Originally Posted by
TerryO
Elsewhere he talked about fitting sliders on the suspension wishbones from memory. You used to be able to and possibly still can buy flat plates that protected the suspension, under the rear diff, Gearbox, drive shaft etc. Don't believe they were meant for sliding rather to stop rocks smashing everything.
with an ARB bar fitted it is just about completely flat all the way back to the auto, apart from the front suspension. Add in the gearbox plate and a compressor cover and there is not much under there to get caught on except the exhaust where it goes under the rear suspension.
If I remember right I don't think he had a e-diff, it didn't look like it when he lifted his rear wheel either. Which makes its progress in that slop pretty impressive.
Did he have to alter much, Yep he did. But alot less than one might think. His main concern in the end was the inner plastic wheel guards which he never explained how he fixed them to fit around everything that I could find.
He had to reroute the rear air conditioning lines and hammer a couple of inner guard body seams flat and the biggest change was cutting off a inch of chassis rail that sticks out for no obvious reason on either side under the firewall into the front wheel arch. He had to tie up a section of canbus cabling with a cable tie or two as well up under one of the front guards. I'm sure there were others things but none that spring to mind.
So all in all not such a big job and not really expensive at all parts wise either that I remember. Not sure if he used wheel spacers, maybe someone else might remember if he did. I would like to have seen him on a dry rocky steep track or two like most here play on, that would have been of more interest for me.
Anyway a impressive vehicle and his 2.6 tons of weight didn't seam to stop him in the mud either.
