Thread: Free wheeling hubs conversion...

Originally Posted by cartm58

any money spent modifying a 4wd is a waste ask any ex-wife of an owner

and most wives, too

Still, sometimes the new models are better. Shades of the Wife 1.0 thread from last year...

On topic - had factory locking hubs in a Sierra - no problems but no real difference I detected when driving with them on but in 2wd. No Land Rover experience - only recently bought my first P/T 4wd Landie and quite interested to see the outcome of this discussion!

Originally Posted by Phoenix

The main thing I use mine for is ANZAC day when I parade the vehicle and use 1st low unlocked for the parade,

An excellent point. In most cases one wouldn't want to use 1st low in "2WD" as the axles/diff might be at risk but in an on-road situation like that....

Ron

Originally Posted by Phoenix

1....... The main thing I use mine for is ANZAC day when I parade the vehicle and use 1st low unlocked for the parade,.......

2. Anybody got 2 sets of flanges for a 24 spline axle, 1 to use, and 1 to have the splines machined off for anzac day parades??

1. Good point - free wheel hubs enable the use of 1st/low as a creeper gear for manoeuvring on hard surfaces - I have used it for this for backing a trailer in confined spaces.

2. Your set you are machining the splines off need not be 24 spline, could be ten spline.

John

LOL, that's a point, I hadn't thought about that!!!!

without reading all of the other replies, so apologies if im repeating someone.
if you put freewheeling hubs on the front, ok, you can remove drive to the front wheels. but, without locking the centre diff (assuming it's a constant 4wd vehicle) you wont be going anywhere. if you lock the centre diff, you drive the front prop shaft, which in turn, drives the front diff and therefore the axles. so really not achieving anything other than making your vehicle less capable,(if you don't lock the hubs)
you will save a bit on a series vehicle, part time 4wd without the front hubs in will immobilise the whole front end. if it's ok for every other standard jap 4wd through the eighties and early nineties, it should be ok for an old landy