Thread: So I think I'm about to **** off some purists.... sorry

Yep I made my own axle doing what you have suggested......hopefully the series stubs are the same as sals stubs, less matching. My axle was for my camper trailer.

Do leaf car have a panard rod??

How/where do the shocks mounts.

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

To what end?
Bear in mind the front wheels will need to rotate at different speeds.

He said he was going to remove the centre

Originally Posted by pop058

He said he was going to remove the centre

I think he means getting rid of the diff housing all together....and just stub/hub assemblies.

If you are removing the swivel housings off the diff housing there's no real reason why you can't fabricate a replacement axle to replace the housing. Fit the mounting flanges slightly higher than the centre of the axle, but look out for the steering gear. Also I'd use heavy wall tube not solid bar, keeps a bit of rigidity to the front end. Stripped of CVs and axles the swivel hubs should function quite adequately.

I am doing this to my series 3 swb, basically going to slam it as low as I can and keep it stock

I'd go as far as having a drop axle either forged or bent out of heavy wall tube, gives the sump clearance you need and you'll get it right on the deck then.

That's how I'd always envisaged building a Slam'd Rover...

I'm sure if you googled 'FUV' 2wd Series 1 & 2 these were specially made for the RAF, they had a tube front axle, there would have to some information about them somewhere, cheers Dennis

Originally Posted by oyamum

Righto guys the series is in the shed and Iv unbolted the front suspension and started susing out how low I can go.

So this may seem like a silly question but I noticed on the front diff housing there are flanges in either end and I'm thinking if if I unbolt those flanges and remove the centre of the diff and see if I can get a straight solid round axle with some machined flanges on the ends is it possible to bolt the ends on? I'm sure this sounds like I'm talking jibberish but I hope you guys understand me lol

One of my Jeeps (late 60's J2000) was a 2WD with a Rockwell Standard front beam axle. (Imported for some big mining project way back then)
Basically a big, straight tube between the king pin assemblies to which standard Jeep hubs bolted, sort of similar to what you're proposing.

After we ran out of king pin bush kits I just bolted a standard Dana 44 front end in that I had lying around, (it was supposed to go into my CJ6) it just didn't have a front prop or Dana t/case.
If I wasn't so lazy I could've pulled the axles and centre.

A slammed Series 1 would be oh so cool, enough I could envisage that as a project one day.
I actually wanted to do a lowered and Holden 304 repowered two door RRC with nice BWA mags and small flares once upon a time.