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Winches Again
Bulli:
to run an occasional use electric winch you dont need to do any of that...i didnt and still recovered 6 vehicles with a gew 9000lb winch.
Theres a lot of crap talked that you NEED to do this and that straight away...bull.
My alternator is the original and works fine and dont even get me started on split charge, for winching they are not the best option anyway.
Budgie:
I'm with Bully on that one.
I ran my 90 with a Superwinch X9 on the front for years with it connected to the one & only battery in the vehicle, no split charge, no twin battery setup, and the standard alternator.
It wasn't used for winch challenges, just for getting me or someone else out of the mud occasionally. :wink:
Manicminer:
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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:
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This was on a gravel road with a 90 degree uphill bend with a slight water runoff causing the Defender to crossaxle slightly, ie the ground pressure was less on the front wheel. He had his diff locked. The load was perfectly positioned on the trailer. The driver has 40+ years experience of LR products and lives on a farm and knew what he was doing.
Mudlark:
One day Land-Rover owners are going to take off those rose coloured glasses they always wear and acknowledge the fact that Land-Rovers are not necessarly the best vehicle to get the job done.
I know they're almost half way there by the amount of modding that they do, fitting portals, difflocks, big american motors, dislocators In fact on some the only thing to come out of Solihul is the bodywork. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Bulli:
i see so wanting to improve is something bad?
I dont see the problem myself and personally feel its each to their own. If we all thought the same way progress wouldnt happen and we would all still have horses.... now they dont get stuck.
Anyway , money where your mouth is...put up or shut up.... :wink:
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