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r138 air locker rear diff,, defender

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r138 air locker rear diff,, defender

Post by stig0000 »

hey all, first post on this site after a lil look around, seems like there are some pretty serious cars on here, and landrovers, :cool:

on mine im after a r138 airlocker for the rear diff of my 05 td5 fender,

they are very hard to come buy, the only place is to import from the US,

any one on here no of eny S/H or new lockers going around??,,
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Post by ISUZUROVER »

They have only existed for a few years - so buckleys SH.

Buy a sals already!!! Otherwise you will regret it!
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Post by red90 »

Find a used Salisbury and put in a Maxi-Drive.
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Post by ISUZUROVER »

red90 wrote:Find a used Salisbury and put in a Maxi-Drive.
What he said. MR Automotive will have MD Lockers available again in 2 weeks, or you can pick up a complete sals with locker SH if you can find one.
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Post by Slunnie »

You'll probably import it from the US cheaper than buying it from Australia anyway. Just import it. The bloke is excellent to import from:
http://www.lucky8llc.com/Products.asp?ProductID=2146

Personally I think the ARB is better than the maxi-drive anyway.
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Post by Micka »

With the exception of the Original Poster...You're all a bunch of pansies :finger:

Get a Salsbury for the rear with a 35 spline Detroit locker and get Keith from RoverTracks to build you some 1.5" diameter 35 spline axels. Then wheel it.

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Post by uninformed »

any of you guys priced sals rears? if you know of a cheap one let me know....has to be coil sprung either drum or disc
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Post by 91rangie »

You could do what I did and simply find a sals from a series cut the tubes off and do the same to your diff and weld them on, had custom hd axels made here far cheaper than importing from US.
Worked out alot cheaper for me than trying to find a sals with abs, disc's and correct pinion angle for lift.
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Post by ISUZUROVER »

91rangie wrote:You could do what I did and simply find a sals from a series cut the tubes off and do the same to your diff and weld them on, had custom hd axels made here far cheaper than importing from US.
Worked out alot cheaper for me than trying to find a sals with abs, disc's and correct pinion angle for lift.
Are you saying you fitted rover axle tubes to a sals?

The short side axle and axle tube is the same on a series and defender. The only problems with converting one are that the defender sals has a mount for the A-frame cast in as well as a bump stop pad on the short side.

So you can just lengthen the long side by 6" to convert a series sals to a defender, but then you need to sort out the a-frame and bump stop issues if you are keeping the standard suspension links.




Serg, I may have one for sale (110) if you can't find anything closer.
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Post by ISUZUROVER »

Micka wrote:With the exception of the Original Poster...You're all a bunch of pansies :finger:

Get a Salsbury for the rear with a 35 spline Detroit locker and get Keith from RoverTracks to build you some 1.5" diameter 35 spline axels. Then wheel it.

Welcome to the site, Stig.
Does Keith do stub axles (spindles) as well?
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Post by Micka »

ISUZUROVER wrote:
Micka wrote:With the exception of the Original Poster...You're all a bunch of pansies :finger:

Get a Salsbury for the rear with a 35 spline Detroit locker and get Keith from RoverTracks to build you some 1.5" diameter 35 spline axels. Then wheel it.

Welcome to the site, Stig.
Does Keith do stub axles (spindles) as well?
He can build the whole diff for you if you want to pay for it, so yeah I would imagine that he would. He also does SpiderTracks housings and some way cool Rover9 custom jobbies.
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Post by red90 »

The 35 spline Sals is nice, but it IS quite expensive to do.

People need to stop going overkill on everything. I'm guess this guy does not need that.... Horses for courses.....

A Maxi-drive for a Sals is a good bang for the buck as it retains the stock diff. An ARB plus proper shafts costs quite a bit more.
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Post by Micka »

red90 wrote:People need to stop going overkill on everything.
I only do 'overkill' on the parts that are renowned for breaking.
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