Betsy, my 67 s2a build.

Ok diesel van can be bought. Need to return gbox and transfer when removed. Will have to swap it over to diesel now. Its what i really wanted in the first place as water wont stop it as long as the intake is hi n dry. Water crossings in a petrol are a nightmare. Lots of prep work and one little drop in the right place and its stuck there. This is great. Now i just need a car trailer to pick it up. Anyone here in SA got one. I need to get it tomorrow morning as its the only time that is available to pick it up, coz my s3 rego runs out monday night and i wont be able to pay it for a couple months now.

Woohoo im happy again😆

Cheers Rod

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Ok dokey. Today with the help of a fellow LRRegSA member, Robert, i picked up the s3 diesel van. I fashioned a fan belt out of an ockey strap by undoing the clamp wire at both ends and removing the hooks. Then joined them together using the same clamp wires and, voila, a fan belt between the crank and fan as there is no alt. fitted. Then bolted and insulated the two wires from the alt. together and she cranked over. Squirt of "start ya bastard" and off she went. Noisy bugger of a thing. So we let her idle for a while and warm up a bit. Then came the job of removing it from the back yard from under a huge walnut tree. Not a job for the faint hearted. Not much manoevering room. 15 point turn and we got her out from under the tree and then she stalled. It would NOT restart. So the diagnostics began. Now I'm not a diesel mechanic, but i know a little bit about old school diesels. No fuel. So the search began. Plenty fuel in the tank. Nothing at the injector pump. So hand pumped the lift pump. Nothing. So the search continued. Cracked the outlet line. Zip. Searching the fuel line and i found another filter under the floor in front of the tank. I pressurised the fuel tank by blowing in the broken breather hose. Still nothing, but i noticed a drop of fuel in the middle of the plastic, (another great pommy idea), fuel lines. The fuel line had cracked just where it joins onto the steel pipe next to the joiner on the inlet of the filter in front of the tank. Sucking air. So i detatched the plastic line and fitted a piece of 1/4 rubber fuel hose over the break, and then started blowing in the tank again and finally i'm getting fuel to come thru. So i blow the fuel thru to the lift pump and then i prime the whole system and bleed the air out of the system. Its funny how ppl dont understand that a diesel wont run with air in its fuel lines. I cracked what looked like 2 bleed screws on the injector pump and bled the air out with the hand primer on the fuel pump. Then i got Robert to crank her over while i cracked the injector lines. She sprung into life and was running better than before. Great. Finally got the old girl on the trailer. Then we secured the roof and tub onto the chassis with a ratchet strap and did the same with the rear tailgate and doors, coz no latches and tailgate locks, with another ratchet strap. I secured the van onto the trailer with 2 more ratchet straps and a chain for Justin (case). Didn't get any pics coz left the phone at home, (i thought). Almost uneventful trip home, except for one of our new country men driving a new camry who thought it a good thing to scream up beside me while pulling up to a red light and cut in front of me and expect my s3 with loaded car trailer to stop on a dime. Reckon there was about 50thou clearance between my roo bar and his rear bumper. Dick head! And i let him know it too!! Where are those train horns when u need em, (certain 101 owner who shall remain nameless). Anyway got her home and in the driveway. Now the job starts. Gotta strip her down and part her out. Tub is stuffed. Roof and sides are good. Chassis seems ok. Couple repairs at the back. Gotta check the rear diff ratio as it was going a bit fast in low range first gear. Maybe it's got a 3.54 salisbury in the back?? Hope so :D. Straight to the (pool room) s2a. It has lower profile tyres fitted so who knows. I'll keep u all informed as to what i find out over the coming (years, weeks) days.

Cheers Rod


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SAVIOUR For ALL DIESEL ENGINES...


Cheers Rod
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Ok checked the diff...10x47...bugga. i had hoped, but not to be. Chassis is rusted where rear x member welded to rear rails. Bugga no.2.
Removed a whole heap of bits out the rear including a '71 ser2a rear bulkhead to suit tray top that had seat belt mounting brackets fitted. Also a couple doors with really rust free frames. Guess where they're going. Lots of galv tub cappings and rubbing strips. Got a couple reversing lampsin Good nick and the protector plates. And a truck cab roof in reasonable condition with holes where the tropical roof was fitted. Got floor plates and toolbox lids and catches. And a set of seats that a couple need recovering. I need them so i can get rid of the commodore front seats in my s3. Its a pity he wants the gbox back. Feels really good. No speedo so i dont know how many kms the motor may have done. Im happy with my purchase. Very broke now.

