Thread: 6 speed R380 replacement

Originally Posted by uninformed

Ashcroft are working on this. They are starting with the td5. I was thinking about this last night, in relation to the LT230. Seeing there has been more issues with the pumas than other LR's with lifts and driveshaft problems due to the rotation of the T/Case.....I do wonder if fitting a 6 speed behind other engines and how the T/case will work out. Are the mounting bolts concentric? can it just be rotated back?

If the MT82 is longer than the R380 they might have had to tilt the entire driveline more steeply for that little short rear prop shaft on the 90 to have acceptable angles on the rear uni's ? (pure conjecture on my part)

Originally Posted by rick130

Straight cut teeth howl like there's no tomorrow though, it'd be unbearable in a daily driver

I think you mean it would be totally cool in a daily driver!

Originally Posted by rick130

If the MT82 is longer than the R380 they might have had to tilt the entire driveline more steeply for that little short rear prop shaft on the 90 to have acceptable angles on the rear uni's ? (pure conjecture on my part)

a quote from Ashcroft: "ultimatly we would like to have a kit for the TD5, V8 and TDi but as the length is a major issue we thought we would start with the longest setup ie the TD5, even in the TD5 it's very tight to get it the same as the 380, for the V8 and TDi it looks like we will need to shorten the rear end, if we do this it will make the TD5 much easier as we may be able to use the stock TD5 clutch bearing and slave,

will do more measuring tomorrow,"

Originally Posted by BigJon

I think you mean it would be totally cool in a daily driver!

Hahahaha, and probably wouldn't hear it over the rest of the noise a Defender makes.

Supposedly my MT's howl, but I've never heard them

Actually a certain poster on this thread asked a certain caller this morning if they were ringing from a wind tunnel as they drove along.

It wont be long until the LT77 is my weakest link. Might have to be the next move after I replace the 3.9 with the 4.6 V8 I have lying around (with extractors, cam, high flow exhaust and wolf3D, probably new pistons etc at some point down the line too).

So the guts of the Qualfe gearbox look just like a motorbike gearbox,

so now I get how the sequential changer works, and you can just bang it into gear like a motorbike.

So wheres neutral, is it 1 down & 5 up like a bike ?
what about reverse, maybe a lever like a quad ?

Would take a little to get used to using foot clutch & hand gears !