Thread: 6x6 l/r

Originally Posted by garrycol

Originally Posted by mcrover

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This is how it fits together

Why not just take the drive from the rear PTO point on the transfer case?

Garry

Because it doesn't replicate the Hi-Lo ratio without a second gearbox.

Yes we know the Perentie 6X6 does it - but it has a two ratio output.

Originally Posted by Olive Drab

thanks all, that red one looks way cool. Add that to the list of " i'd love one"
Does it constantly drive both diffs when on road?

A lot of these 6X6 Defenders were built as special contracts for various organisations in the UK.



There are also a lot particularly the TACR2 (Range Rover) which are 6X4. As for the 6X6 a lot are C6X4 with a lazy rear axle and 6X6 automatically selected when the centre diff lock is engaged.

As for a Land Rover half track - Land Rover already made one based on the Stage 1: the "Centaur".



P.A. Blanchard will be happy to sell you one for £15000 https://secure.pablanchard.co.uk/forsale.asp

Originally Posted by Irvine

Hi
I am interested in converting 6WD where do I find this gizmo fitted to the rear diff in this picture? Can you give me an address?
Thanks
Irvine

I believe Foleys in the UK at the very least use them if not make them. Can find them fairly easy on google if you search for foley 6x6. I contacted them by email at one stage but never got a reply
Cheers
Josh

Originally Posted by josh aka sean

I believe Foleys in the UK at the very least use them if not make them. Can find them fairly easy on google if you search for foley 6x6. I contacted them by email at one stage but never got a reply
Cheers
Josh

I think Ashcroft transmission do those drop boxes too.I think you'd be looking at 4-5000 uk pounds though.
I made 2 of my own,1 for each diff, back in the 70s by fabricating the gear case from steel and using 2 high range gears plus the helical half of the intermediate gear from series 1,2 or 3 Landy transfercase.Extensive experience revealed that you can getaway with a 4 pinion pegged Rover type diff for the middle axle providing you build a highly articulate load sharing rear suspension, but a Salisbury should be used for the rearmost axle. I never broke a middle but broke about half a dozen rears during that vehicles life of very severe cross country operation.
BTW, the LandRover Centuar halftrack that used track components from the Alvis Scorpion light tank was unsuccessful for a number of mechanical reasons.
Diane(Lots a Landys) "Ugly as Hell'' camper is next to useless offroad due to being fitted with a non load sharing, non articulating leaf spring bogie.There's a Google video somewhere of it making areal meal of climbing over a fairly small sand dune.

Wagoo.

Originally Posted by wagoo

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BTW, the LandRover Centuar halftrack that used track components from the Alvis Scorpion light tank was unsuccessful for a number of mechanical reasons.
Wagoo.

I have to agree with that - it's not a model that interests me either, would have the turning circle of an aircraft carrier!

Originally Posted by Irvine

Hi
I am interested in converting 6WD where do I find this gizmo fitted to the rear diff in this picture? Can you give me an address?
Thanks
Irvine

Google search Foley Special vehicles, UK.

JC

Originally Posted by wagoo

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Diane(Lots a Landys) "Ugly as Hell'' camper is next to useless offroad due to being fitted with a non load sharing, non articulating leaf spring bogie<snip> Wagoo.

Wagoo

I'm not sure which "Ugly as hell" camper you are talking about! If the yellow 101+a lot more - it's a nightmare - the two rear axles are too far apart and in Australia would be illegal to have non-load sharing axles more than 1 metre apart (unless each axle is capable to taking it's own weight and the total weight of the adjacent axle).

If you were talking about the red Defender style camper with the leprechaun sized door in the side, that one is coil sprung but as we know coils don't load share.

Diana

BTW: remember where you mentioned that Gog's (SADF SIIB ) nose drooped and you thought the chassis bent? I have found the problem, normally the SIIB have a full "C" section upper frame that runs from the front bumper to on top of the rear chassis cross member. This upper frame is supported on about a dozen inverted stirrups welded to the main chassis along it's entire length. In some models of SIIB the upper frame is cut off at the gearbox, usually on the third of these stirrups behind the axle centre. Gog has been cut off at the first stirrup immediately behind the axle centre line. When the screen was removed the single stirrup was unable to support the cantilevered weight of the nose forward of the dumb irons, hence the square top of the stirrup bent up into a pyramid shape. We will be restoring appropriate support to the upper frame in the near future.

Yes Diana I was referring to the spread axle 101.Sorry I should have wrote Microvas ''ugly as hell" camper, as it first appeared on his post. Have you seen the Google video I was referring to? I linked to it on another thread around here somewhere a few weeks back.
Coils can be made to load share if the upper ends are seated on the extremities of a centrally pivoted see saw, one each side. Saw it on an old Soviet Bloc truck in North Vietnam.
Interesting about the 2b subframes. I never really thought they would add much rigidity to the chassis, but just assumed they gave a straight flat platform to simplify mounting of different rear bodies.
Wagoo.