Hi all.

Well, the sin has been committed.
Am not a mud player nor a hill climber, I will always stay in pavement; this 2000 Disco II came to my hands by other reasons than off-roading.

Disconnected the transfer case differential lock sensor plug;
Locked the transfer case differential;
Removed both front shafts intact and put them to sleep in storage;
Plugged the axle end seal openings;
Installed spare CV joints outer shaft ends only;
Am working on capping them properly...
Removed the front driveshaft and put it to sleep in storage.

Fully reversible at any time. Vehicle runs noticeable smoother.

Will find out at some point where I goofed.

 

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Any pix of this? As these trucks age, others may be forced by fiscal reality to perform the same surgery.

 

Holy burnouts! Should be interesting when your traction control tries to lock both rear wheels. Hopefully you don't live where it snows!

 

You castrated it.
You rover will now not have relations with other rovers.
And, you will keep the stray rover population in your area down.

 

Post some pictures here if you can..
Would be interesting to see.

 

Should of made it front wheel drive so it really would be pointless.

 

Only one problem, others have done this, no change in MPG but a blown rear diff a few thousand miles later.

 

bazinga!!

 

Exactly.

They didn't just bolt up random hardware that was overengineered 200% over normally anticipated driving conditions.

Everything on your vehicle was engineered and calculated to work within a SET mathematical limit / tolerance based on shared driveline stress through the transfer case at a set ratio. Not only will the t-case only see load through one side, but as others have stated, this far exceeds the usual duty cycle of the rear differential. Again, that component was chosen based on shared tolerances with a front diff, and heating/stresses will FAR exceed what the car was designed for.

Use your head dude, if it was that simple (and if there was any benefit) they would simply let you choose 4wd when needed. It's an AWD vehicle and was designed that way - 2wd isn't a "choice" it's just something that happens to be possible due to 4wd features like CDL.

FWIW I had to do this ONE TIME while my front driveshaft was being rebuilt, and it is indeed smoother and more quiet.. but if that's what you wanted, why the hell are you driving a 5000lb SUV designed 14 years ago with live axle suspension, 4 speed trans, and a V8?