BUGA Community

My intention is to use it as an every day driver, so hauling kids, going shopping,  the usual sort of thing. I'm no longer a hard driver, so the need of stop on a penny brakes just isn't required any more. There are a few hilsl about in southern Tasmania where I live, but they've been here for quite some time so they're no longer much of a surprise. The only weight it'll be hauling is it's self and 3 people, max.
 The manual that's in it is on it's last legs and will be getting changes as is the clutch, so I was thinking of and auto as there are a few that are available to me through mates. If I get an auto with an over drive it would be good, but I think it'll be more than  likely  a 1:1 straight through final drive.

  I intend to keep the 14 inch wheels as they are period, in good condition and I like them, and was thinking of 60 or 70 series rubber probably 225  235 on the rear if I can get them, it would also fill the wheel arch a bit better than the 50 series.
  Ideally if I can get it to cruse at 110 @ 2500 to 2800 rpm I would be very happy, so I was thinking of a diff at about 3:1  or as some one mentioned 2-8 :1.
 It's single wheels on the back ( and the front as well )

 My wife's 1973 Mini runs a 2-9 :1 on 12 inch wheels and that gets along very well she is doing the best part of 700k's a week all year round, with only a bit of regular maintenance.

 Jeff.....

 Hi I'm Jeff from Tasmania, great site and loads of fantastic information.
  I have a 1970 series 1 CF SWB van. It sat in my garden for quite some time and but now I have a bit of time to throw at  my intention to get it back on the road.
 Having read through some posts I noticed there is a bit of debate about front disc brakes, has there been any conclusion about what goes on, as they would be on my wish list. Te other option is to try and find some Bedford pistons and reuse the original drum brakes. It's not my intention do any trans alpine adventures, or race it round Bathurst, and from what I can remember of the brakes form my time on them in the 70's and 80's there weren't to bad.
 From what I've seem on here lowering them is either a case of spending $ ooo,ooo,ooo nds od dollers or just leaving them as they are.

 The only other mechanical thing on my list is the final drive ratio, mine seems to be somewhere about 7: 1 as it only does about 60kph with the engine revving it's nuts of.
 At the moment my budget for the project is $0, and at the end of it I hope to have most of that left.

 Jeff.....