jai_landrover
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Problem with Stage 1 stuff is spares are sooooo expensive
Dr_evil
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this a custom job by you I take it ?
I was planning on just dropping a modded disco axle on the front but saw the stage one and know they're pretty good
have you managed to fit a CV to either end of a prop before ? I'm thinking I'm gonna have to in order to work with my weird operating angle on the rear
jai_landrover
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Not tried the propshaft by my rear prop is sooo tight might be a custom jobbie.
Problem with fitting a later axle is you lose ground clearance or its a right bodge up I have a disco axle casing here i did and its poor you lose at least an inch maybe more and the castor is no good for racing/driving on road. We're limited to 33 inch tyres every bit counts. When we spend half our income getting that bit more of an advantage on our motors doing somthing that makes it worse is just a backwards step imo.
Problem with fitting a later axle is you lose ground clearance or its a right bodge up I have a disco axle casing here i did and its poor you lose at least an inch maybe more and the castor is no good for racing/driving on road. We're limited to 33 inch tyres every bit counts. When we spend half our income getting that bit more of an advantage on our motors doing somthing that makes it worse is just a backwards step imo.
Dr_evil
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Thats the thing though I don't need it on mine so much as its going to be roads and greenlanes so could get away with it
Might be less time consuming to do it your way though and I'd still get discs that way I presume
jai_landrover
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Forgot to add I like the narrowness of the series good for trials and wider wheels can be fitted to gain stability Not losing the series "look" is important to me fitting defender cv's to a series axle was my cheapest option. the back end I have almot done the homemade salisbury locker bit more dremeliling and it will be a change of hub cap and we will be locked for winch comps or norml hub caps we're good for ALRC trials with open diffs
RAMBIRKETT
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paddy700d are those poor landies in persley?
jai_landrover
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No you keep drum brakes nowt wrong when theyre maintained which on a comp car it strip inspect cleadd every comp
paddy700d
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Sure are. The 2/2a is basically a chassis with a few panels. The V8 doesn't have much left either now lol
Dr_evil
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my series bodywork has been butchered by the previous owner so I now have to use wheel arches as he'd drilled and poorly riveted on a set so was thinking with some very very narrow 35mm arches and the disco axle on front and possibly sals on rear it'd make it look right
by locker have you messed with the ramps inside it to make it more biased or actually fitted a locking system? I was thinking about bringing the diff centre into uni workshop and messing with the clutch plates if I was doing it that way.
by locker have you messed with the ramps inside it to make it more biased or actually fitted a locking system? I was thinking about bringing the diff centre into uni workshop and messing with the clutch plates if I was doing it that way.
jai_landrover
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Dr_evil
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those wheels/tyres you've acquired look pretty good!
RAMBIRKETT
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Good to put it to use rather than crush them...
Not often you see landies in persley, a few freelanders and thats about it. Still trying to find breakers locally, but they seam to be few and far between
paddy700d
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Where are you?
RAMBIRKETT
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paddy700d
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Kintore / Dinnet
I'm in Dinnet!!!
paddy700d
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I see some Landyzone loving happening
As long as I'm daddy!!! Lol
paddy700d
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2 of them are great the others are a bit perished and have dodgy looking cracks between the treads. Even if they're total gash I've now got 5 spare wheels lol
