Cv's are weak by nature, though.


Dusty gets stuck in 3 feets of clay, turns hard left, and floors it in reverse in a last ditch effort to get out and blows his CVs... then, picks up the CV's ***** he can find, and shoots squirrels with them until there are more than 3 winches on scene to pull him out


Also, fwiw, I'm doing an axle swap soon to ditch the rover stuff all together. No more Land Rover axles for me.

 

LOL, what do you expect they weren't designed for some uses. If you want a true mud plugger get one of these........................ http://www.winget.co.uk/document/OPS...%20DUMPERS.pdf

 

Since the rover has the exposed CV's it would be cool if someone could just make a U-joint style axle conversion instead. Its at least serviceable and would be cheap to replace.

 

I have no comprehension of cv joints, how they function or what setup works best off road. The way my buddy talked, these drive trains were weak in general so my question is do I really have to change out my drive train system just to do moderate off roaring with my truck? Or can my truck handle it? I'm talking about river crossings, steep hills, ruts, some mud. Not interested in the extreme offroading like rock crawling or anything like that. but yeah this guy is building a series using a Ford dullay drive train......

 

You should be fine with what you have. Just don't jump it, or do jump it and get it on film, I think its hilarious watching them jump.

A series land rover with a ford frame? Bleh.

 

Freelanders are good for jumping it seems.

 

I have seen a youtube video of a couple guys beating the **** out of a D1. They went off a huge jump with the truck and I must say Im impressed with how well it faired. But no I have no interest in doing any extreme over the top things like that with my girl. Some off roading and participate in some Rover events but shes still my daily driver and I depend on her to get to work so.

Heres a link to the album labled "Land Rover 109 Super Duty"
https://www.facebook.com/don.trudeau...9376247&type=3

 

They used to have them Dane, swivel hubs and drive shafts with UJ's but they were great offroad but noisy and no good for high speed highway work. If you want a bomb proof axle fit a late Series HD one which had the stronger uprated driveshafts (early shafts broke).

http://www.google.fr/imgres?imgurl=h...QEwAw&dur=1053

The Salisbury axle had the later shafts with more splines on them. It was a lot stronger but these axles cost serious wonga.

https://www.google.fr/search?q=land+...w=1097&bih=605

 

What about using a H1 hummer drivetrain system on a Rover?....... They are waterproof and probably can take one hell of a beating.

 

its an independent suspension. Wont work. Plus Hummers suck.


I'm putting FZJ80 (80 series Land Cruiser) axles under my truck this summer.