Thread: Bought a series2... I think.

Originally Posted by bemm52

Looking great.........if your game enough to park on a pebblecret drive you have done an outstanding job.....hats off to you sir

I recon you'll romp through the inspection

Cheers Paul

Oh the driveway is already ruined. I wouldn't be parking it on a nice driveway! Haha.
Leaks are minimal but I left in all the genuine land rover ones.

Two reflectors are required, one each side. On the 110/Defender these are about six inches above the crossmember and a little to the outside of centre on the panel each side of the tailgate.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Two reflectors are required, one each side. On the 110/Defender these are about six inches above the crossmember and a little to the outside of centre on the panel each side of the tailgate.

Fitted.

Waiting to hear back for a time for the inspection.

Spoke to Shannon's about insurance for once it's registered. $10000 insurance for limited use(twice a week) is 250 bucks a year. Pretty good price I figured.

That Matt/Satin paint looks the shiz! Wish I'd gone that way on mine...

Senior moment... I thought John was referring to a particular taillight lens with a reflector inside, to multiply the bulb strength. Easy to fit a couple of rectangular ones if that's all they require.

Excellent result by the way, I must get back to mine, it's been off the boil these last few months...

Is there a reference to the height of the accelerator pedal from the firewall/floor? Mine seems uncomfortably high but any lower and you wouldn't be able to move the arm on the carby all the way without pushing the pedal through the floor. It's something I could get used to but would rather be sure it's something I need to be getting used to...

Originally Posted by OneOff

That Matt/Satin paint looks the shiz! Wish I'd gone that way on mine...

Senior moment... I thought John was referring to a particular taillight lens with a reflector inside, to multiply the bulb strength. Easy to fit a couple of rectangular ones if that's all they require.

Excellent result by the way, I must get back to mine, it's been off the boil these last few months...

As much as I like the matt paint I am told it will fade in a couple of years and require a respray to keep the colour looking good.

Yours is looking almost done. There couldnt be too much left.

There were several different tail lights fitted to Series Landrovers. All of them have the centre part of the lens moulded so that as well as allowing light through, it acts as a corner reflector* for incident light. Similar reflectors are incorporated in most tail light lenses for most cars, although some have separate reflectors. Reflectors are required for all vehicles, and, in fact, this is one of the few equipment rules that was retrospective - introduced in about 1952 from memory.


* Corner reflector - light entering the corner of a cube from inside is reflected back the way it came. This effect is used by having the inside of the lens moulded into a number of small cubic corners. The refractive index of the plastic is such that any light entering from the outside face of the lens is totally internally reflected on these faces, and directed back towards its source, coloured by the red lens.

The reflectors fitted by singlecell work exactly the same way.

The accelerator pedal height is pretty much dictated by the movement needed at the carburettor. But there is an adjustable stop bolt under the pedal, which can be adjusted to have the full pedal position closer to the floor, in turn allowing the pedal to be adjusted to so that this corresponds to full throttle. Note that the foot pressure should be against this stop as the limit, not trying to stretch the linkage or pull the lever off the carburettor!

A couple of points - the bell crank assembly on the bracket inside the LH mudguard is a possible source of lost motion. Check it is assembled correctly. Similarly, the link from there to the carburettor is adjustable. If it is a non-original carburettor, you may need to adjust the leverage to give more movement at the carburettor for the same movement of the pedal. This may be most easily done by drilling an extra hole in the bell crank lever for the link back to the linkage on the firewall.

Well good news and not so good news.
Goods news is it passed the road worthy.
Not so good news is I noticed on the drive to the Dept of transportation the temp gauge was starting to rise. Turned around and went home instead. I suspect this is because there is no thermostat and too much of the water is going via the bypass. I totally forgot about getting back to fitting one. Issue being I have the old style housing and don't seem to be able to find one place that sells the three parts required to be able to fit a new style thermostat. Anyone have an idea where I can get the parts from? I was also thinking for the short term couldn't the bypass hose be removed and the pipes capped off?

I believe the part numbers I need are 530476 527109 516059. Craddocks seem to have all but 527109 which seems hard to source.

Edit - also have noticed the belt is a tad loose. Might get a slightly short one tomorrow and try that before doing anything too drastic.

My suspicion is that the belt being loose has more to do with it than the lack of thermostat, although I can't say I have actually run one without a thermostat.