Thread: What are these Hubs??? from S3'75 109

Originally Posted by JDNSW

... Warn hubs seem to be rare on Series Landrovers, but were and are common on other four wheel drives, although obviously they were available. Anyone know why this is? ...

John

John

Back in the 1970's people's preference (at least in the LROCS) were the chunky early Warn hubs. At the same time Toyota were also offering the conical shaped Warn hubs on Land Cruisers. To counter this Land Rover in Australia made the Selectro brand (with the big black external knob) part of their accessory range. The result was that people would have FW hubs fitted at the dealer and got Selectro.

By the late 1970's Warn had stopped supplying the chunky hubs for Land Rovers in favour of a conical design similar to the ones on the Land Cruiser. These were not popular as the engaging mechanism was quite small and difficult to use at times.

My take on the picture in any case.

Diana