Rebuilding Sid

More messy jobs while waiting for new bearing to arrive from Craddocks... getting used to this.

Fun stuff! This was the air filter off the second S2a pulled from the field... cleaned up nicely

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managed to get the sand blast cabinet working as they do on the adverts...finally. I've remade the pick up tube out of copper pipe with 5x the number of holes in it, works much better.

Next challenge for this evening is making new lock washers for the u-bolts. they seem to be mild steel which makes it simple enough. Fiddly though.

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Busy few days. First up the springs are now finished and ready for fitting. Boys have been helping all day which has made for a great day.

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We’ve the embarked on the fun of fitting the chassis bushes, several hours later and several broken tools I’ve managed to get one half way in. Snapping threaded rod for fun.... given up, poly bushes have been ordered for the chassis.

So attention has moved to the front end.... with lads stripping the engine bay

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And taking out their first engine. Engine crane was a bargain find on gumtree, it’s a beast!

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Chassis number....some help would be appreciated.

I have some old SA rego papers for Sid and these don’t have a VIN or chassis number on them, it’s just marked N/A [emoji1787]

I have a plate inside the cab which marks it as a 65

With the front end stripped, I went hunting with a wire brush and found some numbers on the right front spring hanger

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Only three are visible, photo not great but they are “166” , these don’t match the bulkhead number.

Any ideas?

Looks more like 186? Still no help though sorry.

Just an assembly stamping. Ive seen a few over the years, usually on rhf spring hanger. Seen them on s2a and s3 same place. Not used for vehicle identification but internal numbering system in the assembly plants

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Just an assembly stamping. Ive seen a few over the years, usually on rhf spring hanger. Seen them on s2a and s3 same place. Not used for vehicle identification but internal numbering system in the assembly plants

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Makes sense... so if the chassis number is not here, any suggestions where else it might be.

Where ever you want to stamp it... 😇😉

For a CKD it should be on the left hand rear spring hanger(passenger side)

My 2a military import had number stamped on front right Spring hanger hidden under bitumen spray I chipped off during chassis refurb

Whoever first registered the vehicle here stamped a number on the rear left spring hanger unaware of the original, a Calvin search of this number identified it as a Series 1[bighmmm]

Calvin search of factory number stamping said home market 2a 1971 which corresponded to rego sticker(date anyway)

Make what you like of this and Homestars post[bigwhistle]

Cheers Paul

Springs....

in repco picking up the poly bushes for Sid (in stock would you believe), as we were looking through the suspension catagory came across this in the clearance items

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Rear heavy duty leaf spring $60 (Part # is in the pic but its A9267188). They are in a QLD branch but a pair including freight ($14!!) to Adelaide comes in at $134 for a pair of new leaf springs.

There are now 7 left in stock....

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Springs....

in repco picking up the poly bushes for Sid (in stock would you believe), as we were looking through the suspension catagory came across this in the clearance items

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Rear heavy duty leaf spring $60 (Part # is in the pic but its A9267188). They are in a QLD branch but a pair including freight ($14!!) to Adelaide comes in at $134 for a pair of new leaf springs.

There are now 7 left in stock....

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Are these for lwb or swb??