Thread: Life of Puma Rear Diff's

Postman Pat dropped past today.....

Looks good mate, bet your busting to get it all put together and installed

Originally Posted by Drover

Looks good mate, bet your busting to get it all put together and installed

Dropped it off at KLR this afternoon and Brad seemed really impressed with it. Will be going together in the next few days and hopefully the new trailing arms will be ready early next week so the brackets can then be made meaning I should have the truck back in a couple of weeks.

Well it's here and safe n sound in the garage.

Rear prop shaft to come this weekend and then sent away for shortening / re-tubing with a heavier wall thickness tube.

Then it's time for the fit up.

Couple of pics for those who haven't seen one yet.

If you had say an Ashcroft ATB in the rear at the moment and considering the special at L8, would you buy:

1. Another ATB for the front to match the rear and let the TC deal with manipulations to make work.
2. An Ashcroft Air locker, and fit to the front making it selectable and ressen any potential for steering effects.
3. As above but fit the selectable to the rear and swap the rear to the front.
4. Leave with just the rear ATB.
5. Other, (add options, axplanation)

Ok, I have finally had a chance to test the lockers.

We hit Toolangi SF on the weekend and when I had to use the lockers they worked perfectly, no noise, tonnes more traction as expected and the front one didn't seem to make too much difference to the steering. None that I noticed anyway. Mind you I wasn't exactly trying to do a slalom course with them engaged and it was very slippery mud I was in.

pics here

The only thing that stopped me getting out of the bog I was in initially was the fact my tyres caked with the slippery sticky clay. Once I got over the initial hump I reversed back up with ease. I know I wouldn't have been able to do that without the lockers engaged.

All I can say is top job Dave. You have completed my defender! Thanks a bunch.

Hi Josh,

glad you are pleased with it,

they have turned out quite well, easy enough to build and straight forward to fit,

I think I will get another batch of parts ordered up, this first batch is only 20 and nearly half have sold mainly from this thread, I haven't had a chance to put them on our website yet !

Dave

Finally got the old P38 centre out today and fitted the new HDP38 centre, simple job.

Just waiting on the new prop-shaft.

Here's a comparison pic of the 2 centres nose to nose.