My "new" 56

[Jcrowe69]

Hi All,
I'm new to this forum and have just bought a 56 series 1 that I'll pick-up between Christmas and new year, I'm not looking to do a full resto just get on the road and use it mainly for running around and a bit of beach driving. Mostly it looks OK, it has a Holden 179 that I'll replace, (maybe with a 200Tdi minus the turbo) and replace the diffs with range rover units so I can keep up with the traffic.
I need a few bits and I was wondering if you guys might have some parts in the dark corners of your sheds that you might want to part with. I'm getting rid of the cage over the roof and so are looking for a front bumper, doesn't need to be in excellent nick just general straight. It's also missing the front grill and the seats, If anyone has the seat
bases of a later series that would be good.
The big one is the brake pedal assembly has been replaces with a later series unit, does anyone have the full brake assembly from pedal to master cylinder?
Cheers
Jason

[crackers]

Interesting find and interesting plans for her. I'm looking forward to following the journey

Rather a Landy heavy environment she's currently in. What is it, a wreckers? Farm?

[russellrovers]

Hi All,
I'm new to this forum and have just bought a 56 series 1 that I'll pick-up between Christmas and new year, I'm not looking to do a full resto just get on the road and use it mainly for running around and a bit of beach driving. Mostly it looks OK, it has a Holden 179 that I'll replace, (maybe with a 200Tdi minus the turbo) and replace the diffs with range rover units so I can keep up with the traffic.
I need a few bits and I was wondering if you guys might have some parts in the dark corners of your sheds that you might want to part with. I'm getting rid of the cage over the roof and so are looking for a front bumper, doesn't need to be in excellent nick just general straight. It's also missing the front grill and the seats, If anyone has the seat
bases of a later series that would be good.
The big one is the brake pedal assembly has been replaces with a later series unit, does anyone have the full brake assembly from pedal to master cylinder?
Cheers
Jason

pm sent

[Jcrowe69]

Interesting find and interesting plans for her. I'm looking forward to following the journey

Rather a Landy heavy environment she's currently in. What is it, a wreckers? Farm?

I don't know, but will find out when I go down to pick her up, Dave who I'm buying it off is restoring an 80 inch on his farm near Goulburn and it looks like he definitely has a few Landy's lying around...

[Jcrowe69]

pm sent

Hi Russell,
I didn't seem to get your PM, could you resend it please?
Cheers
Jason

[Jcrowe69]

Well, The whole Family & I went down to pick up our "new"landy" today and brought her back to Sydney. We have a VW diesel van and I was genuinely surprised how well it hauled the S1 on a car trailer, chewed through the fuel I guess "two bricks" towing "three bricks" isn't exactly fuel efficient. Anyhow Dave who I bought it off has a shed that needs to be seen to be believed, I think there was about 5 80" landys around plus a bunch more 86".
After buying this one sight unseen it is better than expected, chassis is solid, body straight gearbox is good. The cage and bull bar are the first thing to come off tomorrow....
However, no brakes (nil) which makes for exciting unloading off a trailer declining into our driveway. I asked my wife to take a photo of the neighbours fence in case I needed to make a new one...missed reverse in low range and two hands on the handbrake saved me!
So after only a few hours, brakes are number one issue, Dave gave me the correct pedal and all the original linkages are still installed, however the previous owner has installed a series 2a/3 pedal assembly and on the passenger side a remote brake booster. The original brake fluid canister is still installed and so I'm wondering if I hook up the original pedal assembly, fluid canister into the remote booster to improve the brakes, or just ditch it and go back to the original brake set-up?
It has a holden 179 which I plan to ditch next year, probably for a 200tdi minus the turbo, interesting it also has duel fuel tanks which I haven't figured out the plumbing yet, but they don't leak!!!
Tomorrow is pulling together the list of bits needed...
Cheers
Jason

[crackers]

Ahh, the foolishness begins

[Jcrowe69]

Yup, bang on Crackers!!
Had a good day in the sun today, removed all of the external & internal roll cages plus all of the metal bolted/welded on over the last 60 years, I reckon she is at least 300kg lighter. Also got out the series 2a Brake pedal assembly and put the right brake pedal in. The original master cylinder is still there but seized so it needs to come out tomorrow, I can't move it around much without any brakes.
Also cracked the wheel nuts, two days soaking in WD40 and hanging off 3ft of water pipe did the trick!!
Cheers
Jason

[klonk]

Hi Jason,

That a nice looking wagon you've got, don't mind the colour scheme either.

That bullbar etc has worked well, panels are nice and straight.

I'd keep the upgraded brakes, I had a 2a with a 161 holden and car diffs fitted and standard brakes, they were fine most of the time but I had a couple of situations where I wished they were better.

Steve

[Jcrowe69]

Hi Klonk,
The plates on it are JOC330, so I reckon it was re-registered in the late 70's after an upgrade to look like the series 3 Game at the time, every thing is yellow and black. She's a '55 based on the plate but has a later series rear axle and the Holden 179, the dash is a birds nest of extra gauges/switches which all need to go but apart from that, there is no rot in the chassis and the panels are straight. The bulkhead is like swiss cheese with all the extra dials/ wrong pedals/bit of rust etc. Once it stops the bulkhead is the focus....