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[22900013A]

It depends on the profile of the rear wheel arch. If it originally had deep sills, then the rear arch aperture is smaller, and the sill is longer. Shallow sills are shorter because the rear arch aperture was increased to accommodate the 9.00 x 16 tyres fitted to the 1-ton models that came out at the same time.

I don't believe this applies to station wagons, as they were never sold on 900x16 tyres.

[22900013A]

  Hi Guys

  Thanks for all the reply's.
  I did not know rear shallow sills were shorter if they are that would be a issue. I thought they just bolted on under neath and were simply shallower.

 My Nada Dormobile left for Dormobile from the Land rover factory on Sept 11th 1968 so it very well could actually be a 1968 spec Land rover and by the time Dormobile finished it it may have been sold as a 1969 model. The factories also used to shut down to change model year tooling in late August and early September so may have left land rover as a 1969 model. I believe it has all 1968 features.

  I live on the West wet coast of Canada but thanks anyway Matt. Shipping may be a bit problematic?

   This is getting a bit confusing I have a buddy a few miles away with a 1969 station wagon with headlights in the wings and deep sills he swears its original, i dont know from what I have read and 22900013A says that should not exist. I dont know? parts do get changed over the years by different owners

  So  think I am going to try and stay with the deep sills but finding them is tough, any ideas? I have located 2 in Canada but need the other 2.

  Thanks for the answers.  Victor

Hi you have mis-read what I wrote.
The lamps moved before the sills changed to the shallow type, meaning deep sills with lamps in wings was briefly available in spring 1969. I own such a vehicle myself built in April 1969.

There are two types of rear shallow sill for a 109", as the wheelarch profile didn't change until around 1971, so you have both long and short shallow sills, but only long deep sills.

[island dormy]

 Hi  Again

  Sorry 22900013A I guess I did misread what you said.

  Hi Noddy  Nope its not an exhibit it was just parked up by the rail shop beside the fire truck which was being decommissioned for the winter months. (Its a working fire truck for the museum in the hot summer time)

 I did speak with Matt his free sills are the narrow variety and I am going to keep the proper deep ones. I think I have some options of where to get them now.

  Victor

[Bloke]

Sorry to hijack this thread. I'm also on the hunt for a set of 109 Station Wagon deep sills.

If I'm unable to find any, will standard 109 sills fit, with some modification? I haven't even been able to find a picture of 109 SW sills so difficult to compare. The parts manual picture is tiny.

Thanks.

Tom