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Winches Again
Range Rover Blues:
--- Quote from: "Manicminer" ---If it wasn't for jap motors, then Land Rover would still be building leaf sprung SIII :wink:
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If it wasn't for the COIL SPRUNG Range Rover there wouldn't be a market for family 4x4 at all
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I have seen a Defender TD5 pulling a 14' Ivor Williams trailer with 3.5 tonnes on the back of it stuck on a gravel road because it had the front wheel wanting to lift up into the air. Unhiched the trailer off the back of the Defender and hooked the Isuzu to it and it pulled the trailer in 2WD, that's why we have a rear limited slip diff. I still had 4WD if I wanted it.
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Well you can't do anything about driver error. If the trailer noseweight was high enough to lift the front wheels of a Defender then it's very, very illegal.
If the Defender driver hasn't got the nouse to engage diff lock then tell him to join the "slap with a wet fish queue" over there.
Axle difflocks are fitted by manufacturers who know they have an articulation problem :wink:
Bulli:
the g wagon has them and scores badly on the rti ramp.... to say the least. Me 9ft 4inch mates g just over 3 ft..... says a lot really.
G-mod:
--- Quote from: "Bulli" ---the g wagon has them and scores badly on the rti ramp.... to say the least. Me 9ft 4inch mates g just over 3 ft..... says a lot really.
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True, very true: doesn't seem to hinder it offroad though :lol:
It just likes to wave at you! it went up Stanagde virtually on three wheels all the time, no bother
anyway back to winches.......................Hydraulic vs electric :roll:
Bulli:
electric dear boy. cheaper and way quicker.....unless you spend a zillion quid
Mudlark:
--- Quote from: "Bulli" ---electric dear boy. cheaper and way quicker.....unless you spend a zillion quid
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Take the whole system into account - extra battery, charge splitter, bigger alternator. (won't add on the possibility of burnt out motors :wink: )
Pit that against Hydraulic, is electric still cheaper?
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