Thread: weak axles

Originally Posted by Jeff

Or the drive flanges. I broke a short side axle in my 202 powered 2A doing a hill start on he road, then put in a Salisbury, my next 2A had a Salisbury and so has my Defender and all have had to have the drive flanges replaced. I suppose it's easier than axles.

Jeff

Usually when the drive flanges wear, the axle splines also wear. Were your wheel bearings lubricated by the diff oil or were they the greased ones?

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

in the order of being likely to snap axles....

109 with a six and a rover diff at the end
109 with a diesel and rover diff
88 with a diesel
109 with a 4 pot
88 with the 4 pot petrol.

but if any of them have the sailsbury rear end.... you'll probabley take out the gearbox first.

the diesel engine is the same engine as the 2.25 petrol in essence its just had the head modded to make it a diesel and an injector pump slots in where the dizzy goes and has injectors instead of spark plugs.

torque is up on the diesels and overall power is down when compared to the same generation of petrol engine.

2.25 petrol = 124 ft/lb @ 2500, 2.6 petrol = 132 ft/lb @1500, 2.25 diesel = 103 ft/lb @ 1750 (Owners Manual Series 2a, p/n 4482).

But this does not tell the full story. Unlike the petrol engines, the diesel pulls strongly down to a stall, and even at maximum torque each cylinder gives a distinct pulse of torque - and this is what helps the axles to fail.

The only axle I have ever broken was in my diesel 2a in 1967, one rear diff in the current 2a petrol (broke the shaft the planet gears run on) - and one rear wheel bearing in the Series 1 in 1963. But when I drove my S2 up through the centre in 1964 I borrowed a pair of rear half shafts for the trip!

I have never had to replace a drive flange on any Landrover, including my 110 which is now approaching 500,000km.

John

Howdy guys, Heres one for you . I had stripped my donor landy down for bits and scrapped the rest and while pulling the drive shafts out we had noticed that the tail shaft was spinning and it still had the diff centre in and both axles ( this is the front diff) . we thought busted axles or diff centre but what had happened the axle had stripped the spline out of the left hand side axle hub . anyone ever seen that before ? ... i'm guessing it would be a rare thing ?

yeah I've seen it. not on a series tho and theres a certain D130 thats at risk of doing it to the right hand rear halfshaft AND its got maxidrives...