Cheers Rod

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But at least you've sorted the engine issue quickly. There's always a bright side. :)

Sell on what you don't want as quickly as you can to get a few dollars back.

Today i started stripping the s3 diesel i got for the engine replacement for Betsy. I removed the roof and sides. Removed the damaged rear tub. Gotta strip that first coz got nowhere to put it. Gonna have heaps of clean alloy for the scrap yard. Next will be the doors and front wings. Couple pics. Oh i slashed my hand on some sharpened up panel. I reckon they pay someone specially, to go around when they are making the vehicle, to sharpen up the bloody edges on these things.

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Hmmm a thought just occurred to me, how am i going to supply vacuum to my brake booster? Diesels dont have vacuum in the inlet manifold for such things. Can anyone tell me does the 200 tdi run a vac pump of the engine or the back of the alternator, and if the engine, where is it driven from? Also the diesel engine i have runs the exhaust out from the side of the manifold and exits through the lhf wing. Can i still run the petrol motor extractors or not? Its starting to stress me out now. Maybe i can run a turbo setup of a 200 or 300tdi? Anyone tried or done this yet? Please let me know.

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Hello Rod,

Having a Series 3 diesel that I wanted to upgrade to a dual circuit system with a booster I have been down this road myself. You have two options. 1) buying a Peugeot vacuum pump that drives off a pulley from the fan belt. or 2) get a 4DBI or similar Isuzu alternator with a vacuum pump fitted to it.

There is a member here who wrote a thread on the Peugeot option - the part is also the same as an English car.

I decided to go the Isuzu way - then the clutch died more than just the hydraulics and I bought another Land Rover that was in better condition.

I will try to find the thread. It might have been a blue camper from memory. Just checked it was a member by the name of "Phin" I replied to him in 2014 and that is the last time Phin posted .....

The thread is under the subject Series III Dutch Camper and the part about the Peugeot pump starts at this link https://www.aulro.com/afvb/series-ii...ml#post1838007

I found it was a cheaper option to go for the Isuzu alternator with the vacuum pump.

Oh BTW the later Series III diesel - a bit after 1976 did have a butterfly valve integrated into the system that provided vacuum for the booster. However, they wore out and become unreliable. Now it would be extremely hard to buy parts for.


Kind Regards
Lionel

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Originally Posted by Lionelgee

Hello Rod,

Having a Series 3 diesel that I wanted to upgrade to a dual circuit system with a booster I have been down this road myself. You have two options. 1) buying a Peugeot vacuum pump that drives off a pulley from the fan belt. or 2) get a 4DBI or similar Isuzu alternator with a vacuum pump fitted to it.

There is a member here who wrote a thread on the Peugeot option - the part is also the same as an English car.

I decided to go the Isuzu way - then the clutch died more than just the hydraulics and I bought another Land Rover that was in better condition.

I will try to find the thread. It might have been a blue camper from memory. Just checked it was a member by the name of "Phin" I replied to him in 2014 and that is the last time Phin posted .....

The thread is under the subject Series III Dutch Camper and the part about the Peugeot pump starts at this link https://www.aulro.com/afvb/series-ii...ml#post1838007

I found it was a cheaper option to go for the Isuzu alternator with the vacuum pump.

Oh BTW the later Series III diesel - a bit after 1976 did have a butterfly valve integrated into the system that provided vacuum for the booster. However, they wore out and become unreliable. Now it would be extremely hard to buy parts for.

Kind Regards
Lionel

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Just on a side note Phin was last on 25/1/17;)

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Originally Posted by rangieman

Just on a side note Phin was last on 25/1/17;)

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Hello Rangieman,

That is good to know. :)

It must have just been the end of the thread then. It would be great to have an update of the completion of the work and any adventures experienced - since it is a camper!

Hint Hint Phin :p

Kind Regards
Lionel