ok im shore some one would have done this b4 BUT i have serched and nothing has been found..
thinking of just replacing my whole coily front diff (housieing etc) with one from a WT, and just change ring and pinion to suit?
im shore it would have been done b4 but for the life of me i carnt find any info?
help?
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Coily front end.. wt diff?
This is something I have contemplated myself, but every time i look at it i can't see the justification.
As for width, never measured it myself, but from info i can find, the wheel track between a Coily and WT are the same, but the Coily has a different offset wheel, so it would make the WMS-WMS wider on the coily, so going to a WT axle will narrow the track slightly, but not by a significant amount.
As far as steering is concerned, the draglink is on the front just like a WT, which is the more important bit for steering box location. The tie rod is in a different spot, being on the rear unlike the front on a WT, but if you used a complete WT front end, that becomes irrelevant anyway.
Diff ratio is easy, just get rid of the 3.7 from the WT and get a 3.9 to match the rear.
Obviously you'd take this as an opportune time to throw away the the strut set up and revert to a Jimny style setup, also would have to go to a custom links to get rid of the stock ones, then out of all that also redesign the suspension to lower the roll stiffness to try and match the rear. Also move the axle forward a little to get more clearance in the back of the guards.
Whilst it may resolve the front end issue, give options to stronger parts and lose the need to have a locker modified to fit, it's where i get stuck on the idea. You've just ended up with a fair bit of custom work and really no further in front then just buying a WT and doing all the usual tried and tested modifications.
If going to that effort, may as well just go that bit more and throw something bigger underneath and play around with the rear to suit and stretch it out that end also. That way you only needed the chassis rails to begin with and it is irrelevant if it was a coily or WT you started out with.
As for width, never measured it myself, but from info i can find, the wheel track between a Coily and WT are the same, but the Coily has a different offset wheel, so it would make the WMS-WMS wider on the coily, so going to a WT axle will narrow the track slightly, but not by a significant amount.
As far as steering is concerned, the draglink is on the front just like a WT, which is the more important bit for steering box location. The tie rod is in a different spot, being on the rear unlike the front on a WT, but if you used a complete WT front end, that becomes irrelevant anyway.
Diff ratio is easy, just get rid of the 3.7 from the WT and get a 3.9 to match the rear.
Obviously you'd take this as an opportune time to throw away the the strut set up and revert to a Jimny style setup, also would have to go to a custom links to get rid of the stock ones, then out of all that also redesign the suspension to lower the roll stiffness to try and match the rear. Also move the axle forward a little to get more clearance in the back of the guards.
Whilst it may resolve the front end issue, give options to stronger parts and lose the need to have a locker modified to fit, it's where i get stuck on the idea. You've just ended up with a fair bit of custom work and really no further in front then just buying a WT and doing all the usual tried and tested modifications.
If going to that effort, may as well just go that bit more and throw something bigger underneath and play around with the rear to suit and stretch it out that end also. That way you only needed the chassis rails to begin with and it is irrelevant if it was a coily or WT you started out with.
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coily diffs also use vitara stub axles and bearing arrangement. i'v done a few conversions now coverting from high pinion to low pinion so people can run airlockers and diff gears. there is a fair bit involved ie- machining etc, but the results were good.
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