Will Disco move without the front driveshaft?
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The answer depends on what year your truck is. If it is a 1999 through mid-2001, I recall, or if it is a 2004, then yes, you can lock the center differential and drive your truck without the front driveshaft in place. Just do a search for "CDL nipple." Unless you have a 2004, in which case you can lock it with the transfer case shifter.
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Mudding
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The answer depends on what year your truck is. If it is a 1999 through mid-2001, I recall, or if it is a 2004, then yes, you can lock the center differential and drive your truck without the front driveshaft in place. Just do a search for "CDL nipple." Unless you have a 2004, in which case you can lock it with the transfer case shifter.
https://landroverforums.com/forum/di...ures%5D-80783/
Thanks for the detailed reply!
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Haha I thought about that afterward and felt it was too forward. What I meant was "you should search CDL and learn what you can about it."
Any Discovery owner that has no clue what CDL is should thoroughly inform himself. There is way too much to explain and it may be something that you will have an interest in. But it takes diagrams, footnotes, and days of back and forth correspondence found in threads for one to gain an understanding of what it is and what it does. Instead of "look for threaded attachment spigot at front output of transfer case," look the thing up in RAVE workshop manual and learn what it's function and value is. All you have to do is type "land rover CDL." It's not that hard and you get the benefit of knowledge rather than a string of bullet points.
Any Discovery owner that has no clue what CDL is should thoroughly inform himself. There is way too much to explain and it may be something that you will have an interest in. But it takes diagrams, footnotes, and days of back and forth correspondence found in threads for one to gain an understanding of what it is and what it does. Instead of "look for threaded attachment spigot at front output of transfer case," look the thing up in RAVE workshop manual and learn what it's function and value is. All you have to do is type "land rover CDL." It's not that hard and you get the benefit of knowledge rather than a string of bullet points.
Thanks for that. I was able to see the thread below. Unfortunately I was hoping this was a built in ready to go feature on my 2000 Disco 2. Always learning about this truck.
https://landroverforums.com/forum/di...ures%5D-80783/
Thanks for the detailed reply!
https://landroverforums.com/forum/di...ures%5D-80783/
Thanks for the detailed reply!
Most 99-02's will have the CDL Nipple. 02 models are a 50/50 chance as it depends on the build date. 03 never had the CDL Nipple.
Grab yourself a telescopic mirror and place it above the front of your transfer case. If you see a threaded Nipple on a 3 bolt plate then you have it. If you see nothing but a flat blank spot then you don't.
If you have it you can grab an 03/04 SLABS Unit, and an 04 CDL linkage and call it a day.
You will have to either disable the 4wd interlock switch on the 99-02 transfer case or disable the one on the 04 linkage. Your choice on which one to disable. I prefer the 04 interlock as it's MUCH easier to get to in an event it fails out on the trail.