Anyone done a rear engined special?

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Bit of a general enquiry - has anyone built a rear engined LR of any type, and if so - how did you hook up the transfer box shifter and the diff lock?
 
thetim said:
Bit of a general enquiry - has anyone built a rear engined LR of any type, and if so - how did you hook up the transfer box shifter and the diff lock?
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Apart from wanting to thought of as completely bonkers, why would you want to make a rear engined landy. Too foreign by half.

Col
 
I'm making a cab forward truck, which means the gearbox is well aft of the driver. The cab tilts, which complicates matters too.
 
Have a look at this .. 101 FC Manual .. at the gearbox section, it might help. They do it with a gearchange shaft for the normal gears and a cable for the transfer changes.
 
Just take the diffs out & turn the diffs 180degs
You have to cut the opening & replace the diff pan.
Gears take a bit of used to running backwards
Good luck
 
Thanks all. I'm lengthening the hi/lo shift lever (the business end, not the lever in the cab) so that forces on a cable solution are lower. However, when I push it back and forth, I can only feel two detent positions. Should there be three, i.e. does neutral have a detent, or is it just somewhere in the no-man's-land between detent high and detent low? I'm a bit worried that the 'box has seized up and I can't get high ratio any longer.
 
...ignore me, I've found it! There are detents on all three positions. The third position was just further back than I expected.
 
thetim said:
Thanks all. I'm lengthening the hi/lo shift lever (the business end, not the lever in the cab) so that forces on a cable solution are lower. However, when I push it back and forth, I can only feel two detent positions. Should there be three, i.e. does neutral have a detent, or is it just somewhere in the no-man's-land between detent high and detent low? I'm a bit worried that the 'box has seized up and I can't get high ratio any longer.
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discovery 2 has a cable operated hi/lo not difficult to fit any lt230 can include diff lock too
 
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