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Re: Mikes kja hybrid challenge truck updated 27/08/2015

Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2015 9:48 pm
by mike harris
Yeh there cool, to valuable for off-roading.

I'm going to do away with my lockers and fit spools front and rear I've decided.

Aim for this truck is relierbilaty, cutting out weak links is what I'm trying to do

Re: Mikes kja hybrid challenge truck updated 27/08/2015

Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2015 10:01 pm
by robbie1985
its crazy to think the yanks made something like 700,000 of them. did mr rover have one at his beach house after the war and used it as the base for the series 1 landy?
it makes sense to if your only gonna use it offroad. how do the spools work? i've heard about them but never come across them

Re: Mikes kja hybrid challenge truck updated 27/08/2015

Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2015 1:06 pm
by Anton
Spools lock the left driveshaft to the right one permanantly, so you don't have a "differential" anymore. Left and right have to turn equally, no matter what.

Utterly terrible for road use, probably even illegal, but utterly superb for drift cars and offroad only vehicles.

Re: Mikes kja hybrid challenge truck updated 27/08/2015

Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2015 8:53 am
by mike harris
I want to find a complete spool not a mini spool.

Don't want standard carier I want to upgrade the whole lot.

Want to find one you literally bolt the crown wheel too

Mike

Re: Mikes kja hybrid challenge truck updated 27/08/2015

Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2015 12:40 pm
by ektoz
i was looking also for that kind of spool, could not find one
http://offroadwarehouse.com/i-10167973- ... inder.html
thats what the rock bouncers use

Re: Mikes kja hybrid challenge truck updated 27/08/2015

Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2015 4:24 pm
by ScottieJ
I've never seen one made for a suzuki diff.

Re: Mikes kja hybrid challenge truck updated 27/08/2015

Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2015 9:10 pm
by mike harris
I might get two made

Re: Mikes kja hybrid challenge truck updated 27/08/2015

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2015 7:45 pm
by Anton
mike harris wrote:I might get two made
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You want someone to make you one of these?

I should imagine it wouldn't be difficult if you had the skills and tools - just take a pair of side gears, grind them down and weld them onto a shaft of the right size, then some kind of plate to attach it to the ring gear (vice-versa really, but you know what I mean).

I'm sure Richard could do it, it's just - does the man have the time?

And is all of that going to be worthwhile vs a mini spool?

Re: Mikes kja hybrid challenge truck updated 27/08/2015

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2015 8:39 pm
by mike harris
Anything welded wouldn't be strong enough

Would need to be machined

Il see what's what il low my lockers up then worry about it

Re: Mikes kja hybrid challenge truck updated 27/08/2015

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2015 8:40 pm
by mike harris
Bits bolted on

Engines in
Gearbox in
Tbox in
Shocks on
Dash bar and pedals in