Re: SER1 Differential woes.....

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At 00:16 10/11/2004, you wrote:
>Hello Hennie,
>
>to add to Allan's account of axles & diffs, there was a brief run from 
>1956 to 58 when the S1 rear axle was available with fully floating half 
>shafts - this was standard equipment on the 107 Station Wagon and an 
>option on the 88" models and the 109 S1 pick up. These are therefore 
>narrow track halfshafts (shorter than the S2 fully floating halfshafts) 
>and very difficult to source.

Craddocks do, or did have fully floating S1 halfshafts in stock a couple of 
years ago. I bought a couple to rebuild my 86" back axle after breaking a 
halfshaft. These, and some hubs off  a dead Series 2 axle did the job a 
treat. Even managed to find a pair of 'knobbly' drive flanges so it matches 
the front axle, rather than the round Series 2-3 ones.
Wether these halfshafts were mega rare old stock Series 1 parts, or readily 
available Lightweight parts, I don't know...

cheers
Iain

1954 86" recovery truck
1954 107" 'box van'

PS: the diffs I have in the 107" are 4.3 ratio. I understand they are from 
a Rover car but not certain. One of them was fitted in the back axle when I 
got it, and the other one was in the spares pile from my 1960 series 2 with 
a couple of normal diffs, so got bunged in the front axle so I could use 4wd!

>I read somewhere that the Lightweight 2A/3 models had narrow track axles 
>and their halfshafts were a direct replacement for the fully floating S1 
>axle. Can anyone confirm this?
>
>Chrz
>
>Jeremy
>
>
>
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Regards

Iain McKenzie
www.fairmilerestorations.co.uk



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