Silly ideas, but help me out with them.

**loanrangie** · 3rd June 2014, 12:41 PM

Originally Posted by Disco Muppet

Interesting, I Was under the impression 24 spline axles were significantly stronger....
Will a rangie body go on a defender chassis though?

With some fabricated out riggers it will, 120 should have a salisbury diff in it which is much stronger than a rover diff.

**Disco Muppet** · 3rd June 2014, 03:16 PM

Interesting.
Gives me much greater options in terms of 110/120/130 wheelbase etc.
Cheers

**Jazzman** · 5th June 2014, 09:42 AM

Apparently the chassis on the defenders, rrc and disco 1's are similar. I do know you can put a classic body on a d1 chassis. To achieve what you're after you might be better off with defender type chassis to begin with, like someone else mentioned the diffs are stronger. But to answer you question about disco 1 diffs in rrc. They bolt straight in. I'm running 1998 disco1 diffs in my 1988 rrc. I brought the full assemblies front and rear. Simply rolled them under the car and bolted them in. The diffs have sway bar mounts that I'm not using. The trouble only starts with the brake calipers. Disco calipers only run 1 brake line, the rrc has two. The rrc calipers bolt holes are about 0.5mm too small to mount them to the disco diff assembly. So your have the option of drill out the holes slightly larger or run the disco calipers and block one brake line, you have to choose the correct brake lone too. Hope that helps.

**Disco Muppet** · 5th June 2014, 07:46 PM

Well, decided that as much as I'd like to do it in one hit it will be easier to get the engine and gearbox in and focus on sorting that out, then worry about chopping it a bit later

**Mick_Marsh** · 8th June 2014, 08:12 PM

I'm sure you can move the cab on. I'd even be interested in it.
2001 Land Rover Defender 110 (4X4) 5 Speed Manual 4x4 Cab Chassis | Cars, Vans & Utes | Gumtree Australia Litchfield Area - Knuckey Lagoon | 1042017828
Oh, I don't think it's a 110. Not with that wheelbase.

**Scouse** · 9th June 2014, 04:12 PM

It's a desirable 130 Big Cab.

**Dougal** · 11th June 2014, 04:44 PM

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

Don't forget to get an engineer on board before you do this.

Another thought, get a 120" Defender and rebody it.
The 120" had the Isuzu. There was a 120" "restorers delight" in the Marketplace Alerts section a few weeks back.

That's exactly what I was thinking. John (bush65) is doing something similar right now with a bushranger body cut to a ute on a 120" LR chassis. I understand the 110/120" chassis have deeper (hence stronger) rails than the rangie/disco chassis.

Originally Posted by 350RRC

^^^^^ Best advice right above.

Also 24 spline D1 shafts are really not much stronger than 10 spline, if at all.

DL

24 spline axles are a far better design. People get all carried away with the ashcroft tests which were a single twist to failure. Single twists to failure aren't common. Virtually all failures are fatigue and the 24 spline axles are a far better design to resist fatigue failure (crack initiation and growth) than the 10 spline.

But that said, if you intend to replace the diff centres and drive-shafts there is no benefit then that's all the failure prone bits sorted anyway.

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