Thread: Land Rover 109 Series 2A LWB Resto

Can anybody recommend a place to get parts & packs for my Landy resto? It looks as tho it’s been sitting around for years, so it’ll need almost new everything. The frame looks good although it’s a little grotty. Will be used off road so not really looking to keep it original Located in Victoria, Australia
I'm looking for a part ID manual to order parts for the resto, l have a series 3 parts catalogue but am unsure if they are common to both series.
l have looked for the VIN on the vehicle in the usual places with no success.

It's got a Rover Australia sticker on the engine side bulkhead.

Chassis plate id's it as a 109 series 2A
It also has a body number and serial number plates located inside the cab on the drivers side of the bulkhead ..
BodyNo LRSXXXXX
SER No 109XXXXX


Can l ID the vehicle from the plates and do the series 2A share same parts as Series 3?

Series 2a, made in Australia, as this seems to be, should have the chassis number stamped on the LH rear spring shackle mount, that is on the vertical surface facing outwards, just above the top of the shackle at the back of the LH rear spring.

However, as Colin points out, a lot of the parts are interchangeable between Series 2, 2a and 3, at least as assemblies (and even a few bits from Series 1.. So you need to check which part you actually have. A lot of these sort of questions can be answered by people here, given a picture, or they can tell you how to identify what you are looking at.

And you need to be aware that Rover and then Leyland used what they called "continuous improvement" so that changes were made not only at model changes. For Series 2a major changes also were often, but not always reflected by a change in the letter suffix on the end of the chassis number. And changes made in Australia are not always reflected in the parts manuals supplied, partly by the need to maximise Australian content, but also to use stocks of the older part, so that changes may happen later than stated in the parts book, or, indeed did not happen. Nut this picture is confused by the interchangeability of parts.

To give a couple of examples - I run a 1970 2a. The front springs, alternator, cab, doors and seats come from a late Series 3. The speedo is also from a late Series 3. The wheels are from a mid 1980s 110. Part of the throttle linkage is from a Series 2, as is the bonnet and spare wheel carrier.

Today it is very unlikely that any Series Landrover has all the "correct" parts. In some cases these are unavailable, or the "incorrect" part is easier/cheaper to get, but in many cases the newer one is simply better. But beware of pitfalls - for example, fuel gauges changed in 1967, and are not interchangeable, even though they look the same. Similarly, tierod ends changed with Series 3 and are not interchangeable (and fatal accidents have resulted). In both these cases the newer parts can be used if other related parts are changed. This emphasises that you need to identify what you have, not just go on the manual, although this is usually a starting point.