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  1. 8 hours ago, Stellaghost said:

    ....Brush dimensions barring length are 19mm x 8.7mm

    I can bang it in the post if you think you can use it

    Regards Stephen 

    Thank Stephen that would be a massive help, I've just remeasure and the brushes are not far off your dims I should be able to make them work even if they need a bit of shimming. I'll drop you a p'm, you'll have to let me know what I owe you.

    After seeing what you repaired I'm suddenly less worried about  the end cap. 😄

    On the plus side the gearbox end doesn't seem to bad, just need a clean and fresh grease.

    Has any one tried to refurb the warn solenoids, or is it just not worth the effort?

     

    Chris

  2. In my wisdom / youth I brought a second hand "Working" Warn XD9000i.

    After 15 years I thought it's probably time to get it fitted.

    Anyway long story short I'm a gullable fool, the motor resembles the Titanic with a disentigrated brush fused to the contacts, knackered bearings and a holey end cap!

    I think it's salvageable and I really don't want to buy a new motor, but as a minimum I'll need to replace the front and rear bearings which seem to be 6203 and 6202. But the brush I'm stumped. Warn seem to want to sell you the entire brush and bearing support housing for the price of a motor. 

    I've been looking around for something that might work as a substitute but not having much luck. The brushes seem to measure 20mm wide x 10mm deep x 20mm tall.  I've found a few dc motors (starter, marine, dynamo brushes that come with similar dimensions.) But was hoping that some one might know of another winch brushes that could be retrofitted.

    The warn design seems pretty crummy, in the early versions it appears to have separate brushes that are individually maintainable, but on this the brushes are combined with a bearing support, and if you have an issue the are soldered directly to a copper bar.

    Any ideas / suggestions welcome. As long as they don't involve confessing to the wife I brought a dud!

  3. From what i've read, it seems ABS filament seems to have okay uv resistance due to some witch craft. and the joy of printing is you can just print a batch and repalce them every few years. 

    I havent tried printing ABS yet, but i plan to in the coming months. if you can wait i an give it a crack, Just need some fag packetry dimensions.

     

  4. Only thing i'll add to the Lexus bunfight, they are getting very spendy these days as the drifters love slapping turbos on them.  Rear sump is going to cost you serious wonga. There are people doing the flange to make your own. but i'm sure a man of your caliber could sort his own.

     

  5. 21 minutes ago, Stellaghost said:

    To be fair it wasn't about the speed, he really liked how compact the car is and how stable it felt, I get his point it did feel good

    Regards Stephen

    If he wants to experience the complete opposite, I think mine fits the glove.

    Just spent the last half hour looking up if the wife's sante fe has the towing capacity.  Can't remember the last time I took the Lwt properly off road.

  6. 3 hours ago, Stellaghost said:

    I would say it depends on what portals you plan on using my mogs weigh 250kg without wheels so around 100kg heavier than standard rover axle, sumb axles will be heavier, Volvos being the lightest @FridgeFreezer is your man for them. @Timc20xeripped a section out of his chassis so I'm playing safe regards Stephen

    This isn't solely aimed at Stephen, more the collective and their thoughts.

    I thought the issue was more around the added leverage genrated by the drop boxes. Increasing wrap/twist. Wouldn't unsprung weight only become an issue during extremes of articulation or if you were going to pretend you were in the Dakar. Or am I missing something.

    I figured you could help with the wrap issue by raising the top mount point of the a frame ball joint. Or by replicating a radius arm setup (like the front) to relieve the forces on the a- frame joint. But then you would need a watts setup like a d2.

    Then again I don't remember seeing the maxidrive bolt on boxes having issues. However I don't think they had as much drop as the mog axles.

    Preparing to be shot down...

     

  7. Outstanding.

    Apologies if you have already mentioned it, are you doing any reinforcement work to the a-frame mountings or are they already made of oil rig?

    I'm guessing the mog axles put most of their leverage into the A frame? or do the chassis mounts also take a hammering hence the 10mm?   

     

    Chris

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  8. On 8/5/2021 at 11:01 PM, FridgeFreezer said:

    've not yet seen a Speeduino ECU that doesn't look like a Maplins project, not sure I'd want to fit it to a Land Rover and jiggle it round for 1000's of miles on & off road. Also it's suffering a bit of feature-creep and is already more expensive/complex than it needs to be.

    I'll let you know, ill be using it to replace the Mems on the t16.  As for expense. i think speeduino has a long way to go before it gets to the price of MS. the kit for the board was only about £80.  Admittedly it was some time ago.

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