Replacing Salisbury rear with standard with maxi drive.

[rrturboD]

I had front and rear maxi drives in my 88 Range Rover. Both still in excellent condition.
My son has just bought a 1995 110, with rover front and salisbury rear. There is quite a lot of 'slack' in the whole drive chain, mainly in diffs/axles and MD flanges.

Should I put the pair of maxi drive rover diffs under it?
Any issues?

[350RRC]

Hi,

I'm going through the process of putting F&R diffs in a RRC with maxi lockers and axles.

The front is actually a laminated county diff with the raiko upper bushes and is in. Locker not connected yet.

The rear is not a Sals, could be non-Sals county if they made them, but in any case is identical to RRC. Rear needs the new Timken bearings installed that are sitting next to the Mac as I type.

Centres in both are 24 spline RRC / Disco.

Couple of things I'd say:

Front County diff has bigger CV's than RRC........ swivel ball is a different part number.

A Sals rear diff centre is seriously strong.........way stronger than a stock RRC 10 or 24 spline centre.

If it was me I'd re-bearing the centres and get the lash done and go from there. I paid less than $150 for all genuine Timken for the rear diff for my POS from a local vendor on this site.

There's a guy not to far away who's a whiz with diffs apparently who will do the bearings and set up for a very reasonable price............. nothing even like $500 per centre.

Wear on the axle / flange splines could be caused by having greased wheel bearings rather than oil lubed. Pretty simple to have a look.

Does he really need lockers, is it a manual?

DL

[rrturboD]

DL,
110 is currently a 5 speed manual, but likely to go auto.
He needs lockers just 'cause they are available! along with the long travel XEng rear suspension bits .... all ex my wrecked RR.
MD front end is reinforced and has County cvs etc (rebuilt ex winch challenge truck), and rear is 24 spline/MD axles and flanges.
Agree about strength of existing rear so will investigate bearings etc.

Maybe better option to replace front with the MD, then use ARB in rebuilt rear.

[350RRC]

Got the picture.

In my case I didn't really need the lockers, was just after diffs with maxi axles. Have a C9 auto in my pos and use the left foot on the brake to get traction control of sorts.

Bought and sold another 2 door that had the locking diffs, so it'll end up costing me nothing.

Your plan sounds the smartest option to me.

cheers, DL