Thread: Lucky 8's Project P38

Originally Posted by TD50WA

Love what you are doing. Watching with interest. Great job sofar. Have you seen this p38. There is plenty of YouTube stuff on it.

Thank you for the kind words. I have seen that truck it is a nice one.

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Project update

The sliders have been trimmed to fit with the fender flares. Hooray we can now turn with out rubbing! When the snow clears out I'll take some good pictures but for now I have some trail shots.


The tree bars were true to their name and I needed to use them often in the tight wooded area.





As you can see in this picture the tree bar portion on the slider sticks out just far enough to keep the door skins safe from damage.


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Have just watched your water proofing stuff heres the link for anyone who hasnt http://www.rangerovers.net/forum/7-r...aration-3.html

Re. the centre locker, are you able to spline shafts?
Was thinking of some thick tube thats turned on the outside to press into the front and rear bearings the vc sits in, weld the nose of a vc onto the end of the tube so it fits the front output shaft yoke, spline the inside on the tube to engage the front output from the diff. Inside the tube is a sliding cog that is spined on the outside to engage with the now front output tube, and splines on the inside so when its pushed back via arb style air it engages the front of the rear output shaft.

Its the cheapest I can think of 4 cuts, 3 splines, one mill and a weld. Still a few thousand worth of investment though.

Originally Posted by benji

Have just watched your water proofing stuff heres the link for anyone who hasnt 01 P38 Trail preparation. - Page 3

Re. the centre locker, are you able to spline shafts?
Was thinking of some thick tube thats turned on the outside to press into the front and rear bearings the vc sits in, weld the nose of a vc onto the end of the tube so it fits the front output shaft yoke, spline the inside on the tube to engage the front output from the diff. Inside the tube is a sliding cog that is spined on the outside to engage with the now front output tube, and splines on the inside so when its pushed back via arb style air it engages the front of the rear output shaft.

Its the cheapest I can think of 4 cuts, 3 splines, one mill and a weld. Still a few thousand worth of investment though.

Thank you for the Idea and we could make the shaft but I dont think most customer could weld it up correctly .

Project update : MUD in all the wrong places

Prepping for the next event we went through the truck a little bit and upon opening the air box we found this.



The airbox draws air from inside the front fender. But obviously that is not enough to protect it from the goop we are sticking the truck in.



We took the snorkel type section off the air box that connected it to the fender. The Air intake will now draw fresh air from inside the engine bay. To help protect the air box from dirt we covered the hole in the fender with this extra piece of plastic we found laying around.

Did you still have the plastic guards on the inside of the wheel arches fitted? That seems like a lot of mud to collect!

Gary

Originally Posted by mtb_gary

Did you still have the plastic guards on the inside of the wheel arches fitted? That seems like a lot of mud to collect!

Gary

No we do not. With the 33s we needed to rework the fender and the guard was removed.

Project update : Snow problem

The conditions at Winter Romp were crazy slippery, even for Maine. I tried airing down to 15psi to get more traction. The snow and ice just laughed, so I let the pressure down to 8psi and that was the magic number for the Nittos. This turned into a good test for the new Terrafirma rims. Whether it be on the trail or street the bead never came off the wheels.



The P38 is the first Land Rover I was afraid to play in the water with. Every crossing was done only after I knew how deep the water was. Next week I am going to focus on doing something with the BECM and ECU.



Unfortunately the Winter Romp was not kind to the P38s Fender flares. The tight trails and low hanging tree branches were like driving through the living forest of Middle Earth and someone told the trees that each flare was a Ring of Power.



We will have to get the heat gun out and bend the flare back into shape but with out them we could not stuff the 33s like this.



Winter Romp poser shot