strong landrover diffs

Joined: 21 Aug 2003 Location: Upper Hunter Valley NSW

Don't know if this really applies where people have exploded CV's off road but......

A couple of things I used to do to race car CV's when new to help in the reliability and efficiency stakes where, after machining the centre of the OD down to buggery to save weight was to relieve the cages where the balls sat, and polish and relieve the race ways in the outer.

Lobro CV's were ridiculously tight from the factory, sometimes to the point of not being able to plunge properly during suspension cycling, making a car hop across the track. Bloody disconcerting for the driver.

After machining the outer I would always grab the die grinder and relieve the cage so the balls would fall through easily, then use a flapper wheel in the die grinder to relieve and polish the tracks on the star and outer.

It made a huge difference to the reliability (no more broken cages) and running temperature of the CV's.

rick

Joined: 22 Jul 2003 Location: melbourne

das, use the yellow pages, i don't like pushing workshops on people but if people are looking for stuff on the forum i will help. i believe thats the spirit of the forum????
if you struggle pm me .

maybe after the rockwell has been dropped and the ring welded on the cryogen??? liquid stuff hardens the outersurface??
Confused

Joined: 22 Dec 2002 Location: Auburn California USA

modman wrote:

i've scanned every pic on bcb's site to look at coopers rig.
i'm also interested in their part time conversion for the lt 230
i wish they had a catalogue of their gear!!
all the stuff i see on the bcb site makes me drool big time, i'm learning metal fabrication and machining part time, so i hope i can attampt this kind of stuff in the future
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Found this while doing research, & thought you might want to see.

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=56022

-Jeff

Joined: 22 Jul 2003 Location: melbourne

drool drool drool!!!!!!!!
i'm impressed by function over looks. (but still looks tuff)
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