snapped half shaft

giveitago · May 27, 2015

aup I went to Buxton land rover club pay and play day on Sunday (fantastic day and well organised) and managed to snap the rear half shaft on my 90, fixing it I noticed there is more play in the front diff than the rear I was wondering if this would put more strain on the rear diff and half shafts as they would take the full weight of the landy before the front? this was my first play day so I may have been a bit hard on it as a novice. any ideas any one

owl · May 27, 2015

No it won't make a difference to the rear, think if you are climbing out of a hole and one front wheel isn't on the floor then all drive goes out the rear anyway.
You just need better halfshafts and then stronger diffs etc. and that is how it starts.

DIFFLOCK66 · May 28, 2015

owl said:
No it won't make a difference to the rear, think if you are climbing out of a hole and one front wheel isn't on the floor then all drive goes out the FRONT anyway.

My emphasis. UNLESS you have locked the centre diff of course. (Hey, some people try driving over stuff before engaging CDL

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giveitago · May 28, 2015

cheers must be me then, from going on the course I left it in diff lock all the time with it being muddy maybe I should of kept taking it out to stop wind up?

owl · May 28, 2015

DIFFLOCK66 said:
My emphasis. UNLESS you have locked the centre diff of course. (Hey, some people try driving over stuff before engaging CDL )

LOL, true, it didn't occur to me that he might not have it engaged

owl · May 28, 2015

giveitago said:
cheers must be me then, from going on the course I left it in diff lock all the time with it being muddy maybe I should of kept taking it out to stop wind up?

It's just another broken Land Rover half shaft. When it is muddy you can leave it in diff lock.

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