Thread: CDL

Originally Posted by ffdisco2

Try ringing up wreckers for an 03/04 D2A Factory CDL lever. Easy to install - about 2 hours.

Didn't think they were compatible, but good to know. Is there any parts that I should replace on a second hand unit?

Nothing to replace, there isn't really much to wear on them. Mine came with everything I needed to fit it. If they don't send you a new tunnel cover, then you can cut out the original one to allow the new lever to actuate left-right. Really a straight forward job.

I got mine from a wreckers in SA. Jagrover spares or something like that.

Originally Posted by ffdisco2

Nothing to replace, there isn't really much to wear on them. Mine came with everything I needed to fit it. If they don't send you a new tunnel cover, then you can cut out the original one to allow the new lever to actuate left-right. Really a straight forward job.

I got mine from a wreckers in SA. Jagrover spares or something like that.

Thanks ffdisco2, a CDL is my first item on my shopping list.

Originally Posted by Troppo

Ok, so as a newbie to LR's I am hopefully going to be getting a D2 in a week or so V8 with ACE and after reading heaps of info in here and watching several YouTube vids on the matter, it looks like I will need a CDL kit of some sort. In my search the Ashcroft CDL kit seems to be the most popular, but I also came across a kit made by a company called 'CM Manufacturing'. The Ashcroft kit involves a lot of work to fit it, the CM company as I see it only requires some wiring and a switch.

CM Manufacturing - Air Shifter CDL (Center Differential Locker)

Has anybody used or seen this kit in action as it seems easier to install.

I purchased the CM Air Shifter around 12 months ago and have just yesterday got around to getting it installed and I'm doing the air compressor install today Easter Sunday.

The hardest part about installing the shifter was removing the 3 bolts that'll hold it in place on top of the transfer case - they were all very stiff and there is not a lotta room to work a spanner up there so lucky i had a stubby ratchet handle and 10mm socket in my tool box. When i got the bolts out i saw that they had had LockTite applied during original assembly. For the installation I separated the base plate from the air cylinder and fitted the base plate separately for ease of installation now having better access for replacing the bolts - I re-applied LockTite when bolting on the base plate then re-attached the air cylinder etc.

Now to the solenoid control and air supply...............

More soon, onebob

Originally Posted by OffTrack

The ONLY thing I dislike about the DiscoveryTD5.com CDL kit which I have installed (and Ashcroft for that matter) is the fact that the bottom of the lever is open, rather than solid like the factory levers. Unless you add a rubber boot the only thing between the engine bay and the interior is the transfer lever boot.

Have to agree, its a significant "downfall" of the 2 designs mentioned above, and if you go in any water deeper than sill depth, it is pushed up under the tunnel, floods the centre console and flows down behind the carpet.

I have a contact who is currently "re-working" standard Hi / Low levers, they then become 99% identical to the factory Genuine ones in the D2a and are obviously closed at the bottom. The current price is about £190 + postage.

Just for ref, heres a few piccy's of a vehicle that we are converting to an auto... which did or does currently have an "open" designed lever, the silt has all collected in the dips etc in the metal plates, but the inside of the transfer lever gaiter was completely "stained" where muddy water had come up through the tunnel, you can see how far it got up the front of heater box as well. Evidence of water going down the sides of the tunnel under the carpet was also obvious.

Originally Posted by Urban Panzer

I have a contact who is currently "re-working" standard Hi / Low levers, they then become 99% identical to the factory Genuine ones in the D2a and are obviously closed at the bottom. The current price is about £190 + postage.

Ok gota ask... When is he taking orders ??????

Dazza

As far as I know, the orders are flowing in now, first 10 are done and sold, heres a piccy of a "few" below, I will post his contact details later..

They look fantastic. I reckon there will be a few Ashcroft style levers up for sale in the very near future.