Thread: disco diff lock

thanks HSV, i just read an email to that effect from one of our members who, well, let's just say he knows the facts. the reason the guts were taken out was that the centre diff lock caused confusion within the software for the ETC.
the new d111 has an electronically controlled CDL linked to the ETC, as well as tons of other goodies (i've been promised) don't know any more unfortuntely

Gday Barney,

The interesting thing is that LR don't always get it right either. They said that activating the CDL on the Disco2 would cause "cascade" failures of the electronics if it were activated and run. this is despite the manuals saying that the CDL was left in there for dyno testing.

At a similar time they released the defender with the TD5 and a slightly different ETC system which I think only works across the axle.

yeah, i know. it's got me stuffed what goes through their heads. while i'm all for utilising available technology to make our life easier, sometimes things just need to be left alone-because they WORK.
god help us in the new fangled disco if it gets a glitch while crossing the simpson or the CSR. i s'pose that's what landrover assist is for. i'm glad i can fix most things on my ute my self. there is a lot of people out there who buy a 4wd for the first time and expect to be able to climb everest in it, who don't know the first principles of how or why a car works. these people are probably given a faulse sense of security by the advertisers of a go anywhere vehicle that will conquer anything, unfortunately these people are not only a danger to themselves but their rescuers aswell.

BTW, welcome to aulro slunnie, i haven't seen you on here before. (this is where i've been hanging out)

Thanks for the welcome Barney. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img] I check in here every now and then.

Interesting point. I was in the desert and the Disco's tranny went into limp mode for some reason. Fortunately it cleared pretty quickly, though it left me scratching my head.

that would have been a tense moment. nothing worse than something playing up when you need it most

The early series 2 cars had standard transfer boxes ie the spiggot for the diff lock linkage is there but not connected to anything. The later Series 2 cars don't have this nor do they have any of the lock components inside the box. 03/04 cars for the Australian market have the diff lock fitted again however, due to market forces. In most other markets it is an option. You can retro fit the later S2 cars but you have to strip the front of the transfer case including replacing the front houseing and fitting all internal lock components.

shaunp, i've got it from a pretty god source that most of the components are still there, just the parts that allow the locking mechanism to move are missing. thus rendering the whole thing inoperable unless, as you said, you remove the transfer, strip it down and rebuild it with the missing parts included.

You can do it in the car I reckon. If your box does not have the linkage spigot on top you need the get a new housing as well or machine/ drill old one to take the selector shaft.