Thread: Isuzu C240 powered Series 3

Originally Posted by dolphint

Colin, have a look in the back of that ex army 2A, I think there's a spare gear stick etc. in there somewhere.

Cheers Steve.

Steve,

I still haven't got round to checking through everything that's in there yet, give us a chance it's only been about 20months now.....

The previous owner of the shorty had it on the road so the bits I need must be in one of the many boxes that came with it.

Gearbox with bellhousing resting on blocks of wood ready to accept the transfer box.

DSCN1448 by Colin Radley, on Flickr

Transfer box fitted.

DSCN1454 by Colin Radley, on Flickr

Went to fit the transfer box intermediate shaft and remembered that the thrust washers had some non-rotating tags welded on. Must have been part of the modifications for the relocation of the shaft on the high speed conversion.

DSCN1451 by Colin Radley, on Flickr

Just need to get a few bits painted and finish reassembly.

I'm away the next couple of days running interviews in Sydney so I won't get time to work on it again until later in the week.


Colin

I managed to get the intermediate shaft in the transfer box other night.
The original roller assemblies had the endplates of the cage very badly worn so I got some replacements but they are aftermarket. Not convinced they are as well made but the rollers were dropping out of the originals so they had to be replaced. I'll keep a look out for some genuine ones.

DSCN1453 by Colin Radley, on Flickr

The intermediate shaft is 1 1/8" diameter so it's an earlier transfer box (S2 ?)

DSCN1513 by Colin Radley, on Flickr

I'll get some more painting done at the weekend and look in the back of the S3 for some of the 'missing' parts (and your old 2a GS Steve). One thing I do need to get is the handbrake operating arm boot otherwise I have everything else to complete the reassembly.



Colin

Managed to get some of the transmission brake parts painted on Saturday, then I decided to cut the grass and the ride-on threw a belt. It's a very old Greenfield and I've spent very little on it over the 8 years I've owned it so time for some repairs. Ended up cutting the grass with a push mower today.

I did find time to get Wallit down the driveway a bit so I could take the Defender for a run. I found the deep cycle battery was flat (it's at least 4 years old) so time for a new one, maybe a new starting battery as well and the old one (still OK) can pass down the line to one of the other Land Rovers.

DSCN1522 by Colin Radley, on Flickr


Colin

Rimmer Bros has genuine intermediate bearings:
Bearing - Intermediate Gear - Genuine Land Rover at www.rimmerbros.co.uk

Originally Posted by isuzurover

Rimmer Bros has genuine intermediate bearings:
Bearing - Intermediate Gear - Genuine Land Rover at www.rimmerbros.co.uk

Not sure whether that's for the earlier 1 1/8" shaft, I thought the originals had a metal cage.



Managed to get the transmission brake back together, the output flange & drum were fitted after the photo below was taken.

DSCN1537 by Colin Radley, on Flickr

Just need to find the 'missing' parts in amongst the spares that came with Wallit and the gearbox can be installed. Then finally a chance to test the power of the 2.6 Isuzu.....


Colin

Originally Posted by gromit

Not sure whether that's for the earlier 1 1/8" shaft, I thought the originals had a metal cage.

NO. The Genuine bearings have a plastic cage, and are about a thousand times better than any metal caged bearings I have tried. I have pulled aftermarket metal caged bearings out that were cactus after <5k km - but I do use my series hard.

I am not sure when LR changed, but I have never seen any new, genuine, metal cage bearings. There may be some NOS ones laying around, but I would bet money that the plastic caged version is better.

Originally Posted by isuzurover

NO. The Genuine bearings have a plastic cage, and are about a thousand times better than any metal caged bearings I have tried. I have pulled aftermarket metal caged bearings out that were cactus after <5k km - but I do use my series hard.

I am not sure when LR changed, but I have never seen any new, genuine, metal cage bearings. There may be some NOS ones laying around, but I would bet money that the plastic caged version is better.

Does that apply to both the early (small diameter) and later (large diameter) intermediate shaft ?
All the aftermarket large diameter roller assemblies I've seen use a plastic cage, the early smaller diameter assemblies seem to use a metal cage.

Colin

Originally Posted by gromit

Does that apply to both the early (small diameter) and later (large diameter) intermediate shaft ?
All the aftermarket large diameter roller assemblies I've seen use a plastic cage, the early smaller diameter assemblies seem to use a metal cage.

Colin

I have only ever worked on large I-shaft t-cases. The small ones finished at Suffix A (IIA) - so about 1961???.

I would be suprised if you can still get genuine bearings for the early (small shaft) type???