Thread: Ikea 6X6D - anyone have an allen key?

Originally Posted by fitzy

RANGE ROVER 6X6 CUSTOM NSW ENGINEER CERTIFICATE 1986 | eBay

Just for interests sake 6x6 rangie with 2 ford 9"'s

With such a low pinion, 9'' ford diffs are quite easy to convert to thru drives and don't require gear or chain driven pwer dividers with their attendant frictional losses. A firm in the USA does make thru drive crownwheel and pinion sets, but it's not too difficult to modify standard ones.
Bill.

Originally Posted by jorjatom68

I have the same trouble as you with rust under the bump stops, so all the stops have to come off. The disc conversion is not that hard just need a military conversion plate to copy off. Andersons land rover in hervey bay have some left overs from doing my conversion. The hard piece to get hold of is the military stubs. From there it's just bolting it together. To find which bits worked at the start but once we worked it out it all seemed easy as. The only hard thing is welding a plate to take the A frame plate from the other diff in the picture

I think you mean hubs. The stubs are standard, same as drum ones. I have compared them side to side and they are identical.

I think your right there. It was a few years back now. We did try to use all sorts of things until we went that way. There was a military 6X6 in town with holden calipers on it.

Originally Posted by wagoo

With such a low pinion, 9'' ford diffs are quite easy to convert to thru drives and don't require gear or chain driven pwer dividers with their attendant frictional losses. A firm in the USA does make thru drive crownwheel and pinion sets, but it's not too difficult to modify standard ones.
Bill.

The Ford 9" are a very good diff although the hypoid nature of the pinion is critcal for the type of lubricant and AFAIK the closest Ford ratio to the 3.54 Rover/salisbury ratio is a 3.5:1 ratio.

However Ashcrofts in the UK have a front hypoid diff based on the ford 9" with the pinion at the top, so they may have a 3.54:1 cw/pinion set for the Ford.

AFAIK, when Ashcroft started to develop the "Force 9" it was based on a ford 9....by the time it was finished they have modded it to be their own. I think they had problems with Ford 9 gear sets in the front, and after not being able to find a reverse cut set or some one to make them, they re -designed their own so the tooth is symetrical, so it can ran on either side for front and rear applications. Im not sure if their new gear sets will bolt into a F9???

this is all from my dodgy memory so could be way off.

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

The Ford 9" are a very good diff although the hypoid nature of the pinion is critcal for the type of lubricant and AFAIK the closest Ford ratio to the 3.54 Rover/salisbury ratio is a 3.5:1 ratio.

However Ashcrofts in the UK have a front hypoid diff based on the ford 9" with the pinion at the top, so they may have a 3.54:1 cw/pinion set for the Ford.

I really wonder if the difference between 3.5:1 and 3.54:1 would be detrimental to the life of the centre differential anyway. It's only around 8 wheel revolutions per mile difference and the constant rotation of the gears actually may prevent the bevel gear teeth from Brinnelling.
I came across a site called 'six wheel appeal group' and was surprised at the numbers of 6x6 conversion to LandRovers that have been done over the years. I don't necessarily agree to these conversions being the answer to crosscountry load carrying duties when compared to a larger 2 ton 4x4 truck, but if there is still a demand for 6x6 conversions then an enterprising company such as Ashcrofts could do worse than develop the elegantly simple and strong 9'' thrudrive alternative to the fragile Rover diff based offerings.
bill.

I think I had a dream today, the dream involved going out to the factory to find Ikea's chassis fully painted (last weekend's dream) and that today I fitted wheels to the axle assemblies and then front radius arms, with new bushes at each end to the front axle and the freshly painted chassis, then front springs and panhard rod. Fantastical as that was my dream proceeded to, where I fitted to lower links and springs on the rear axle and lowered the weight of the chassis onto it's own suspension for the first time in at least a decade.

Diana

Today's effort re-fit the cab and tray ready for the 50Km trip to the chook shed, now it means I can get more than one day's work each week.