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Fitting QT Diff Guards to a TD5

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Ben:
Morning!

I've just spent the last hour under the 90 in the rain removing the diff pan guard, the steering guard ( no recovery point, and can't fit JATE rings with it) and the necessary bolts to fit QT diff guards front and rear, and the brackets don't fit properly.

Has anyone else fitting the QT guards to a TD5 - the front diff has different mouldings on to a 300Tdi by the looks of things so the bracket doesn't sit flush, and so doesn't reach the guard.
The rear on fouls the brake lines. On the 300Tdi, the brake pipe splitter thingy was bolted to the diff, and could be moved to allow the guard to fit, but on my 90 it's welded to the axle, and consequently looks a pain to move.

Any ideas? I'll give QT a bell in the morning, but it looks like I've either got the wrong brackets, or I'm doing something wrong :shock:

Cheers

Ben

Guardian.:
did you buy it as a td5 guard or did you just buy a defender diff guard.

Ben:
I bought both as TD5 guards... I take it they have different brackets?

Ben

smo:
Diff guards on the TD5 are a pain, but not impossible to fit - it took 4 hours to get the front one on mine with the help of a hammer and angle grider to reshape the bracket.

The secret is to do everything up as loose as possible and bend it all into place then start cranking them up bit by bit and it pulls its self into shape.

Ben:
I wondered if the brackets needed to be slightly different shape. I've marked the back one where it needs to be cut out, but I don't want to reduce the strength of the bracket.

I fitted the units to my previous 300TDi (front and rear), and they went on with a good bit of bending, but no cutting.

I'll see what QT say tomorrow - you'd have thought they'd have a TD5 specific bracket for the guards. After all, they're selling them as TD5 ones (unless I got thewrong ones, of course :D )

Cheers

Ben

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