Anyone put GQ diffs under their RR

[ISUZUROVER]

broke a disco rear 24 spline axle today, clean break. So over Rover shit.

Bring on the Nissans.

will have the 4.1 maxi CWP and a ARB locker for sale soon

why do you want to run 80 series diffs??? those guys break front CWP alot and CV's aren't strong either.

What were you doing to break it DAS, and was it a genuine, cheap aftermarket or maxi-drive or macnamara.

Just before I bought my maxi drive I snapped a 24 spline salisbury axle (behind a 2.25D (previously 2.25P). When I bought the maxi I showed Mal the broken stub and the first thing he said was that it was a non-genuine axle and that is why it broke (cheaply made from the wrong materials and not hardened properly).

I have lost count of the number of Nissan CV's I have seen/heard break in competitions (35 and 36" wheels), yet longfielded toy CV's seem to withstand bigger tyres without problems.

[GURU]

Standard disco axle

I was doing f**k all, just over idle in low range in acouple of medium sized holes with maily loose dirt (don't even remember if locker was in)

I'm going Nissans, have technology to make the CV's stronger (I think I can get them at least as strong as longfields)

[TuffRR]

I thought that the GU CV's were holding up quite well and were much stronger than the GQ ones. Why not look at putting GU axles underneath?

[GURU]

reason for not fitting GU axles is cost. plus you can fit GU Cv's in GQ diffs so thats an option later

[derangedrover]

Where did you get your info about fitting GU cv's? I thought I had read in here they were physically too big to fit in the GQ knuckle?

Cheers
Daryl

[A*D*A*M]

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"I had not considered the Cruiser diffs. That may be a good option. I have a 80 series here so I will measure the track and see how close it is."


Maller,

Did you get a chance to run a tape-measure over the 80 series diffs? If so, how similar are spring mounts, trailing/control arm mountings, etc?

Adam.

[landy_man]

in my opinion you are still going to get a stronger front end with bundera/'cruiser high pinion diff, custom 30 spline axles and the new cromo/300M longfield cv's in a rover housing and most probably cheaper if not the same $$$ as swapping in a gq/80 series complete axle

even with the "normal" longfields I reckon it will be stronger

[GURU]

in my opinion you are still going to get a stronger front end with bundera/'cruiser high pinion diff, custom 30 spline axles and the new cromo/300M longfield cv's in a rover housing and most probably cheaper if not the same $$$ as swapping in a gq/80 series complete axle

even with the "normal" longfields I reckon it will be stronger

Dreaming....Nissan will be cheaper. And you don't need need stronger axles in a nissan as they are strong enough Stock. Nissan got it right first time and there is no need to change it. Same goes for rear axles.

Nissan diff centres don't break....Toyota's do.