Thread: Ben's 107

Doing a proper job of it eh? Looking good.

I was advised to start putting penetrating oil on the shackle nuts long before wanting to remove them. May I pass that advice on to you, though the close up of that shackle nut shows remarkably little rust?

When you get the chassis sandblasted you will find areas a lot worse than that. It's all easy fix tho.

About your question re S3 T/case, the Series 1 & early S2's have a small diameter intermediate shaft, the later S2A & S3 have a much larger diameter shaft, I can't access anything ATM but I will attempt to look today cheers Dennis

The diameter of the Intermediate shaft for the S2A/3 is 1.626" or inch n five eights, the Series 1 early S2 is much smaller, cheers Dennis

For a series 3 the actual gearbox series number is on the top edge of the transfer case and that number does not look right for that. It could have been rebuilt at some stage and had numbers stamped on by the rebuilder. As Dinty said, the transfer case intermediate shaft changed size part way through series 2A (Suffix B ) so anything from late sixties on will have the larger intermediate shaft. You can see the shaft on the back of the transfer so don't have to take it apart to tell.

Cheers,

TimJ.

Thanks for the help guys.

I did mean to post something up a few days ago. I measured the shaft and it is defiantly not series 3.

As far as the box rebuild goes, it was rebuilt shortly before it was parked up so that must explain the markings.

One of the happiest moments of my (re)build was steam cleaning many years of grime off and being able to read the various serial numbers

You're doing a super job, well done

Things have been slow over the last couple of months. I've rebuilt the axles on my daily drive after finding metal in the back diff....

Anyway, I came across another 107 that has been sitting on a farm for 30 years. It was also at the right price.. so






This one will be used as a parts mule for the 107 and Brute's 86 as the chassis is rotten.

An interesting point is that the front wings have WAPET sign written on them. All the research I have done so far has not given me any leads as far as the vehicle is concerned. Anyone have any Ideas?

We were excited that when we dropped a battery in it, the dashboard lit up and the engine turns over on the starter. Also, we discovered that the engine belongs in a 53 80" so it will most likely get sold. Unsure about the gearbox yet.

We should have it stripped down in the next few weeks.