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muddyjames:
Right then. a dream of mine (which will probably still end up being a dream) is to make a 6x4 / 6x6 disco.

Roughly how easy / hard would it be to do and cost. I know a 6x6 chasis is about 2k  :shock: .

I would like to chop an old disco off at just where the roof steps up so in theory I would have 4 side ways facing seats.

Also idealy what I would like is it to run as 6x4 and then the rear axle run off the pto so when I get stuck move a lever and make it a 6x6 then. again is this viable?

As I said above it is a dream but I would like to see how easy it would be to become reality. I just tried photo shopping a 6x6 disco and cant get my head around it all. I think I would need a 3door disco /7 seat to chop up. A 9 seater 6x6 disco would be ace :D

Your ideas and thoughts please and if anyone fancies photo shopping I can provide a pic of my disco side on to have a play with!!!

solihull-mick:
Can you weld? can you fabricate? making the chassis would be easy, making the rear most axle drive is the hard bit, you cannot use the pto take off as it runs at a different speed to the rear output of the diff, my advise would be leave it as a dream :shock:

thermidorthelobster:
There are two general ways to get 6 wheel drive:

1) A pass-through diff in the middle.  This is the method Foley generally use and is nice and simple.  Not sure where you get the diffs though.

2) Second transfer box driven off the PTO, to drive the rear axle.  You can then engage/disengage at will, but you'll get wind-up if you run in 6x6 all the time as there's no differential between the front 4 and rear 2 wheels.  Of course, you have to find somewhere to stick another transfer box.  This is the transmission my 101 had, based on an LT95.

You could of course stick with 6x4;  the majority of 6 wheeled Land Rovers (the fire trucks etc) tend to be 6x4.  Personally I find 6x4 pretty lousy, as if the driving axle of the rear pair comes off the ground, which it will tend to do quite frequently, then you don't have any drive at all, and even if you engage diff lock you only have drive at the front.

muddyjames:
cant weld but this could be a time to learn, get training and over looking by a competant welder as my life would depend on it, and I know a man who can weld and who has made 6x4 101's.

Maybe run the disco as a ful time 6x6 then? I have a mate with a 6x6 rangie (has a special name and only 2 left in the world)

muddyjames:

--- Quote from: "thermidorthelobster" ---
You could of course stick with 6x4;  the majority of 6 wheeled Land Rovers (the fire trucks etc) tend to be 6x4.  Personally I find 6x4 pretty lousy, as if the driving axle of the rear pair comes off the ground, which it will tend to do quite frequently, then you don't have any drive at all, and even if you engage diff lock you only have drive at the front.
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This is why I would like 6x4 and then 6x6 sometimes but I would like to keep fuel effiency roughly the same as now.

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