Thread: Rangie classic diffs and housings

Front housing on the 85 will be 6 bolt swivel as apposed to 7 bolt on the later housings.
Rear housing may have the shock mounts in different spots.
Not 100% on this

The ABS sensor works off the CV, and there is a possibility that the diffs have 24 splines, so your best option would be to use the entire '94 assembly on the '85

rear diff housing will have a cutout for the abs sensor which the 85 will not have, the abs for the front is located in the swivel housing

Ok guys I can bolt the complete 94 abs front assembly in .
I have no possibility of fitting the rear in complete though as the 85 rear is a modified 9inch with 85 axle tubes so would need to make the 94 stubs fit somehow buy the sound of it .

Im close to rebodying this 85 , 6 wheeler pictured with my 94 soft dash body and powerplant .

So am looking at the abs brake setup I could adapt to the 85 .

Few more pics if anyones interested

Hi Theg

You may want to consider reinforcing the incline in the chassis immediately before the intermediate axle. This area is known for cracking in the Defender 130 and was a standard modification in my Defender/Reynolds Boughton* 6x6 conversion. You can see the start of the reinforcing at the left hand side of this image.



It will however mean modifications to your rear passenger's floor area.

* Reynolds Boughton purchased Scottorn Trailers Ltd, the producer of the RR 6X6 in the attached image.

Hi lotsalandies .
Was yours a 130 chassis .
Mine is standard 100inch with rear extn .
I can do that bracing pretty easily . Will look at some options there .
Im not having a back seat . Will be four door with only two front seats and rear doors will open to extra cab storage . No rear seating . Cab is cut behind rear doors . Ive kep back wall from the old cab . See pic of it before I chucked the bad 85 body . I will square the back window vertically when I fit the wall into the 94 . Not sloped as pictured .
Then has a 6ft tray out back .

Hi Theg

No mine is a standard 110 Defender. The vehicle was part built in the Solihull plant and shipped to Reynolds Boughton's "Scottorn factory" for 6x6 conversion and then shipped back to Solihull for completion and delivery to the customer.

The construction is:

• the rear chassis rails were cut through the middle of the coil spring mount location and separated.
• 40" straight box section element welded in between the two ends of the chassis.
• coil spring mount brackets welded on. (I believe the spring mounts weren't welded on at the Solihull factory before conversion)
• a crossmember welded in to support the chassis end of the "A" frame (just like yours)
• special brackets welded on to support the front of the trailing arms.
• the intermediate axle is an SMC through-drive HD Rover diff.
• the rear axle is Salisbury.

The result is a constant 6x6 with lockable through-drive/power divider but without cross-locks.

It was a single cab ute with a cherry-picker body but I'm converting it to dual cab tray back and 4BD1 Isuzu.