Disco 2 Diff lock safe to use?
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jamesmartin
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discool
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That's Ok and disengage as soon as a non slippery surface is reached and that's at any speed.
Last time I used my diff lock was in the snow back in 2011-12, of course i know can't select diff lock, don't use it loose it.
Last time I used my diff lock was in the snow back in 2011-12, of course i know can't select diff lock, don't use it loose it.
That's Ok and disengage as soon as a non slippery surface is reached and that's at any speed.
Last time I used my diff lock was in the snow back in 2011-12, of course i know can't select diff lock, don't use it loose it.
Get some WD40 up under her and free it off, did this with my brothers 110 that was ex environment agency and only used on the roads, works a charm
discool
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Get some WD40 up under her and free it off, did this with my brothers 110 that was ex environment agency and only used on the roads, works a charm
Thanks for your tip, but every known spray lubricant has been sprayed on the linkage, just in case, as it was clean to start with.
If it did work this year and so could be used it would have only the second time in my 20 years of ownership.
And never used diff lock earlier with my RR, I didn't know much about it back then
1988smithy
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Feel better about not having one at all now!
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Think I just learned something then. Coming home tonight the back end on my Defender 90 broke away a couple of times on ninety degree turns with negative camber, nothing scary. However I was a bit surprised, I'd expected it to be on rails. Diff lock would have sorted this?
discool
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From my experience which is only based on just two week of snow, is yes definitely, kept me on the rails at round abouts.
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You need to try it when the system is hot, not cold, and then you should find it is easier, but it should be used occasionally to make sure it does not get siezed. The older D1 linkages used to seize up and needed to be stripped to unseize them, but the D2 linkage is cable and should not do this.
But diff-lock is not a way of correcting poor driving skills, you can still end up sliding even with it engaged, if you do stupid things......!!
Tony
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no ,a side ways force can only be countered by the grip tyres have on the tarmac, a 90 or 110 might grip better with some weight in the back a 2 ton disco wont as weight also adds to the tendency to slide sideways when surface is slippery
discool
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I know that, diff lock works like a hot knife through butter, when I last used it back in January 2012.
