Re: SER1 SI steering

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This is a recent picture with my attempt at replica Lightweight Landrover 
guards made from some old roadsigns to replace the fractured old guards.  
They are going to be replaced by either a SIII or defender front end, 
whichever I can find cheap.

regards William

>From: "Peter Vollers" <peter.vollers@xxxxxxxx.xxx>
>Reply-To: series1@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
>To: <series1@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
>Subject: Re: SER1 SI steering
>Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 08:13:15 -0400
>
>William, your truck sounds very interesting.  Any chance you could shoot me 
>a jpeg of it to:
>
>peter.vollers@xxxxxxxx.xxx  ?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Peter Vollers, President
>Vermont Expedition Society
>www.vtxs.org
>One High Street
>Woodstock, VT 05091
>802-457-2420 (phone)
>802-457-9960 (fax)
>802-457-9205 (home)
>802-999-8946 (cell)
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: William Hanna
>   To: series1@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
>   Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2005 3:31 AM
>   Subject: SER1 SI steering
>
>
>   I was after some feedback/suggestion about modifications to a 1953 SWB.  
>The
>   current steering is the original worn & nut type box that bolts onto the
>   firewall with 2 bolts down through the firewall (not the type that bolt 
>to a
>   bracket that comes up off the chassis).
>   The rough terrain the vehicle is driven on is flexing the firewall and 
>has
>   caused the back of the original guards to fracture.  This flex also 
>moves
>   the steering roadswhich affects steering if travel at any sort of speed 
>over
>   rough roads.
>
>   I was hoping to modify the car to take a powersteering unit and ANY
>   suggestions and modifications to SI steering would be appreciated.
>
>   The steeringbox/firewall has been braced with a peice of 75mmx75mmx4mm 
>steel
>   to the chassis which greatly  improved the problem, but this is not 
>really
>   what I consider to be a permanent solution, and the tyre hits the brace 
>on
>   hard left turns, widening the already rather large turning cirlce.
>
>   Regards William
>
>   p.s: 1953 80" SWB #36661514 originally with a 2litre F head motor.
>   Modified- SIII diffs, 33X12.5R15 Mud Terrains and 179ci Holden motor
>
>
>
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>


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