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#Post#: 102447--------------------------------------------------
My new to me 1970 2a swb
By: Cornish Rattler Date: August 21, 2017, 7:58 am
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Hi guys
Here is the story of my 1970 2a swb which I have recently
acquired, anyway here goes, just over a year ago my son, his
girlfriend and myself was involved in a heavy rear end shunt in
our then 1988 90 the result was the 90 was written off which we
bought back from the insurance and was paid out with enough
money to sort the 90 out ( new galv chassis ) and a few other
bits, anyway at the time me and son was replacing the chassis on
the 90 son and girlfriend announce that they are getting married
and sort of at the same time son's g/friend sent pic's of the 90
being stripped and new chassis being fitted ( by us ) to here
dad and he was very interested in what we was doing to the 90
and suggested we should buy another to restore and sell for the
wedding ( son's g/friends dad was buying the new project ) for
son and g/friend to restore with help ( all help ) from me and
as I have had loads of 2a's and 3's in the past which son has
helped me with over the years we decided on buying a 1970 2a swb
2.25P which we started stripping down back in February this
year.
the plan is to replace the chassis with a new galv chassis,
restore both axles, have the gearbox overhauled and replace the
tired engine with a spare 200tdi engine I have in the garage,
anyway after getting the 2a to the rolling chassis stage (
without engine / gearbox in ) the other party involved in the
accident with the 90 decided that they wasn't paying anything
even though they caused the accident so the insurances battled
it out in court and we eventually got paid out the rest of what
was owed to us but while all this was going on the 2a wasn't
being worked on and the wedding was getting closer so we all had
a re-think and decided to sell the 90 ( my decision ) to pay for
the wedding and I keep the 2a and so after doing a few jobs that
needed to be done before the 90 could be sold we sold the 90
over the weekend so the 2a is now officially mine :giddy:
Anyway whilst the 90 was up for sale I made a start on doing
stuff to the 2a re-work basically as originally we replaced most
of the stuff on the 2a ( rolling chassis ) with BP parts as it
was originally going to be sold but now its not I have decided
to replace all the BP stuff with decent stuff which has now been
done as this is going to be a keeper with a few different
changes as I want to use the 2a for long distant fishing trips
with friends.
So the changes are
1 replace the new std springs with Parabolic springs, fronts
done rears will be done next week as I am off for a week.
2 have the gearbox done by Ashcroft to suit the tdi engine, will
be done after the wedding.
3 fit Defender / Disco 3.54 diffs, done.
4 fit an O/D once sourced and repaired if needed.
5 fit the 200tdi engine ( fitted to the chassis and gearbox but
gearbox will be removed at a later stage for planned work )
then the rest will be pretty much std after that.
So for now this is were I am at :smile1
#Post#: 102449--------------------------------------------------
Re: My new to me 1970 2a swb
By: kev Date: August 21, 2017, 8:18 am
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Busy chap.
If you get yourself over to Leafers At T' Pit next weekend near
Wakefield, they have a cracking autojumble if you're after some
bits.
#Post#: 102453--------------------------------------------------
Re: My new to me 1970 2a swb
By: Cornish Rattler Date: August 21, 2017, 9:15 am
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[quote author=kev link=topic=9863.msg102449#msg102449
date=1503321522]
Busy chap.
If you get yourself over to Leafers At T' Pit next weekend near
Wakefield, they have a cracking autojumble if you're after some
bits.
[/quote]
Sorry I can't make it as with selling the boingy on Saturday
just gone I've no wheels till the 2a is back on the road which
will hopfully be this time next year, it sounds great though
:thumbs:
#Post#: 102457--------------------------------------------------
Re: My new to me 1970 2a swb
By: hippydave Date: August 21, 2017, 2:58 pm
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If you have having an Ashcroft conversion on the gear box and
3.54 diffs you wont need the overdrive as that would make it
vastly over geared, my Ashcroft box with 3.54s and 700s does
80mph no problem.
#Post#: 102466--------------------------------------------------
Re: My new to me 1970 2a swb
By: Cornish Rattler Date: August 23, 2017, 5:03 am
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[quote author=hippydave link=topic=9863.msg102457#msg102457
date=1503345491]
If you have having an Ashcroft conversion on the gear box and
3.54 diffs you wont need the overdrive as that would make it
vastly over geared, my Ashcroft box with 3.54s and 700s does
80mph no problem.
[/quot
Yeah with my last set up 1961 2a swb disco 200tdi, Ashcroft
gearbox, o/d and 7.50's but with std series diffs the 2a would
do 85 but from about 65 onwards the engine would scream its nuts
off so with fitting the higher diffs with o/d should make it
better the only problem I see is it will be too higher geared
for town work but I would be able to use the o/d as a splitter
box, but I will give it ago first without o/d as I may get the
o/d once the 2a is back on the road as this will be the first
time I have used 3.54 diffs with a series :thumbs:
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Re: My new to me 1970 2a swb
By: Cornish Rattler Date: August 23, 2017, 5:08 am
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My new rear Parabolic springs came today so as I am off next
week I will fit them then, the front's are already fitted as
part of all the rework I've been doing so once the rear springs
are fitted the rebuilt will re-start from there :smile1
#Post#: 102473--------------------------------------------------
Re: My new to me 1970 2a swb
By: Cornish Rattler Date: August 27, 2017, 6:13 am
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Fitted the new rear parabolic springs yesterday and today I'm
digging the old bulkhead out to strip off what I need and scrap
it as its too far gone to have repaired / referbed and have
decided on fitting a new galv one instead :smile1
#Post#: 102481--------------------------------------------------
Re: My new to me 1970 2a swb
By: Cornish Rattler Date: August 28, 2017, 9:04 am
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Part stripped the old bulkhead down yesterday just go a few
other bits to remove then its stripped but mite have chance to
p/x it against a new galv one so I will keep it for now :smile1
#Post#: 102486--------------------------------------------------
Re: My new to me 1970 2a swb
By: Cornish Rattler Date: August 29, 2017, 11:39 am
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Didn't get anything done today on the bulkhead as my son asked
me to give him a lift doing a full house clean ( his business )
so I will do it tomorrow now :smile1
#Post#: 102489--------------------------------------------------
Re: My new to me 1970 2a swb
By: Cornish Rattler Date: August 30, 2017, 9:53 am
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Finished stripping the bulkhead down today and covered it up
outside out of the way to give me a bit more room in the garage
:smile1
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