Thread: width of a salisbury diff

Originally Posted by weeds

no, will probably get an axle made and have flanges welded on to suit land rover stubs hubs. highly unlikely but if a wheel bearing fails and damages either the hub or stub on the defender i can always use the trailer as spares to get me home

Good plan !

Cheers Arthur

Weeds I gaurentee that If you can scrounge some landy hubs and stubs from a landyphile 'making' an axle will always be cheaper than buying ALKO or some such.

Stone guards... are they those built in rattles I removed years ago!!!

Ill go measure again for you. Right so the sals is still bolted to the 130 so its a bit tricky to measure. So this is for a 1995 '130. As its on vehicle it wont be as accurate as Jimbo has but I still get about 20mm more than 1365... Im pretty sure when I measured 1386mm it was sans hubs. So I wonder if different factory wheel offsets change the axle width, or just a slight change drum to disc?

I guess Weeds work out which rims you are going to use as different offsets will change axle widths, this is especially iportant if you run with leaves as say you build up using 1386 axle length but then use disco wheels the big inside offset may then mean the tyre scrubs the leaf edge.

S

Weeds - why not use a rear rover housing in your trailer? A bare housing wouldn't be much heavier than an HD trailer axle. You can rotate the housing so the diff pan is facing down, so as not to affect clearance.

p.s. - sorry - didn't get home till 9:30 last night - but it sounds like you have enough measurements?

Originally Posted by jimbo110

Just measured my spare sals, from a rear drum braked 110........1365mm flange face to flange face.

thanks, i believe sals should be the same weather they are drum or disc

Originally Posted by roverrescue

Weeds I gaurentee that If you can scrounge some landy hubs and stubs from a landyphile 'making' an axle will always be cheaper than buying ALKO or some such.

Stone guards... are they those built in rattles I removed years ago!!!

Ill go measure again for you. Right so the sals is still bolted to the 130 so its a bit tricky to measure. So this is for a 1995 '130. As its on vehicle it wont be as accurate as Jimbo has but I still get about 20mm more than 1365... Im pretty sure when I measured 1386mm it was sans hubs. So I wonder if different factory wheel offsets change the axle width, or just a slight change drum to disc?

I guess Weeds work out which rims you are going to use as different offsets will change axle widths, this is especially iportant if you run with leaves as say you build up using 1386 axle length but then use disco wheels the big inside offset may then mean the tyre scrubs the leaf edge.

S

em using disco rims

Originally Posted by isuzurover

Weeds - why not use a rear rover housing in your trailer? A bare housing wouldn't be much heavier than an HD trailer axle. You can rotate the housing so the diff pan is facing down, so as not to affect clearance.

p.s. - sorry - didn't get home till 9:30 last night - but it sounds like you have enough measurements?

i think there is some silly rule about using diff housings

if some could confirm that drum and disc sal housings are the same that would be great as i will use jim's measurement

kinda need this measurement right if i and getting an flange to flange axle made

righto.....confused more than ever

three measurement so far, this is axle flange to flange i.e. no stub axles

1385 steve
1365 jimbo sal with drums
1330 MR Auto sals with drums

MR have also indicated the housings never changed from drum to disc

is there somebody that can confirm one of the above measurements

Originally Posted by weeds

righto.....confused more than ever

three measurement so far, this is axle flange to flange i.e. no stub axles

1385 steve
1365 jimbo sal with drums
1330 MR Auto sals with drums

MR have also indicated the housings never changed from drum to disc

is there somebody that can confirm one of the above measurements

I will measure mine tonight. Do some measurements include the flange thickness and some not?

If you are using disco rims without altered offset you will have a narrower track than a fender using fender housing dimensions.

Take wheel offset into account once you have an axle measurement.

Maybe a more useful number in your case would be the centre of a disco 1 tyre/wheel to axle flange. Multipy this by two and subtract from wheel track of a fender!!!!

With respect to the measurements I stated, I could only easily measure inside of flange to inside of flange and it was 1365 or so, hence my "I still get about 20mm more than 1365mm"

I would really be trying to match wheel track as opposed to axle width.

S

Originally Posted by roverrescue

If you are using disco rims without altered offset you will have a narrower track than a fender using fender housing dimensions.

Take wheel offset into account once you have an axle measurement.

Maybe a more useful number in your case would be the centre of a disco 1 tyre/wheel to axle flange. Multipy this by two and subtract from wheel track of a fender!!!!

With respect to the measurements I stated, I could only easily measure inside of flange to inside of flange and it was 1365 or so, hence my "I still get about 20mm more than 1365mm"

I would really be trying to match wheel track as opposed to axle width.

S

so if i get the flange to flange measure right, fit defender stubs and hubs and disco rims it will be the same as the defender, thats why i am chasing the exact measurement

opps just realised, i run disco rims on the defender....... sorry for the confusion

the next problem is finding somebody to make an axle all the big players are not interested its either off the shelf or we cannot help you

oh and a surcharge to drill five holes instead of six and install 5/8 studs (because thats standard) even though i want 16mm

now i realise the frustrations of others when setting up there trailers