Thread: LANDY'S LAST RESTORATION BY ME

Originally Posted by 1950landy

I may have to make up a tappered sleve & lube it with detergent & try to slide it down over the large part of the column. Not sure if the rubber will stretch that far.

Thats what most do. Some pre stretch it for a bit as well.
Dont forget to put it on the column before fitting it to the bulkhead as it goes on the engine side.
Keith

I got a few more jobs done today after doing a few jobs for my wife. They always have some thing to do when it is L/R time.
I found two reasons the rear axel seals leaked , 1st the diff breathers , the mud wasps had filled them up with mud, 2nd & main reason I put the seals in back to front last time. YES IT WAS. I fitted them to stop the oil leaking from the diff instead of to stop the grease leaking out of the hubs.

I took the brake drums & some other bits to the sand blaster this morning , then after lunch I gave them a coat of etch primer & when that was dry black .
I also fitted the start motor & spin on oil filter & adaptor , booth these jobs are not easy with the body off but are almost impossible with it on.

It's no wonder L/R's have oil leaks in the gear box. these rubber seals on the detent springs have a hole through the middle & there is a little metal L bracket that holds them in . I don't know what stops the oil from passing through the spring , I suppose there is not that much oil that gets up there . I will see what happens when I get it back on the road, I may have to fill one end up with silicon .

A few more photo's from today. I also bolted the brake master cylinder back in position on the chassis.

By pass filter adaptor & spin on filter ready to go back on. Bolted back in position on the car . There is not much room for changing the original filter , no wonder so many of these early had the filters removed & left off. I have always had to unbolt the engine mounts & leaver the motor across to the drivers side to change the original filters, not a pleasant job at all.

At about this time a very large storm came through & my daughter rang to ask me to PU her boys from school. She doesn't like driving in the rain & better Grand dad gets wet & hail damaged car than her.

No Land Rover work tomorrow , wife & I look after out twin grand daughters Thursday's . so may be Friday .

Hi Wayne,

I don't like to be the bearer of bad news but You had the axel seals fitted the correct way the first time. The seal is ment to keep the oil in the diff housing.
The bearing is greased and the diff oil shouldn't be allowed to mix with it. The bearings ,depending on what you have been sold, may have just a tin shield or maybe just a dust seal which won't hold oil , so the lip on the seal should face toward the diff housing.

Sorry Steve

Originally Posted by klonk

Hi Wayne,

I don't like to be the bearer of bad news but You had the axel seals fitted the correct way the first time. The seal is ment to keep the oil in the diff housing.
The bearing is greased and the diff oil shouldn't be allowed to mix with it. The bearings ,depending on what you have been sold, may have just a tin shield or maybe just a dust seal which won't hold oil , so the lip on the seal should face toward the diff housing.

Sorry Steve

Hi Steve,
You are correct , when I was putting the seals in my S1 W/S manual was up at out workshop so I hade a look in a Rover Cyclops manual which has the same rear axel set up & it looked very much like it went in the other way. I had a look in my L/R book today & the drawing is a lot clearer. So thanks for that I ma sure I have 2 more axel seals in my box of Rover seals, I know there is 1 more & I hope 2.

PLEASE NOTE KLONK IS CORRECT & I HAVE PUT THE SEALS IN INCORRECT.

This afternoon I reassembled the front brakes , replacing the wheel cylinder cups & boots. Then fitted the front drums I painted the other day.
I also refitted the drag links after fitting new tie rod end boots .
I tightened all the bolts & fittings on my oil filter adaptor & refitted the exhaust manifold after sand blasting & painting with silver exhaust paint.
By this time it was getting too hot to work in the garage so knocked off . May be more tomorrow, I hope.

It's been a wile since I last worked no Landy. what with looking after twin grand daughters & wife wanting things done before Christmas.
I must have been a good boy during the year here is what Santa bought me.
The taps & dies are BSF , I already had Metric , SAE & Whitworth . Hope to get some more done when things get back to normal after New Year. I have ordered a few parts from the UK that I think have gone into that black hole called Aust Post never to be seen again, as they were sent over 1 month ago & still no sign of them. The sender has said that he will replace them at his cost so I have told him I will give it another week after Christmas to see if they turn up , if not he can replace them.

Does any one know what this grommet in the last 2 photo's fits ? I found 3 of them in my Rover & Land Rover parts . I was thinking that may be a grommet for the steering column to bulk head on a late S1 or S2 , the hole looks the right size & the grove in the rubber looks the rite size for the hole in the bulk head