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Hey guys,
I'm in touch with Chad at Dobbin Engineering because I was curious to know if an X-Link for LR was planned.
Chad said they did plan,but it seems there's not enough demand at the mo.
They could study/develope a kit though,they just need a test rig to engineer off...
So,any volunteer?
I'd happily drive my 90 straight to their door but it's an hell of a trip from Italy!
I live right down the road from dobbin, Infact got to go chat with him later this week. My 88 RR Classic is a weekend car, maybe he can use that to set it up???
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MY05 4.4L V8 Range Rover Vogue
Series 2a Buggy....In the Building
I am ceratainly keen on the XLink for a RRC, a bit far from Perth to volunteer my car though. I hope this does happen.....worst case a few of us could chip in and buy an old dunger to send to Dobbin.
82 Rangie with lots of bits for comps
98 GU patrol with lots of bits for touring
Bush65 wrote:The biggest problem is that the axle end mount for the panhard rod is part of the front bracket for the radius arm.
This bracket has to be removed to fit an X-link.
I think Glen would only need the axle case and possibly a radius arm.
The other thing that Glen may not know, is that later radius arms have wider bushes.
I have an X-link for my rangie, but the front axle is not rover.
I have a lot of things to over the next 2 months, after that if nothing has happened I will take this up with Chad and Glen.
there are a few things to get right on the rovers, they are not as straight forward as the nissan or the toyota but not impossable all input is noted thats for sure.
To the best way to engineer it is to have a complete car in our workshop that makes for no guess work.
another thing we need to know is as stated the differences in all the modles ie the bush difference(how wide)
There should be only two versions of the radius arms, wide and narrow which changed in the early 90s sometime. I think it is 37 and 44 mm width.
Also if you are going international (i.e. Michelle) you need to understand the difference in the LHD/RHD panhard rod mounts. I fyou need photos of a LHD or measurement let me know.
red90 wrote:There should be only two versions of the radius arms, wide and narrow which changed in the early 90s sometime. I think it is 37 and 44 mm width.
Also if you are going international (i.e. Michelle) you need to understand the difference in the LHD/RHD panhard rod mounts. I fyou need photos of a LHD or measurement let me know.
Awesome!
Yeah this was my greatest concern.Are they mirrored exactly?
send in the pics if you can.I'll try to get the chassis specs to work off too.
Sound like this could make the front work as well as the rear and just to add on the bush sizing my 89 has actualy got the bigger sized bushes and radius arms are bigger than earlier ie. my 85 model. Not sure exactly when they changed but pretty sure it was during 89.
Hope this is of any help.
red90 wrote:There should be only two versions of the radius arms, wide and narrow which changed in the early 90s sometime. I think it is 37 and 44 mm width.
Also if you are going international (i.e. Michelle) you need to understand the difference in the LHD/RHD panhard rod mounts. I fyou need photos of a LHD or measurement let me know.
Awesome!
Yeah this was my greatest concern.Are they mirrored exactly?
send in the pics if you can.I'll try to get the chassis specs to work off too.
Chad
On second thought you should be able to figure it out. The axle casings have both LHD and RHD panhard rod mounts built in. The chassis side mount just mirrors over.
Looks like the rover XLink is a bit more complex than we first thought.
we were able to study a rover today at great lenghts a few thing we found were that the panard mount is in a bad spot for the Xlink. this can be fixed but we also found that the radious arms are far to close to the diff to offer the correct amount of movment the Xlink needs and also the tie rod sits all to close to the radious arms at the rear of the diff.
having said that at this stage we are not going to manufacture these as a production line product.what we can offer to people is a full custom setup. This will be alot more involved to setup and engineer than what we first anticipated so the build up like this might not be for all.
we can offer an XLink to the nissan diff and from what i can gather this is becomming a common mod for the rangies to do.
we are happy to discuss some options for the people that had there heart set on a rover XLink all you need to do is call me on 0418441064 after 2pm.
and I doubt he'd do the work at a price I like 
