Australias Oldest Land Rover

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Originally Posted by wrinklearthur

Another quirk of Les Wells's Land Rover, He had shown me the knee action shock absorbers on it, He told me they were adjustable.

I always sure in the thought that Les had fitted them himself and that they were possibly from a '38 Chevrolet car.

But they were not the ones I remembered with the knurled knob on the end of the cylinder.

Then I go and find this ?????.

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What other British cars had this style shock absorbers fitted?

Les prior to owning his Land Rover, had cut the back of a British built car and made it into a ute.
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I seem to remember those shock absorbers on Worsleys right through the 50s models

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Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

BTW: Inc, you have coloured the gal fittings.

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i didnt colour anything :p

the software gets you to pic one spot and tell it the colour you think it is and it does the rest.

it can do complex or simple...

i did a simple on a small portion and it took all night to do what it did :p

if i had done a complex rebuild it would still be going but be way more accurate on finer detail.

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Originally Posted by incisor

FYI

i ran a section of the pic thru some colourizing software

it uses it own algorithms but i had to tell it what colour to start with

and it came up with this

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachment...1&d=1364252739

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So we don't have any grey ones then?

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Originally Posted by andy_d110

So we don't have any grey ones then?

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i have no idea... ;)

and that wasn't my point of interest..

i simply said there are two different colours / shades in the pic

i know for a fact i don't know enough to argue what colour was what when or why.

i just tried to make sense of what i saw in the pic cause it didnt seem to match what i had been told..

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Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

I seem to remember those shock absorbers on Worsleys right through the 50s models

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I think you might mean Wolseley!

Lever-arm dampers were fairly common on quite a few English cars such as Morris, Austin and some Wolseley (although my 6/80 has telescopics),

Cheers Charlie

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Originally Posted by wrinklearthur

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What other British cars had this style shock absorbers fitted?

Les prior to owning his Land Rover, had cut the back of a British built car and made it into a ute.
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Lever action shock absorbers were pretty much standard from when first fitted to most cars in the twenties until at least the late fifties, probably in many cases up to the sixties. In the first generation of IFS British cars they were the upper wishbone.

Telescopic ones gradually replaced them as being cheaper in the 1950s.

John

As well as being more effective.......

Because the lever type work in a arc they would run out of travel easily.

Not good if you want lots of articulation, their only good point is that they can be easily adjusted for a different damping rate.
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Originally Posted by wrinklearthur

Because the lever type work in a arc they would run out of travel easily.

Not good if you want lots of articulation, their only good point is that they can be easily adjusted for a different damping rate.
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I have to disagree - the good point of the lever type is that they can be set to allow any amount of travel by changing the length of the arm and adjusting damping, where a telescopic type demands the end points be separated by more than half the total travel when the spring is fully compressed. This can be difficult to achieve and often leads to compromises such as angled dampers and low and vulnerable bottom attachment points.

However, despite this I prefer the telescopic type - the main failing of the lever type is that the shaft and bearings carry very high loads compared to anywhere on telescopics, and wear here usually leads to failure.

John

http://sphotos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphoto...54792868_n.jpg

for those that don't know, like i didn't till a few minutes ago

this pic is of the first weeks production at the Meteor Works, Solihull (anyone know a date?)

the future (200 vehicle per week) production line is still under construction on the right hand side of the pic.

learn something new every day :p