Thread: Project Sparks

Go for it Sparks, A year on and I'm still slowly slotting mine together. Nearly there but the closer I get the longer it seems to take and like you I'm doing as much as I can myself, YES it is very rewarding taking it out on the tracks and thinking to yourself "I made this capable of doing this"

I'm subscribing i want to see how this works out for you.

So last night I sat down with my fitter workmate Wazza and went through the rve cd on setting up the diffs.

After numerous jibes like

"geez what's with all the Landrover special tools"
and "Why don't ya just buy a Toyota and get on with it"

We set out a plan of attack.

Wazza being a wiz on the lathe turned me up some blanks to help with pressing on the bearings and he also machined me up a pinion height setting block to 39.50mm as per the rave CD.

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It's nice having a fitter at your disposal


Also Rovercare is kindly sending me some pinion height and preload shims so thanks for that.

Today is my first day off from night shift so I'm still a little tired so I might not do to mush today.
I might start by putting in the Aldi winch I got. Because my truck has ABS the winch has to sit in a cradle that bolts between the chassis rails. So today I might get under and do a bit of tidying up of a bit of rust around the bar and mount up the winch and cradle.

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Has anyone with a auto fitted an ARB cradle? Looks like the auto hoses that go from the cooler to the tranny might be in the way? But I’ll se when I mount it up if there is a problem,

Anyway that's all for today.
Stay tuned for the next posts


Sparks


ps I'm havving trouble posting up pictures at the moment i'll post some pictures when i can

Ok so i got the winch in but not happy with it. it sits down very low and i also forgot to rotate the gear box section so the selector sits down real low. Will post photos when i pull the winch back off again and rotate it around again.

Anyway im preping upto remove the centers of my diff on wednesday and have some questions.

1 The centralising peg thingy that sits over the pinion nut on the rear flange. What size and thread is it and is it left hand thread? I'm going to make up a puller to get it off so need to know.

2. what size nut is the pinion nut?

3. im going to be putting on a uni joint instead of the rubber couplink. I have a flange kit and the crown and pinion are from ashcroft. i think there is talk of using a spacer to make it fit properly? is that correct or am I thinking somthing different

anyway any help will be appreaciated

Cheers

Sparks

Ok it's been a while but have done a bit. Diff's are done tires and rims are on and winch is on.

A few Dramas have now emerged.

1. Front diff has a bit of a whine. it only happens when you are going at about 70 to 80 KMH if your less or more than it's fine????

2.tyres are great I got the km goodridge muddys in 285/75/16. These are fitted to -25 offset rims. Turning circle is fine and it dose not rub. but turning and going over bumps are another story

it was rubbing on the bull bar to start with. I pulled the bull bar as far foward as it could go and as high as it would go. seems ok now. but it still rubs on the body if you take it off the road. My front springs are only soft but are a 2" lift but putting the winch on there you can tell it is saging a bit. I would get heavy spring for the front but i figure if i came across a washout and wasnot paying to much attention then i would still crash into the bumpstop and end up punching the tyres into the body with fairly bad results

So getting back to it I dont want to get a body lift as i want to keep the airbag. If i get the long travel suppension kit it comes with extended bump stops. do you think it would be ok with this as the bump stop clearence is more meaning more room between wheel and body, and being a long travel kit then i will not lose suspension travel?

The back rubs a little bit but i can fix this by chopping a bit more as it is just rubbing on the flare.

Any way ill post some pictures when i can. All i can say is it looks awesome with the new rubber