Betsy, my 67 s2a build.

Forgot the pics again. Trying too hard.⬇⬇

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Painted the parts. Looking good.

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Looking good rod. Love the bbq drier too[emoji106] [emoji106]

Ok bit of an update, i got the parts today, that i didnt think i needed, from heystee conversions via british off road, for the rear disc conversion. 2 nice new caliper mount plates. They came with bolts and a small crescent shaped spacer plate. I mounted the plate on the diff to see how it fitted up. Bloody fantastic. I dont need the spacer plate. Must be for an earlier type series conversion. Looks good. Still need to clean up the calipers and some other stuff. Couple pics below. ⬇

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Ok been a while, ive been running a service station for 7 weeks while the owner was away in Europe so nothing got done at all. Today i made up the brake pipes for the rear calipers modeled on the ones that were fitted to the defender calipers that i have. The original pipes were too long and werent made to go around u bolts. So i made up new pipes and routed them about where the originals went behind the protection plates on the back of the diff and up to the defender tee piece and then to a new longer braided hose which will fit to the chassis bracket. Still need to clean up the calipers and then paint the diff satin black then install it to the chassis and springs. I hand bent the pipe bends and double flared the pipe ends.

Couple pics⏬

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Did a bit of painting today with satin black. Now i gotta get some caliper paint and do them and the hubs...maybe😆😆

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Couple pics ⤵

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On Wednesday i decided that the **itpart hub seals i got with the bearing kits were not really up to the job of keeping in the grease/oil and the road grime out seeing as they are only a single lip seal with a part number of RTC 3510 on them. Ive had problems before with this brand of seals. I was told that this is the seal i should be using. I was thinking that these seals would be ok if i was using drum brakes as the brake drum would offer protection to the seal, but because i will be running disc brakes there would be no protection from road hazards and grime. So i was looking into getting double lip seals, but no one could tell me if thier seals were double lip or not. I would have to order one in and pay for it just to see. I went to our local CBC and they told me the same thing, and at $15.00 each, l wasn't going to order one in (from Sydney) to look at it. So i went to my local Repco store and the very knowlegable, fully qualified mechanic, Gabrielle, helped me out. Instead of ordering the hub seal to suit a series 2a land rover, she ordered a seal by measurements only and found that they had over 150 in stock at the warehouse. She rang a buddy there and got him to look at one of the seals, and found out that they were indeed double lipped seals. So i ordered 4 seals at $5.00 each. Picked them up today and was very happy. I checked them on a stub axle and in a hub. Perfect. The part number for the repco bought seals is rs207 or kelpro 97207. The seal quality is heaps better than the **itpart ones i've got.
Couple pics below. (I hope they worked out).

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Pic 2 and 3 is kelpro
Pic 1 and 4 is **itpart

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Couple more pics below.

No1 left seal kelpro right seal **itpart
No2 and 3 **itpart seal


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Good work mate. Yes, the Britpart rubber products leave a bit to be desired, but some of thier other stuff is ok.

Hi Rod,
Drum brake conversion looks great.
Is it common to only do the fronts ?
Would the seals be the same on my mid 70's series 3 swb with drum brakes ?
If so I will drop down to repco and get 4. Maybe they also do the wheel bearings.
Thanks

Whitehillbilly