Thread: Embarrassment

Originally Posted by banjo

The best quote i have so for is $618 ish..
Do you have a towbar Jim could hire a car float ..

I'm still looking cause its realy to good a buy for us not to get..

Yeah, a car carrying trailor would be the go. Unfortunately my car does not have a tow bar, anyrate I think it is a bit small to be towing that weight. Do you know any body with a Holden or Falcon or similiar, we could hire a car carrying trailor and I will drive down, maybe Drifter would be happy to put me up for the night and I can load the Series 2A onto the trailor and I can drive back next day. Don't forget I am on holidays now for two weeks.

Still thinking on it........when you factor in cost of petrol and hiring charges, to bring it up as I suggested....... $600 odd bucks to have it freighted up, does seem reasonable!!

Happy to help where I can!!!!!!

Glad you got all the pics.

Note the glovebox?

This one came with all the 'deluxe' fittings - including that bonnet. There are vents in the roof so the kids can have a stream of air back there, even when it is raining.

All the window seals have been replaced (you can see in a couple of the pictures where the left back window was removed while the seals were replaced).

From memory i has new universals n one of the prop shafts - the other shaft felt pretty good. New main pinion seal on the diff. New handbrake shoes.

I changed the engine oil and filter - the old stuff was pretty manky. The right hand manifold had a hole and 5 cracks in it - I had it welded up but the front pipe studs were pretty bad - so I have a replacement manifold that will be in it. (I'll let you install that - it's a terrible job holding the manifold with one hand, the gasket with your feet and doing up the bolts...

I have a heap of stuff that just looks like garage crap that will be in the back of it. It's actually some of the old door liners that the previous owner used for templates to make the new liners - and there is some other bits of the metalwork for the deluxe kit - some is spare, some is I dunno

New vent seals and, actually, new insect screens on the vents.

By the battery you will find a relay - that is the spotty relay - and it activates from a switch on the dash - only when the headlights are on full beam.

As you can see, there is no fan on the front of the engine - no room! There is an electric fan on the front of the radiator - you can see the bolts in one of the pics. The fan is thermostatically operated. I have a spare fan thermostat here somewhere.

Thinking of spares... I have a brand new unused brake master cylinder here that won't be of any use to me. Arrr hell, I'll throw in the brand new brake booster, too.

I'll be removing the D1 wheels, the UHF radio and the spots. I'll leave the 'defender' windscreen washers (operated by the pushbutton in the middle of the dash).

I am completely deaf in one ear so I put a remote speaker for the UHF up top behind the driver (by the interior light) and hid all the wiring - I won't remove it - you may find it handy to listen to the CB chatter at highway speed.

Thinking of interior light... the panel light switch on the dash is now a 2 position switch - and the second position lights up 2 interior lights - one above the middle front seat and the other at the inside of the rear door. All wires also hidden

I ran 3 wires up the middle of the windscreen (see if you can see them in the pics). One is the interior light wire, one is a permanent power (for a radio or something in the over-head console) and the other is for the UHF and is operated by a switch on the switch panel by the drivers knee. That switch panel also has the heater fan control on it - and it works! Variable speed heat!

The freewheeling hubs on it work.

There is a fitting under the passenger seat for a second battery - that is where the main battery used to be. So you can still have a main AND a house battery in it if you want.

I could probably go on for hours I have certainly spent hours on it! Um - I can't remember if I refilled the diff......

There is a tool box on the front bumper - can't remember if I sent you the pic with that in it. It is lockable. The previous owner used to carry a jack, some chocks and a tow rope in there - he kept the jack and the tow rope. They are the same military tool boxes that the Army Workshop 2a's sometimes had on top of the mudguards. It's bloody handy to stand on when leaning over into the engine bay to work on stuff!

I have a full set of new 2a door hinge pins for it - they will be in it for you to install when the current ones cark it (they are OK at the moment). I have replaced some of the door locks with brand new ones, too.

Remember - this is the last of the 2a's - so it has the 27mm wheel nuts - not the smaller ones the earlier 2a's had - but the same as the Series 3 ones.

Any other questions Jason, feel free to ask.