Land Rover Engineer Requires Info

Defender lower rear trailing arms are too weak in bending.
Drop them on a rock and they bend like limp spaghetti. Do it badly enough and you screw the tail shaft (rear prop) off at the pinion.....

They need to be quite a bit larger in diameter. We either sleeve the OE ones or just fabricate larger diameter ones, and usually correct the angle of the chassis/arm bush at the same time.
While we are at it, the OE bush at that point is crap. The angle the arms sit at a normal ride height put undue strain on the bush, and they flog out/compress in a relatively short space of time leading to a heavy dose of rear bump steer. Have a look at the urethane bush Fulcrum/Super Pro manufacture for that spot. It's a superior design, allows greater articulation as it doesn't bind and doesn't die prematurely.

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Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

YOU are 14 pages late
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No... It just took that long to get the details I needed. :tease:

M

Probably too late but there was a great business here called Maxidrive which you could have bought. Then Defenders could have come standard with decent axles and decent locking diffs. (And portals?). :cool:

Yes, I was thinking the same thing earlier in the thread Frenchie. Drop boxes on the options list, maxidrive axles as standard, diffs as an option etc etc.

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Originally Posted by Greylandy

700km on a tank in a TD5 Defender. Not sure how you beat that in a V8 Disco?

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The disco has custom tanks! Anyway, I have been looking at a replacement, but I can not bring myself to buy a toyota (either prado with 180L tanks, or troopie with the same), and for once my wife agrees with me!

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Originally Posted by p38arover

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They are 16" like everyone else. Unless you have a D2 with 18" or a D3 with even bigger wheels.

Hmm, forget that - some of the others use 17" rims.

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I actually meant Wheel = Rim + Tyre combo. Tyre shopping is a pia for the Disco, all the good rubber comes in bigger sizes; plus not wanting to run foul of the law/insurance company/workcover (my vehicles are used for work, and sometimes by my employees). Besides, Discos look so much better with 32" wheels compared with standard piddling 29".

If L/R adress our wish list these things will cost more than 2 Humvee's!:D
Maxi Drive strength + Portal hub's:D:D

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Originally Posted by camel_landy

This guy IS genuine... I have other means other than e-mail & ISPs. ;)

M

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I really hope this isn't a wind up, but it just seems so implausible. Lawrence if you are real then accept my apologies, but for now, here I go...

I would like to know what the proof is Camel_Landy... please tell. :) I'm happy to be wrong on this.

I think it was Incisor who said the email address checks out (used to register on this site I guess). I Can't remember if email is used to verify registration details or not here though. Maybe some more details from those 'in the know' would be good, because I can see forum members are are spending ages writing long detailed posts, I'd hate for all that effort to be in vain.

Has anyone received an email from ORC1? Don't forget of course, that an email can be easily 'sent' from anyone, hell, I could send you an email and make the recipient think it was from Buckingham Palace!! The proof would be in sending an email back to that address and then getting a reply!

I had a quick look on , DISCO3.CO.UK which as a lot of D3 owners will know is the world's premier D3 site, Lawrence said he especially wanted feedback on current models - so how come there's no posts from a Lawrence on there then?

Finally, in conclusion, my'Lud, I think the name gives it away ORC1,

Troll's and Orc's anyone?? :D:D:D

Info on Internet Trolls and their behaviour can be found Troll (Internet) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I have been following this post closely and commented a couple of times, I wonder if Loz realised what a Pandora's Box he was opening - and for that matter us either. In all of the posts I have read here none actually say lets have a single post on what grieves us about LR and their product.

It is both funny and enlightening to see that we can use humor to vent our splean and enlightening to see that many of the things that irk me about Land Rover is a common feeling.

It really would be good for LR management to read and take note of what we have said about their product, I am probably dreaming because in 30 years of work never have I seen a large organisation take onboard information in this structure even though it is the most useful.

Now if Land Rover did buy maxi drive and build the defender like it should be, as has been identified here - I would take the agriculteral version - I would probably buy it instead of the OKA (which I must admit is still quite a few months off but getting closer)

Cheers all Blythe

Blythe

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Originally Posted by bushrover

I buy Defenders so I can spend $25000.00 on accessories and fix them myself when they stop. I luv em. But as I get older it would be nice to buy a new one with diff locks, long range tanks, air con that works, tougher axles, better seat adjustability, more elbow room (been booked for having my arm out the window)...

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Bushrover.

The coppas over your way must actually care, you are the first person in years that I have heard being booked for an arm out the window. The reverse baseball cap wearing, hotted up rice burner driving orangutans over here have so much of their arm out the window their knuckles get gravel rash.

And Yes as I said in-post 2 we want the Parentie Land Rover wide body.

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Originally Posted by bushrover

... on board diagnostics or better still electronics that wont stuff up, road side assist (at well 23) and a decent dealership network. ....

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Well 23 - Oh well, I don't think that Lawrence, Land Rover Management UK or even LR Australia have ever heard of the Canning Stock Route. But trackside assist on the GSR and the Gunbarrel Hwy and even on the Maddison Line or Rig Road would be good. Better still make the LRs reliable and servicable anywhere so you can do any of the above right out of the showroom and not need the trackside assist.

Diana