24 spline axles to county cvs

[andrew e]

im changing the front of my 86 county from a 10 spline open to a 24 spline arb locker, i want to keep the bigger cvs. i was quoted $753.50 for a set of maxidrive axles, which i thought was a bit steep, has anyone else gone down the same path and sourced axles from elsewhere? How much $$$$$

whats the breakage rate of others compared to maxi's? its just that at that price the axles would cost me more than my locker itself!

Andrew.

[ISUZUROVER]

Jacmac should make them as well. Judging by material strength (MD-hytuf JM-EN25) they may be a bit weaker than MD but I doubt you would ever break them.

[def90]

i recently bought F & R jacmac axles from melbourne and they cost roughly $550 for the front.

[jbell]

I have an 86 110 also & doing the same thing at the

moment. Jacmac quote 550. But I can get a pair of disco

c.v.,axels& brakes cheaper so I`m going to give them a go.

I never broke anything on my RR with a similar set up.

So i`ll wait and see what happens. Also going to 4.1 R&P.

The sals back end is a delema, thinking of changing that to a

disco houseing as well as I already have a locker & axels to suit,

then at least i`d have rear discs, just have to lengthen rear tail

shaft i think as the sals is longer, anyway good luck with yours.

JEFF

[modman]

salisbury rear end is easy to change ratios,
its the same as a dana 60 so there is plenty of ratios available
4.11 is very common because a lot of the bigger ford f trucks had these gears.
if you want to put discs on the rear of a drum braked defender/county-
use defender bolt on caliper mounts(there were some 95-98??)
county rear spindles
county front hubs
i believe the hubs need to be machined because the disc is thicker than the drum brake gear.
this way you get the widest spaced bearings and disc brakes.
david

[discokid]

Jeff

I can show you my sals its disc brake converted and running dana gears
in an 85 housing

I had to get Maxidrive to make the axles 25mm longer as I used my original disco outers

Still need to mod the tailshaft as the dana gears have a different coupling

Im running 4.11

[mickrangie]

im changing the front of my 86 county from a 10 spline open to a 24 spline arb locker, i want to keep the bigger cvs. i was quoted $753.50 for a set of maxidrive axles, which i thought was a bit steep, has anyone else gone down the same path and sourced axles from elsewhere? How much $$$$$

whats the breakage rate of others compared to maxi's? its just that at that price the axles would cost me more than my locker itself!

Andrew.

I am currently doing an opp on my 93 Rangie going back to 86/87 CV's with early model hub... I get to keep my vented dsic and 4 sopt calipars (whoohoooooo) I am using Maxi Axles (don't buy from Maxi direct u will get cheaper price) with 4.11 R&P I like the idea of having a easy to get to fuse IF somthing goes wrong.... but i am not sure if it's going to be any better (cv's that is) then my fine spline that were in there before... anyway time will tell

Mick