Thread: How many civilian Forward Controls are there.

I like this thread. I think FC landies are really cool!

Don't know why, ugliest vehicles on the road.... always had a fascination for them though!

2a and 2b look like such classic old English Lorries!

Originally Posted by mrapocalypse

I like this thread. I think FC landies are really cool!

Don't know why, ugliest vehicles on the road.... always had a fascination for them though!

2a and 2b look like such classic old English Lorries!

Yup, have to agree with that sentiment.

Not even as easy to work on as old English lorries and fall over pretty much as often as the Defenders and Discos do these days.

Diana

trying to think of the Props guy in Sydney, he had a blonde beard and he had an old blue 2 door Rangey parked on the street for years. Someone smashed into it and he just let it sit there rotting! he was more up towards the cat and fiddle end of Balmain/Rozelle.

He had a warehouse in Rozelle full of movie stuff too. The old guy who ran the junk shop across the road from the Sackville hotel would have knwon him but this is seriously going back to about 1998.

The FC was still in baby Cack yellow, not hand painted, it was in the back yard under piles of timber and junk. You really had to want to see it to know it was there.

try the lanes behind hampton, Birchgrove streets and king lane. there's a six foot corrugated iron fence with a dirty big landy in there. The house runs between darling Street and the lane. Not sure if it's a dead end but it was hard to find even as a local!

Good Luck.

I meant no disrespect to your land rover skills, masterchief. Quite the opposite - it's an awesome looking truck. I'm just too much of a nitpicker sometimes.
Diana, I actually would like to have a spare set to suit the 2b - are they at all prone to breaking? Or needn't I worry? My parts shopping list is so extensive that I may have to find a whole wreck, preferably in the NT. I know, that'll be in the aisle between the hen's teeth and the rocking horse manure.
Still, I live in hope...

Originally Posted by dandlandyman

I meant no disrespect to your land rover skills, masterchief. Quite the opposite - it's an awesome looking truck. I'm just too much of a nitpicker sometimes.
Diana, I actually would like to have a spare set to suit the 2b - are they at all prone to breaking? Or needn't I worry? My parts shopping list is so extensive that I may have to find a whole wreck, preferably in the NT. I know, that'll be in the aisle between the hen's teeth and the rocking horse manure.
Still, I live in hope...

None taken,i think the thing that might be throwing you is that they arent F/C rims so the track looks narrower and is narrower than it should.due to the rims.

Originally Posted by dandlandyman

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...Diana, I actually would like to have a spare set to suit the 2b - are they at all prone to breaking? Or needn't I worry? ...

The hens teeth comment was pretty much on the ball for the S2B halfshafts, the only spares I have are S2a ENV.

The yokes and the Spicer joint on the front halfshafts are prone to failure. Particularly a problem these days as you cant get Spicer joints without the grease pathways.

Now if you are interested, I had Mal Story of Maxi-Drive make up a set of halfshafts in S2B size. I had to send him the S2A axles, and an ENV diff hemisphere side gear for the prototype to be completed. The successor company Hi-Tough Engineering also of Carrera in Qld should have the designs and brooches to cut the splines, so should be able to make them up for you. For the front they are specials with hybridised halfshafts that go from the ENV diff to Stage 1 swivels and CV joints.

Hope this helps.
Diana

It wasn't the track that threw me. It just looks like it had the stiffener bar under the front diff like late normal control 2As have. My 68 2b doesn't have it. Of course Land Rover were quite proficient at running mods throughout production.

Originally Posted by dandlandyman

It wasn't the track that threw me. It just looks like it had the stiffener bar under the front diff like late normal control 2As have. My 68 2b doesn't have it. Of course Land Rover were quite proficient at running mods throughout production.

Dan

You are spot on there about the reinforcings on the front axles, neither of my 1968 models have it (January 33100095a and June 33100161b) and the December 1967 has (had*) the wrong front end. What is interesting is that the VIN of the vehicle in the pic is 33100507e which makes it the 17th last export 2b made and it is likely that one of the suffix letters "C" through "E" equates to the modification of the front (and rear) axle assembly.

In fact, for the restoration of the correct front end to the 33100105a vehicle I acquired a pair of axle housings from Master Chief's dad, the front of which had a 6260**** serial number (where it should have had 3260**** for RHD 6cyl S2B ) and the reinforcings on both front and rear housings.



* No need to guess which housing I am keeping for my camper project vehicle. Which is O.K. the axle assembly that the Dec '67 vehicle is getting comes from a vehicle with a VIN 10 numbers earlier and left the factory 28 days later in Jan '68.

Diana