Thread: Selectro front hubs

Originally Posted by solmanic

<sipp> ...I'm not disputing this will happen if some peanut never engages their hubs, only questioning the idea the hubs should never be disengaged or that there is no benefit in disengaging hubs. <I'm suggesting people remove their freewheel hubs and fit the original flanges - as from personal experience from the early 1970's using both freewheel hubs and not using the hubs - I believe the disadvantages far outweigh any benefits of almost indistinguishable fuel savings>
This is physics 101. More moving parts no matter how well lubed will have a higher rolling resistance than less moving parts. And I thought there was a wealth of evidence that they improved economy. I just Googled this out of curiosity and got no hits suggesting otherwise. <Even Wikipedia with millions of potential contributors has found no evidence and in the same paragraph mentions the disadvantages - Locking hubs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia >
I said part-time 4WDs. As far as I am aware the standard fitment of free-wheeling hubs to Japanese 4WDs accounts for the majority. Incidentally, what part-time 4WDs have been marketed without free-wheeling hubs since, say 1980? This is a genuine question as I can't think of any.

Seeing that this is a Land Rover forum - Land Rover, the SIII part time 4WD continued to be marketed alongside the Stage 1 until the 110 and 90 models were released. Santana (Metalurgica de Santa Ana) were making part time 4WD based on the LT230 without FW hubs, (and apparently still are) in fact the Santana gearset will fit inside a Land Rover LT230 giving you a part time 4WD)


Then there were Subaru part time 4WD Leonie and Brumby with no freewheel hubs. Probably the Indian Tata and Mahindra

Originally Posted by Scallops

Lucky I didn't mention the dirty fork!

or the war

I tried to remove the AVM fwhs from Arfa tonight - got all the hub bolts out but it wouldn't release. What's the trick for getting them off?

Is there a roll-pin or screws holding the outside of the thing in place?

One of mine fell off because it was knackered but the other one had fasteners that I couldn't budge, so I ended up chain-drilling the aluminium casting and breaking it off with a hammer,

Cheers Charlie

Looks like it has 6 bolts:

Products AVM

scroll down to where it says Land Rover