Thread: LT 95 low range gears.

Originally Posted by uninformed

i thought the term "perentie" only referred to the "wide body 6x6" not the normal army 6x6???

and normal 6x6's where sold to the civilan market as well.

Serg

IIRC 'Perentie' referred to the entire programme, 4x4's and 6x6's.

Originally Posted by 123rover50

Thanks Isuzurover and Sparkie.
I bought the chassis and axles and cab off a bloke in Sydney who bought them new at a JRA auction and didnt finish his project.
The axles I have posted on here before trying to determine what they are.
The forum decided they are Borg Warner diffs and we are not sure on the difflocks as they have the same actuator as the centre diff.
I tried to put a photo of the truck on ,but as it is already on under "The grey box of evil." it would not upload again.
Its a Forward Control and weighs around 4 tonnes, we get about 4 to 4.5 K,s per litre.

You found it. the one on the left is Isuzu with LT95 . The other is the Chevy.
Cheers. Didiman.

Originally Posted by DeeJay

Originally Posted by 123rover50

You found it. the one on the left is Isuzu with LT95 . The other is the Chevy.
Cheers. Didiman.

Two seriously nice looking rigs.

I have been considering putting a 2DR rangie cab on my 6x6 chassis but after seeing yours I might reconsider, how did you go getting it through rego etc. Is the chev diesel N/A or turbo?

Lyle.

Wow - more pics and specs of both FCs are needed!

Originally Posted by Sparkie

Two seriously nice looking rigs.

I have been considering putting a 2DR rangie cab on my 6x6 chassis but after seeing yours I might reconsider, how did you go getting it through rego etc. Is the chev diesel N/A or turbo?

Lyle.

Its only a 6.2 NA. Being a self funded retiree {possibly too early} the drip feed is not up to much and could not afford the extra for the 6.5.
Machinery was fairly easy. The bloke came here and had a look at what I was doing when the donk was in but no body. Then came back when it was finished for a road test. More concerned about brakes. He had this computer and inertia device in the cab, with a pressure pad on the brake pedal and we spent about 2 hours driving up and down the road locking up the back wheels. one moment I was pushing too hard the next not hard enough. He checked all the lights for ADR and then said that two wipers were not enough for the big screen. I said that is what they came with but had to change to three. A week later he rang back and said two was OK he was wrong, but by then I had lengthened the cable and put 3 blades on.
I still has drums on the rear I put a VH44 booster on each axle and a VH40 on the disc front.

Originally Posted by isuzurover

Wow - more pics and specs of both FCs are needed!

If you are interested . In the"" introductions"" Forum is the story and pics of when I found the 110FC in Bougainville in 1973 or so. then in the Forward Control forum is the rest of the story of the mods and some pics. I think you have to put my user name in the search and it should come up.
Cheers .Didiman.

Originally Posted by rick130

IIRC 'Perentie' referred to the entire programme, 4x4's and 6x6's.

The term Perentie came from the Australian Army trials to select the vehicle for the next vehicle contract. Named "Project Perentie" which includes all the 110 and 6X6 variants, including the Toyota Land Cruiser and Jeep. Strictly speaking only the vehicles that took part in the trials should be called Perentie and the production ones Rover 110s and Rover 6X6.