Given up for now.
after crawling about in a field all day, nettle stings on my bellie, arms & legs all to find
1. a set of 24 spline diffs that wont do.
2. a set of fat axles from a a rangie and eventually..
after dragging the 200tdi off the field and onto the ramp, then removing the diff to find..
It had already been butchered, parts missing and knackered. why anyone would have put it back on i have no idea?
so. the 200 tdi only had one diff that is of use (front).
im assuming front & read diffs are different & go in opposite directions so that would be no use on the rear.
ill keep a lookout for a rear diff, i think if a find one for sale with 10 splines it would match the one on the front of the 200?
shame the rangie stuff doesn't fit, no chance of breaking one of those.
thanks again for all the help.