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Little-Green-Machine:
whayhey sounds good, looking forward to seeing the project going again :thumbup:

discorich:
Glad to hear that it is still going on mate, i never thought that lack of ground clearance issues and mog axles would ever have been used in the same sentence.

I have always wanted to try this but not in current funds bracket, one of the guys in our club has had thoughts of using 303 axles, they seem to be lighter but dont know much more about the pros and cons of any of the portals.

Look forward to seeing more pics as you get stuff done.

boss:
boss' rough guied to portals(from memory so dont quote me)


mog 404s

pros-
super strong
excelant build quality
evereything is interchaingable, ie axle casings are the same, the steering knuckles can be swapped from front to back, portal boxes are exactly the same
simple
cheap, between £200-1000 for an old set or £1500-3000 for a brand spanking new set

cons-
heavy, wet weight is between 480-550 kgs
width
diff offset hasto be chandes on the front axle
pinion conversions needed
disk brake conversion needed





Volvo C303

pros-
light, wet weight is something like 280-320kgs
narrower than mogs
landrover props bolt straight on(as there a Dana axle)


cons-
cost, cheapest set ive seen is £2000 and the most expencive was 8k
parts are becoming harder to get hold of everey day
no disk brakes
vaccume opperated difflock, maby just me but i find that a really over engineered way to operate a difflock!


there is another breed of portal made by simca, they are found on french troop transporters.......less said about them the better really ive seen a few builds with them and they look like a total nightmare!.......and there french!
however, if your willing to [throw it] about with them then you can get a set for next to nothing.


all in all, if you want to save money buy mogs, if you want to save weight buy volvos. but the mogs are alot stronger but does that justify the extra weight?




and i dont think i said a lack of diff clearance on the mog axles, i just think that the germans got a little lazy when it came to refining the axle casings when they realised they had cracked the portal idea :lol:
also trying to shed some weight off of them would like the truck to stay under 2000kgs which is a bit of an ask but i think its achiveable!

discorich:
that is a great bit of info about the portals. If and when i get portals it will prob be mog axels due to price. I think i actually know of someone that has a few mogs in there garden so might have to make freinds with them.
I am well gutted, a few years back someone offered me a set of maxi drive porteled and lockered axles for a good price, but not knowing at that time what they were offering me i declined, what a fool, grrrr.
Ahh well cheers for the advice boss.

boss:
some one told me that a landrover maxi drive portal axle set cost 10k :shocked:

portaltek have made/are making a bolt on portal box for landrovers but there 3k for EACH rear box and 4k for EACH front box

there are also 2 other companys i know of that are playing around with the idea but it wont cost to much money but when i asked them about it they diddnt want to let on too much and they also diddnt want me to say who :( probily get it right if you made an educated guess lol

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