The tire shop also removed all wheel weights and the valves. Today we took the 15″ wheels to the tire shop to remove and dispose of the old tires. The LP861 marking appears to be common to Land Rover 15″ x 6″ factory wheels as I’ve found several references on the web for Series IIa wheels manufactured after 1967 being marked this way. 3 of the 5 are stamped with the code LP861 – shown below. The switch from 16″ wheels (standard issue prior to 1969) to 15″ was attributed to better availability of 15″ tires in the US. The “Federal 88 inch” introduced a series of safety related updates that were mandated by US federal regulations. My own research suggests that the original wheel size would have been 15″ as Land Rover switched to 15″ wheels in 1969 on what the factory called the “Federal 88 inch” models. But he also sent along what he reported to be the original 15″ wheels. The previous owner had purchased these along the way to improve the drive-ability of the truck. The set that the Rover was rolling on when it arrived in my shop were 16″ wheels. The truck came to me with two sets of wheels. The brake restoration and addressed in another post, so today I turned my attention to the wheels & tires which will eventually need to go back on. Since I had a little free time this weekend, I decided to apply some of that time to getting the Rover back on the road. Over the summer it sat while I tended to other priorities. Its been a while since I worked on the Rover.
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