1969 s2a I think

**Thunderbolt** · 21st December 2014, 08:48 AM

Thanks for that they aren't on the car anyway, just on a spare diff i bought. I thought they looked a bit ungainly.
Cheers

**dandlandyman** · 22nd December 2014, 04:46 PM

I think I have an ex-PMG vehicle too, but it's a 73 S3. I really don't have anything more to go off than the fact that it's always been red and had a big gal steel Pantech on the back. I haven't recorded the chassis number yet and I'll have to get someone else to post some photos of it for me (Luddite).

The Pantech was removed by a previous owner so, since I don't have a good tray to put on it, I'm fitting a body tub which I got off a rusted-out ex-NT Government Survey S2A just to make it a useful ute.

Dan.
69 2A 88" pet4 (still in disguise), 68 2B FC pet6 (still resting quietly), 74 S3 109" pet4, plus 31 other parts/project cars.

**Thunderbolt** · 22nd December 2014, 08:44 PM

Hi Dan, I'd say a Landy is a good car for a Luddite lol. There is a post on here from Shonky with some pics of what looks like s3 PMG cars from back in the day. Mines got the same tail light set up but if yours had a pantech on it I suppose you haven't got tail lights anymore.I wonder if that was original?
Cheers

**Phil B** · 23rd December 2014, 07:30 AM

What a great thread !!
Very interesting history Diana.

Please keep it going along with the resto Thunderbolt.
Regards,
Phil.

**pk.hoarder** · 28th December 2014, 12:40 PM

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Powerlock or S.U.E. hubs are something I would be getting rid of. Outside the problems of FWH, the SUE hubs have a two half moon cams (inside the slots you can see) that engage into a star shaped flange connected to the axle halfshaft. With both half circles to the outside, the star can turn inside the housing unlocking the hub. With either or both of the half circles turned in locked the star from rotating engaging the hub. The problem is that with only one cam locked all the weight of the drive was on a very small area of the housing and the housings were well known for failure. They are also an excessively large protruding hubs vulnerable to damage from rocks and gutters.

My recommendation, chuck them and fit original flanges. (They would not have been fitted by the PMG,)

I agree with that - my IIA still has these and they are awful for coming unlocked when you really need them. Once unlocked they can be near impossible to lock them again. I pulled mine apart and the cams were worn, will replace them with a different type of FWH.

It seems they are an American design made under licence by Shute Upton - original design Cutlas Tool, Illinois. There is an article on them here Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Hubs But Were Afraid to Ask

**Thunderbolt** · 29th December 2014, 09:08 PM

Hi all, just been getting the guages to work reliably instead of every now and then haha. Thanks to the trusty multimeter I tracked it down to dirty contacts on the fuses, it didn't help when I kept getting zapped from the door every now and then and thinking there must be a live wire touching somewhere when in fact it was the thongs I was wearing ha! I noticed along the way that its got an LC head on it even though engine number indicates HC. The guy did say the head had work so I wonder if it was an exchange unit and no one paid attention. I notice the speedo has kmh stickers over the mph I wonder if the distance still reads miles? (The glass isn't busted just looks like in photo) and does anyone know how to stop these type mirrors flopping around? (See photo)
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