I've got a piece of clear tube with a one-way valve in the end, which I put in a jar, and attached the other end to each cylinder.
With the door off, this meant that I could push the pedal by hand and look at the tube to see when the bubbles stopped.
In amongst all of this, I discovered quite a lot of rot in the LHS door support pillar portion of the bulkhead, so I attended to this too.
Now that the things that my VASS engineer mate told me to sort are all finally fixed, today was the final inspection day and he's happy with my workmanship, hurrah! Even commenting what a top job I've done on the brake pipes.
So now it's on to getting it road worthy.
Looking at the state of things, there's 3 areas that I reckon will fail - leak at the back of the Tcase/hand brake drum, dodgy looking steering tie-rod end and rear tyres that are rock hard and cracked to buggery.
Trying to find tyres that I like is consuming more time than I thought!
The current rear tyres are original 205R16 Michelin XM+S from an old Rangie (one of each from the picture below) and the fronts are remoulds in a copy of the pattern on the right. I do like the look of these, almost kinda like rally cross tyres and even have holes in them for studs!
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Anyway, these are now unobtanium, although I have found that a company in the UK is remanufacturing the pattern on the right. For over 150 quid a pop!
Since I've got the original 5" wide Lightweight rims, I really need to keep to the 205R16 size, which limits the choice a bit.
But I have found these from Jax, which don't look too bad.
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Thoughts?
New canvas!
Needs a few sprinkles with the hose pipe to seal/season it up.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...1b9fa55da2.jpg
Under Covers one?Quote:
Originally Posted by DieselDan
I’ve been thinking of theirs for ours, getting a good reputation as they cut off the original pattern.
No, it's an Exmoor Trim one.
Never had an Undercover Covers one, so can't compare, but very happy with the quality of this one.
The parts place where I bought all the replacement plugs/leads/dizzy cap, fuel pump/filters etc. in order to get it running ready for export are also an Exmoor Trim dealer, so made sense just to get everything at once.
It lives!
Sort of.
Took it out for a spin ready for a roadworthy check, but I seem to have a fuel starvation issue and it conked out in the middle of a junction!
Typical.
After holding up an inconvenient amount of traffic, someone helped me push it to the side of the road and then gave us a tow!
Oh and does anyone have any military style side/indicator lights going spare?
I only realised why everyone was still coming right up behind me at the junction, even though I had the hazards on, was because the left rear indicator is cactus. Everyone thought I was still planning on turning right!
The metal internals inside the rubber housing have disintegrated!
Taken just prior to it failing to proceed...!https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...d1b5253382.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...590df0cc7b.jpg
