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boss:
no one has a problem with you it is just the fact that you can not own up to your mistakes and you then dig the proverbial hole, and it gets worse and worse and worse! to which i assume you can testify too.
anyways. i am looking at putting something like 37s on there(minimum o 36) doing this the wheels on full lock will hit the wings where the battery and "tool kit" are stored so they will have to go. i may also have problems with the foot wells but that's not such a big problem. main problem at the moment is that the 9" grinder i have is [!Expletive Deleted!] and it has a disk stuck in it.....tried everything and cant get it out......may hijack all the guts from it and bin the rest!
if i get my arse in gear and get some 4" disks by the end of the week the front "problem area" will be gone and i can stop umming and areing.
my problem now is to decide on what to do about axles.... portals are very nice but so damn expensive, the Salisbury Axel are few and far between and i just cant find definitive info about them, i could just buy McNamara units or maxidrive and use that stuff but that is alot too! then there is the dreaded yota axle......want to avoid these at all costs but needs must and all that.
any thoughts or input would be greatly appreciated, no matter who you are........just don't be talking about stuff you know nothing of. want to try and clear the air here!
also steve, tractor tyres and boggers are very similar....if they are good enough for farmers they are good enough for me!
clbarclay:
--- Quote from: boss on July 09, 2008, 21:02:43 --- then there is the dreaded yota axle......want to avoid these at all costs but needs must and all that.
--- End quote ---
Any particular reason or just because they are jap?
boss:
because i know nothing about them and i would preferably like to stay with landrover stuff
Disco_Stu:
Hi Boss. I realise you've just said you'd like to stick to landrover stuff but having read some of the comments in the recent LRO about the Mog axles from straigh forward being similar in price to fully upgraded LR units (they come standard with heavy duty components and lockers), I wondered if they might not be worth considering.
You seem to have big plans mate. 37's will play merry hell with your drivetrain and if you plan to compete, reliability is a must. I know you lurk a bit on LR 4x4, take another look at some of those threads by the flying spanners lads and their peers like pikey etc, quite alot aspire to nissan/mog/etc axles.
Without wishing to offend, you dont seem to be shy with your dosh so who knows what big F**K OFF axles and rubber will do to your plans, wont need to chop the front if you're an extra foot off the ground :)
Stu.
Then again, the gigglepin landys are running LR axles with ashcroft internals and jumping around like Bo an Luke Duke so its probably the vodka doing the thinking for me again.
boss:
Stu i do lurk on Lr4x4 from time to time, and have spoken to jez about portals a few times....there are major factors to consider when doing a conversion like that though....for a start; you all know what I'm like, i would get the Lr axles off and start [!Expletive Deleted!] around with 1links or 3 links or something else that will set me back another 4 months! also if i were to put portals on i would be in the open class on challenge events.....not something i want to do at the moment, want to work my way up ;) and as you have said cost, at the moment i don't have a mortgage to pay, i don't drink and don't smoke my bmx is complete(and has a rather heavy layer of dust on it) don't have any kids, so i don't really have anywhere else for my income to go. i don't just put all my money into it all i save for a while and buy LOTS of stuff in 1 go. it is not time for another big spend yet....have to save some more and if i get this new job it will be alot easeyer(looking good on that by the way :dance:).
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