Thread: Correct Me If Im Wrong - Series II?

Originally Posted by ianyates

...From this very useful website; Clifton Scientific Text Services, the Netherlands
Click on the LR VIN button down the lower left side.

CalVIN is O.K but not accurate for the suffix letters of the forward control models. CalVIN merely assumes that the suffix letter applies to both bonneted control and forward control series Land Rovers.

I use Classic Land Rovers in Norway. Classic Land Rovers

Diana

Originally Posted by Jock The Rock

Gday

just checkin? this is a series II right or is it a IIa?

I reckon its a S2a

Here's a picture of my S2 inside - note the wind out vents and no horn button on the steering wheel (like a series 1)



Have a look at Treads S2 also, for comparison



Some more threads on S2's

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/series-2-2...e-s2-bits.html

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/series-2-2...series-ii.html

G'day Jock the Rock

Your Vehicle with that chassis No reads as a Series 2a,RH Drive CKD (Complete Knocked Down) Kit,which would have been shipped to Aust and assembled at Pressed Metal Corp. at Enfield in Sydney the actual number reads as 1961 short wheel base(88)Basic, and is the 03922 second, vehicle produced in that year. it is also Chassis Suffix "B", the engine number is on the flat section just ahead of the exhaust manifold front branch on the angled bit, and will be something like 241-----
similar style to the chasis No.

It would have had a 2.25 petrol motor fitted. and have been Positive Earth Electrics
Source: Master Parts book chassis reference.
cheers

Originally Posted by Sleepy

... Have a look at Treads S2 also, for comparison...

The post 1966 steering column makes it a bit more awkward, and some people like the S2 screw vent regulators over the S2a type and retrofitted them but it looks to be an S2.

Diana

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

The post 1966 steering column makes it a bit more awkward, and some people like the S2 screw vent regulators over the S2a type and retrotitted them but it looks to be an S2.

Diana

Good point Diana - I felt it may have had a later steering wheel/column fitted

G'day Folks

That looks mighty like a series 2a up to suffix "D" steering column to me and with the correct wheel and horn button.

cheers

Originally Posted by UncleHo

G'day Folks

That looks mighty like a series 2a up to suffix "D" steering column to me and with the correct wheel and horn button.

cheers

Uncle Ho

We're talking about the second pic - that column shouldn't be with that dash and those vent regulators. Should they?

Diana

This whole thread should point out that it is impossible to identify the date of a Series 2/2a (or any Series 2-3) Landrover from details such as dash, steering wheel, vent controls etc. All of them, in fact almost all parts, are interchangeable, at least as complete assemblies, all the way from the first Series 2 to the last Series 3, and there would be very few Series 2/2a or, indeed Series 3) that have not had some foreign, usually, but not necessarily, later parts fitted.

For example, my own Series 2a has cab, doors, seats, instruments, alternator bracket and steering wheel from a Series 3, as is the distributor. Two of the wheels are from a much older 2a, as is the rear axle.

The only way of positively identifying the model is from the chassis number stamped on the chassis.

John