Outer Limits 4x4 Board

IMO you will feel the 3.9 peppier with ZF, at least if you are not very aggresive with your gear changes on manual. Just kick down and get instant power. When i changed from lt77 to TF727 on my old 3.5 I felt it as a power increase, because I used more revs and smoother full throttle accelerations ...

Brown/yellow or yellow/brown seems right, but could remember it wrong.

Connects to alt.

T

How about Merc, Audi and BMW passenger/luxury V8 diesels? They have massive specs. Prolly quite expensive, with electronic control and all, but so is the Duramax I believe. I would guess about half the weight of a cummins 5.9 but still more than enough torque to blow out most everything.

T

Interference between panhard and track roc is exactly the problem we have with the Volvos on the rangie. That's why we thought about rear mounted track rod. As it stands now we limit axle up-travel by approx 50mm, which is a bad thing in a portal rig, since it is high enough already. Yes with rear ...

tobbjo the 6x6 is stronger than the 4x4 due to the extra 2 spider gears? The diff internals are Range Rover ?? so if i want to regear i just use range rover Ring and Pinions? The axles are Range Rover as well? What model and year? Thanks I have no hands on experience with 6x6 / 4-pin diffs, but ...

The R&P gearing is 2.91:1 in 4x4 and 3.44:1 in 6x6.
With the portal's 2.06:1 it makes 5.99:1 and 7.08:1 respectively.

Tobias

Bill, please elaborate on that book. I.e. ISBN number or other info on how to get it. Searched Amazon, but no book listed under that name. On the portalled rangie we played with the thought of moving the tie roc behind the axle for steering box clearance, but that would give negative Ackerman, which ...