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Vehicle & Technical => Range Rover => Topic started by: military mad 110 on October 24, 2010, 00:35:58
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someone has told me that removing my front prop on my 2.5 TD p38 will make it more fuel efficient? is this true or false?
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complete horse doo doo, it will however shorten the life of your viscous unit in the t-case considerably
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as i thought cheers mate
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... and make the handling verging on dangerous!
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It's probably based on the belief that riunning freewheeling hubs on a seires helps fuel economy. if you remove the spinning buts in the front axle then you will have less weight to get spinning, thus making it accelerate quicker and use less fuel.
You will harldy notcie any saving and as said it won't compensate you for the cost of getting towed out of a ditch, if you don't smash the rear diff or transfer box first.
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It is however fun... had to do it on one of my old motors when the front uj gave up. Easiest way to improve fuel economy on a 2.5 dt is to get it chipped and fit a decent intercooler.