sold my early bay and bought a late split,,, not really much in it mechanically, the early bay had uprated front brakes and was ball joint, the split has drums all round and is on king pins. The bay brakes were better. The bay was lowered while the split is standard and this is much better for the types of place I camp at. Both 12volt and both running 1600 twin port, bay had better top speed,, around 70, split will do 65, but sounds happy around 50 due to reduction boxes.
I have nothing bad to say about either of them and would run a splitty camper and an early bay micro bus if I could. ( wouldnt have safaris out of choice though,, getting really wet driving about this summer !! )
Dubby