Well, the title says it all. Â I spent an exasperating day swapping the Salisbury diffs over again to drop the ratios. Â Removing the bearings from the carriers to move the good bearings from the 3.54 unit to replace the rusted bearings on the 4.71 was a pig because I appear to have lost my […]
109 Alloy Wheel Repair
Entropy is an ongoing battle, and none are more familiar with it than Land Rover owners. As well as a few small patches of corrosion here and there on the body needing a little treatment and touching up, the two front wheels are showing to be less resilient than I’d hoped of the extensive treatment […]
August 2013 Update
There hasn’t been much going on recently – I’ve been working too much and other things have been taking up the money anyway. The rebuilt head has cut down enormously on the oil loss suffered since I built up the Tdi engine in 2008. It’s hard to say whether it is still using any – […]
Dropping the Diff Ratios – Salisbury
Though the 3.54 diffs in the coiler axles gave me much better cruising rpm and fuel economy (10%), they didn’t drive nicely and I strongly suspect they were a major contributory factor in the failure of the gear box.  So, I have replaced the rear 3.54 diff with a SIII 109’s  4.71 ratio diff.  The […]
109 Off the Road Again
A couple of nasty problems have cropped up.
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