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I have -90 RRC with 3.9 efi, and it has had problematic idle, and it was quite thirsty, but the car worked fine, I drove several thousand kilometers and towed a heavy trailer, too. The AFM connector was loose, now it idles OK and the fuel consumption has come down a lot. Funny, but the engine feels ...

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more info & pics here (but in finnish...):
http://www.petrisimolin.com/Thepalsta/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=23935

There are several parallel "task forces" in Finland to make disc brakes for volvo portals, this is "just" one, but perhaps one with most progress. Toyo discs + patrol calipers and 6-bolt ...

Maybe I could post a couple of new pics of my rangie?

Traditional "after xmas wheeling day" for our club, here on the ice of the sea:

http://stiletti.wipsl.com/albums/album199/DSC08331.sized.jpg

A week ago, a few colleagues from the office trying something new, I was in the passenger seat and ...

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here is mine:1988 3.5 efi auto, portal axles from Volvo C303 (1:5.99 total axle gearing), ...

Task list: disc brakes, ...

-Paavo

Paavo,

I've been looking at this also, and I would like to know what you are going to do for disc brakes on the volvo portals.

John

There is an ...

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here is mine:1988 3.5 efi auto, portal axles from Volvo C303 (1:5.99 total axle gearing), Q78-16 TSL's, Warn HS9500 and homemade bumpers front & rear, simple roll cage but requires back seat to be taken out.

Quite recent pic, winch & bull bar removed, I broke the winch a month ago in an ...

Hi, Where could I Buy Portal Axles? That's not difficult, since I've managed to do that...

A friend of mine has a wild plan, that includes BMW V12 engine and volvo portals, he just bought a C306. H ehas an idea of modifying the volvo drive shaft (see part #16: m ) to be suitable for toyo (HJ60 ...

Thanks for the pics! The pitmanarm / track rod assembly is very clear now, I just need to locate a LR 101 trackrod end and get the part that fits in the place of pitman arm ball but has a hole in it.

I have not received your e-mail, but the missing pic6 would be interesting as well, original ...

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we had another event in Raajärvi a week ago:

http://stiletti.wipsl.com/gallery/album117
http://stiletti.wipsl.com/videot/OffRoa ... aretki.wmv (204MB, 14min 12sec).

This time we did not use the camera that much, driving was more fun.

Daddylonglegs, pics of the pitman arm?

-Paavo

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I think I may have mentioned this before, but to raise the height of the draglink ball joint when I fitted Volvos to a 110 Landy I removed the ball and seats from the Landy Pitman arm and pressed in a machined piece of steel with a tapered hole to match a LandRover tierod end. This raises ...

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Paavo, I know that photos, depending on the angle the camera was held at can sometimes alter the perspective of a picture but it appears that the Panhard rod and the drag link are a long way from being parallel . Does Mikes vehicle bump steer much ?

Seems like that, panhard rod and drag ...

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> The videos are not working for me

Hmm.. you have media player v9? I used windows movie maker (v2) with the those, so the codecs used sure are microsoft ones.

> Any verdict on Volvo vs Mog portals?

Volvos are a lot (ten times?) easier to install. The diff is in the wrong side in ...

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here are some pics from an event that was arranged mid-July in Raajärvi in Northern Finland. There were several rangies, but also other makes (toyos etc.), two of the range rovers have portal axles, volvos in mine and mogs in Mika's, it's a white 2-door one, it also has tractor type tyres, I ...

OneMoreThing, here are some pics of C303 & C306, the 3-axle truck did not have bed so the rear axles were well visible:

http://stiletti.wipsl.com/gallery/album36

There were 3 C303's, the "newest" had 4000km (!), the older ones around 10000km, price was 4000e for the whole truck ...

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> the pinion lenght??

It's very close (within 1cm I think, within 1" for sure) to range rover.

-Paavo

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> where do you get your CV's? Are they based on the old Rangie model or outright new CV's?

Made from something, I guess it's some LR CV, I only know the competition gyus (lots of power + 39" boggers) use those so it must be good enough for me. In case some1 needs CV's for volvo portals, e ...

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So what are the differences between the 6x6 axles and 4x4. I understand:

6x6 has 4-pin diff

6x6 has lower ratio - 7.?:1 ???

6x6 has rear diff(s) closer to centre or centred?

Yep. I think it's 7.05:1 or 7.56:1, maybe wilsby knows better?

what about the front?

Don't know, when I was ...

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Paavo, do you know if the 6x6 centers swap inte the 4x4 axles? The 6x6 axles are considered less desirable, and hence cheaper. There may be some economy in getting them for just the centers. I guess you want the R&P to swap as well, but do they fit on the beefier centers?

I guess 6x6 ...

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> heavy duty 6x6 4 pinion diff. any photos ?

Hmm.... <goes looking>... <googles> found this:

http://stiletti.wipsl.com/~ptl/Volvo_man_p1.jpg

See upper lefthand corner.

-Paavo

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a couple of things:

- volvo stock rim is 16"*7.5" (at least the ones I have, several sets)
- 15" rims can be used with less backspacing (my *guess* is 2" each side?)
- xtremeaxle suggested using 17" custom rims with their willwood disc brakes, I ended up using stock brakes (drums suck ...

Drum brakes sucks. Period.

Here is an example what happens when you take drums to the mud/swamp:

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Needless to say that braking was quite "interesting" every time...

I miss original rangie disc brakes so ...

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I already bought 1.003 xfer box, but I won't install that, I don't need to drive faster than 80 km/h and then I have 2500 rpm (or actually a bit more, I have non-standard alternator and the wheel in it is slightly bigger, real rpm is anyway below 3k), and that's fine for me, Q78-16 super ...

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one more thing I forgot to mention: volvo portals don't get hot on highway, or at least they take hours of 80km/h (55mph) very easy, front portals are very close to ambient temperature, rear ones are slightly warmer, guess maybe 5 to 10 degrees celsius.

But I have overfilled mine, there is ...

and here goes my 2 cents...

The place I got my volvo axles from, there were 2 guys removing dana 60's from a comp rig (swedish monsterrace, ~150m straight line with jumps &mud holes), and putting volvo axles under it instead. I said "you need more clearance?" but they said "no, we need more ...

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the mog-rangie had a jeep xfer box I think... or something, now I'm not sure about it, the selection criteria however was to match the diff locations, i.e minimise the horizontal propshaft angles.

-Paavo

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here http&#58;//stiletti&#46;wipsl&#46;com/gallery/album93?page=3 are a few (not that detailed) pics of a mog-rangie, we met on an event a month ago. That vehicle is street legan in Finland, but required a special permission from the "street legal authority" (cannot figure out what ...

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I have very recently upgraded my Rangie with a Wolf 3D…. some after market ECU’s control EVERYTHING, IGN, Fuel and Air/com stepper motor etc

I am very impressed with the outcome of replacing my Rangie in respect to fuel economy and power/ torque!!! (will post Dyno chart when I get them ...

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this picture shows how much my front pinion angle has been tilted (given that the caster angle is close to original, I think it is):



Anybody guess how many degrees that is?

-Paavo

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I have opened the front diff only so far, and it did have the "spring loaded brass oil scrapers for lubricating the pinion bearings". The diff is tilted upwards, but I hope the oil 300% overfill will cope with that...

But tilting less than that would have meant more work, now the new holes ...

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I'm the owner of the car shown in the 1st post of this thread, and it's quite interesting to see pictures of it so far away...

Anyway, maybe you folks might be interested in for more details? Stop reading if Volvo portals in a RR sounds dull.

The starting point was '88 RRC with std 3.5 ...