Thread: Barney - a 1958 Series II

Originally Posted by 1950landy

There is a guy in WA who sells the indicator switches under vintage LR parts , he goes under the name JIMMY THE PARROT , he also sells vintage Mini parts & has trafficators to suit LR's

Thanks I ask around to find out where he is

Jimmy The Parrot sounds like he should be called Jimmy the Bowerbird & sounds like a Damon Runyon character.


Re Spring^^^^

The spring on my Zenith (P/n 35 on the dwng) goes back to a small anchor point on the bulkhead & it does seem to be a quite heavy spring, a bit like one from a side Spring Mattress. This was in situ when I got her. Right or wrong I don't know.

I have always thought it was a little too strong, but it suffices & does stop you "putting your foot flat to the floor" too easily/accidentally because of the tension. Maybe that is what it is meant to do, stop the foot bouncing on the pedal.

Originally Posted by 4bee

Jimmy The Parrot sounds like he should be called Jimmy the Bowerbird & sounds like a Damon Runyon character.


Re Spring^^^^

The spring on my Zenith (P/n 35 on the dwng) goes back to a small anchor point on the bulkhead & it does seem to be a quite heavy spring, a bit like one from a side Spring Mattress. This was in situ when I got her. Right or wrong I don't know.

I have always thought it was a little too strong, but it suffices & does stop you "putting your foot flat to the floor" too easily/accidentally because of the tension. Maybe that is what it is meant to do, stop the foot bouncing on the pedal.

I had a look on Vintage Mini Parts Ebay looks like he only has white switches to suit Austin A30 at the moment. Jimmy is a bit of a parrot, I got a set of points off him once & the box turned up I a shoe box because that was the size box Aust Post were charging him to send it. Just his way of having a go at Aust Post. His has a lot of parts to fit British vehicles which also fit Land Rovers.

Peter

I am also trying to get a good look on the horn / indicator front. (I decided against upgrading to the horn in the centre of the steering wheel.)

An army series 2 I saw had a switch mounted on the dash. I will dig out a photo.

My proposed approach is to try and mount both on the steering column. Attached is a photo I saw on eBay I think of someone who was selling his series 2.

What do you think of this look?

horn and blinker.jpgAlso - late series 1 had the horn button on the separate bracket (so Noddy probably has one).

Cheers
Angus

As you never know when you will need the horn in anger, but with respect, if it was mine I would get it back to the centre of the steering wheel
Times have moved on since the "S1 slow traffic old days" & if you do need it then you won't want to be faffing around trying to locate the button on the dash & probably behind the steering wheel at that moment.

IMHO.

I may be wrong but I thought the S2 steering was not set up to have the horn button in the centre as the inner column is not hollow to run the wires through & had it on the bracket on the side of the column.

Depends how authentic you want it be, but I would run the wires down the outside of the steering tube & enclose them neatly which you would need to do anyway. It may need a hole drilled strategically.

Safety has to beat authenticity in my book.

You are correct, the shaft is not hollow.
The supply wire runs up the outside of the steering column to a collar which the hub contact runs on. The button then earths it onto the steering shaft - at least that's how I've done mine.

Much easier to type that than it was to work out...