Salisbury rear diff for 109"

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Originally Posted by dandlandyman

Sorry, Diana, but all Series 1s (except the 107 station wagons alone) have the rear spring hangers in line with the chassis. I've seen it on three of a friends' 1958 109 projects, and another friends 109 farm truck.

Dan.
69 2A 88" pet4, 68 2B FC pet6.

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Dan

It seems that you are correct. :( I checked my 1954-57 parts manual and the rear axle assemblies for both 107 and 109's are the same and therefore springs under the chassis rails. Which makes me wonder about this beastie:

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...09/07/1404.jpg

It is not on a S2 chassis because I was able to view the front outriggers and the rise in the chassis rails under the seatbox (which doesn't happen on s2 109 or 107 SW chassis) but it did/does have a Salisbury and I am 99.5% sure it had the spring hangers on outriggers.

Diana

A modified camper, including a Series 2-3 roof (it doesn't fit properly). Someone was probably concerned about stability and did a wide spring base conversion on it. Lot of trouble though, and I think it might depreciate the Series 1 in the end.

Dan.
69 2A 88" pet4, 68 2B FC pet6.

Dan

Actually it is a 107 Station Wagon roof and there are a number of 107 body panels on the vehicle to the extent that I had to check that it is not a 107 SW chassis. If I had posted one of the other images you could see the straight bottom where the rear door should have been.

The camper conversion would have been quite livable at one point, but it was in a very deteriorated state when I saw it. It had also had a 4.4 V8 conversion at some time. Would be best to discard everything and start from the chassis up.

Diana

Oops, yeah it is a 107 wagon roof - the gutter doesn't go right round the front. I got a bit ahead of myself. I don't think I'd be bothered with it unless it was worth a carton. Or less...

Dan.
69 2A 88" pet4, 68 2B FC pet6.

Didn't the 107 wagon have the outriggers? Mine has a salsbury and from memory it bolted straight in. Ole havaloog tomorrow.

Had a look and the rear leaves are mounted outboard of the chasis on the 107 wagon (This is different to the 107 ute). A salsbury bolted straight into ours.

Yeah, that's the way a 107 wagon was built. The jump-up in the chassis longitudinals for the rear axle is also in different places - just behind the gearbox in 86s, 88s, 107s and 109 basics, but about in line with the spring hangers in 107 wagons.

Dan.
69 2A 88" pet4, 68 2B FC pet6.

Yep I belive Land Rover used the 107 SW chassis as the bases for the "new" series 2 109" with the rear spring hangers set out side the chassis rails & still using the up swept chassis main rails.
As for fitting the salsbury diff Iam going to get the chassis modifiyed as I want to be able to change diffs if it fails in the middle of no where so to speak.

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Originally Posted by Lost Landy

Yep I belive Land Rover used the 107 SW chassis as the bases for the "new" series 2 109" with the rear spring hangers set out side the chassis rails & still using the up swept chassis main rails.
As for fitting the salsbury diff Iam going to get the chassis modifiyed as I want to be able to change diffs if it fails in the middle of no where so to speak.

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It is very unlikely that the housing will fail. The only parts of a sals that would ever need replacing would normally be the bearings and seals.

If it was me, I would probably do the toyota centre conversion to a couple of SIIA SWB housings. Will make everything more than strong enough (front will be stronger) - and it may work out cheaper than getting the chassis modified and blue plated.