On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:29:18 +0000, Austin Shackles
<austinNOSPAM@ddol-las.net> wrote:
>On or around Fri, 25 Feb 2005 08:47:04 +0000 (UTC), beamendsltd
><beamendsltd@btconnect.com> enlightened us thusly:
>>
>>It's not exactly exhaustive research, but a custoner has been
>>putting Diahatsu engines in his Series I for years, and finaly
>>got round to putting the Diahatsu gearbox in as well. It didn't
>>work, and a Series II box is now installed. The motor get a hard
>>life towing animals to market (often in a trailer!) so it does
>>get some grief.
>
>I know someone who has a 2.8 Daihatsu engine and box in a 90, seems to go
>all right. The vehicle is an ex-UN one, bought with no engine/box and
>thereby cheaply.
i had a 2.8 daihatsu in up untill xmass then it , kinda , blew up.
so now ive got a 2.8 turbo sat outside waiting to be stripped..
the only problem i thought about the 2.8 was the rev range/gearing. I
know they are linked .
i put defender diffs in to up it a bit, but with 7.50`s on and towing
my van fully laden it was a struggle to maintain any reasonable speed
up hill. slowing down to 10 mph on some not so steep but long drag
hills.
this has to be a concoction of the engine-gearbox-final drive diffs.
my idea so far is to put in the engine and its associated box,
therefore it would pull as good as it should, the only limiting factor
then would be my final diff choice, which at the mo are standard
series diffs.
do you think im on the right tracks here? or maybe inviting disaster
later on, or,,,,,just talking complete ball**ks.
what would you do if you had the choice??
cheers for input so far, but im a bit scepticle. But whatever, it can
all be put back i suppose if it doesnt work , cant it.
andy