Wow! Can't wait to see how this thing drives.... sounds like either going to
be Dr. jeckell or Mr. Hyde..
Will report my experience. Going to work on my Healey today. It's 25*
farenheight
Right now. I'll drive my Suburban 4x4.
Ira Erbs
Digs 4 Solutions
Computer Consultants
Portland, OR
On Nov 23, 2010 6:04 AM, "Simon Lachlan" <simon.lachlan@homecall.co.uk>
wrote:
> (Original message bounced. Too big. Forgot to chop off the preceding
> messages. Sorry if you get it twice.)
>
> I forget to which Series this string referred originally.
> I had a about 50 LRs in my charge. Half LH drive, for Germany, and half RH
> drive, for home use. A few were SWBs, the balance being Long Wheel Base.
All
> were Series II. Or IIa, if I remember correct, which I may not. All were
> petrol.
> The Steering was not a problem and, if any of them had started to wander,
it
> would have been sent to Workshops and fixed or sold out.
> One aside, be very careful before buying an ex-army SWB LR. Some of them
> steer horribly and drive like crabs. That's normally because they've been
> strapped to a pallet and shoved out of the back of a Hercules. They'd land
> with a frightful wallop, normally driveable off the, destroyed, pallet but
> occasionally with a kink in something down below.
> We never fitted Fairey hubs....one more thing to go wrong I suppose.
> However, most people in UK who have that vintage fit them or find that a
PO
> has already done so.
> (The most vital piece of equipment on our LRs? Starting
handle.......idiots
> wld use the batteries all night for running ancillaries like comms gear
then
> wonder why they wouldn't start.)
> Simon
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