178-065 " MR WORKSHOP "

[DennisM]

Here is your image of the RHS rear brake as fitted to your L/Rover

this is the brake assembly off the LHS rear incorrectly fitted  to the RHS by some-one in the past.
I took a few images using the LHS brake assembly as fitted to the RHS of the differential housing, this is what it looks like

it will fit in another position as well, like this
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but both are incorrect, here is the RHS brake assembly fitted correctly


it is so easily done if you are not familiar with the brake assembly layout, like I said before "you've never built repaired anything if you haven't broke something along the way" LOL, anyway Juddy hope thats of some help to you, cheers mate Dennis

[juddy]

Nearly finished the wing box antenna, and re-pained the electrical box, still undecided on what antennas to go with.....

[juddy]

In the garage..

[juddy]

A little update on things

I was going to leave the inside alone for a while, but the more I got on with it the more stuff came out.  I was very surprised to see how dirty it was under there.  Any way moving on with cleaning it all up, and getting it painted..

[Diana Alan]

In the garage..
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Juddy

I've never seen the "D" rings mounted like that before.  Was it that way when you got it?

[juddy]

The D Rings were a pain in the back side D. Basically they did not line up with a replacement bumper I got, and then even if they had the winch was in the way, so I mounted them on the front.  I have seen this done before, Land Rover in fact did it with alot of there special vehicles. 

It may not be correct, but thats the way its staying.   

[Diana Alan]

The D rings (but not exactly the same type) were mounted in that fashion on the rear of forward controls, but on the top of the bar in front. 

I hope the Qld DoT doesn't reject them as protrusions when it comes time to register.  Perhaps remove them for the inspection.

[juddy]

Good Point

Jerry's Dormobiles got them, and Series 3 ex army have them...

[FFRMAN]

Hi Juddy,

Series 3 Army never had D rings in any position but they did have helicopter/recover points on the front, the 4 bolts are to attach the bumber to the chassis as the front dumb irons on a series 3 are different to a 2A. See photo, this is an FFR at Seymour tank museum.

[juddy]

Ah yes helicopter lift rings sticking out, but they still stick out...

[Diana Alan]

If you take a look at the towing/lift rings they are quite small, protruding only about 40mm, with the correct SIII brushguard there are two flat bars forming blunt pedestrian protections above the lift points.  These have a similar function to the blunt protections over winch fairleads in the 1980s and 1990s.  You will note that these fairlead protections no longer meet the national code of practice for bull bar manufacturers.

While the military may be overlooked for these issues, like the lifting points on perentie 110, civilian authorities can and often will take exception to them.  Like they do with front exit exhausts.

[juddy]

Well we will just have to see will not we.  No point being negative .

[Diana Alan]

Well we will just have to see will not we.  No point being negative .

  Which is why I suggested to remove them before the inspection, what's not there can't be rejected.

[DennisM]

I would be thinking that the replacement bar you have on the vehicle is most likely a S3 civvie bar. The Series 3 military chassis (109) is different from the civilian type at the front where the bar attaches, the civvie version chassis of the S3 (109 & 88) are basically the same as the S2 etc, but they changed the design of the mounts for the bar, they are shorter from memory. The S3 military chassis has 2 flat sections of steel (minimum 6mm thick) which is welded/supported at the front, the bumper bar lifting pads etc all bolt onto this
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/uu319/DJM110/FFRdemolition004_zpsee390240.jpg
section of steel at the very front of the chassis as shown in image, cheers Dennis
ps please don't ask for anything shown in image as most of it was scrapped 2 years ago,,.

[juddy]

Hi Dennis

I bought the bumper of Mrs HH, she said it would fit, and it did, just the holes for the d ring did not, maybe it was because it was old and a little bent....