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Speed margins so small are just an excuse for taking our money. If you have a clearly visible police car all drivers will slow down when seeing it. If you hide it, speeding drivers will be a danger in the road because they will not be stoped and will recive the fine by post.

Liked it a lot! Can´t wait to see the Landy restoration.

Pictures and plate number will help.

I'm not reasonably technical, I even don't know what a VPN is, so will wait until someone shares it on youtube

I´m still waiting for engineer´s response. No more development yet.

Is it available on the web for overseas?

www.electronicaembajadores.com search in products: fusibles automáticos. Don´t know if they will ship aboard. Price: 5 Eur + VAT Life expectancy: 500 cycles.

Will give them a try then.

I must say that leafs used were seconhand and 20 years old.

Nope. We had that setup in our previous 88 and side slope stability and road behaviour were greatly improved. Was OK for me, but maybe others find it too stiff. Someday, with wider axles fitted, will go SOA, but not now.

Hi all, I´m now working in a new wire loom that I´m going to build for my 88". Instead of using normal fuses, that simply blow and need to be replaced, I have been thinking about "automatic fuses". Many years ago, when I first heard about them, price was high (more than 50 Eur. each) and only used in motorsport. Today I can buy them for just 5 Eur each. Avilable from 2 to 16A. Up to 36VDC. Any experience with them in the forum?

Not cheap!

I have been measuring everything again today. If I weld it as it´s in pictures and maintain SUA with standard lenght shackles, I will end with a 4" lift, assuming that the leaf itself is not giving any lift. Four pack parabolics from 109" at the rear of an 88" + 1 Ton shackles gave us 3" lift over sagged non parabolics in our previous 88". Since the rear is usually 2" higher than front, 3" rear + 4" front will be a balanced setup and more than adecuate for me.

Trimming/raising the lower parts of chassis was something I thought, but I´m not allowed to cut the chassis. Weldind extensions without cutting the original chassis seems OK to authorities. My front parabolics (Factory fitted) are only two leafs.

Don´t know if UK ruling is made according to EU regulations, and therefore, same as in Spain. In Spain roof lights are illegal, unless catalogued as "work lamps", with the switch OUTSIDE the car and working only with ignition off. Land Rover in UK switched that way the roof lights mounted to "Tomb Raider" limited edition units shipped to Spain. Also ilegal because they are not "in the front of the car". That´s the reason for beeing OK on lorries and forward controls. I fitted some to our previous 88". Worked great, but I had "just" four. Six will be the mínimum for me. Two pointing down and to the sides, two down to front and two other straight front. In my current 88" (with Series V body, same as a 90) I´m planning to use a led bar INSIDE cab on top of the windscreen (with something like a box preventing the glare expanding in the cab). This will be quite difficult to be detected by trafic patrols if switched off. Will be used only off road. The paint (dark blue) is already matt in my vehicle, so glare in bonett should not be a problema.

You use three leafs, but yours is a 109" with a big 3.4 engine. Mine is 88" with small 2.25 diesel. Leafs are from the rear axle of a 109 Six. Are rated to slightly more tan 2000kg. 1000kg rate with two leafs should be OK for the front of the 88. Anyway, I could allways refit one of the taken away leafs. Rear trailing arms from a coiler can be used for fabricating some anti-wrap bars (something similar to what Soren made). According to my calculations, 12" shocks wouldn´t need new shock mounts when used with SOA and 4" bumpstop spacers. ProComp are the only ones that fit my budget.

Pictures are just a mock up. Front overhang is extended to the exact measure to leave the wheelbase as stock. Also note that the rear leaf used at front is with no weight on it and uses 1 Ton extended shackles. In real life it will have probably just two leafs, sitting nearly flat, and standard length shackles. The engineering company has said me not to weld anything to my chassis yet, as they are still consulting with a mechanical lab to see if this "major chassis moddification" can be made road legal, so I will wait for their reply before making anything that could not be reversed to stock. I have asked them to take in account this setup in two forms: with and whithout SOA. My 88 left the Linares factory with a 5 speed LT85. That means that my rear prop is already a doublé cardon type. Pointing diff´s nose directly to box output will solve any transmissions problema associated with SOA lift.

Shackles at front, with rear leaf mounts welded under chassis (taken from the rear of a 109). I have considered triming the bumper/crossmember, but if I live it as is I will have a nice winch base and any obstacle will be hitted first by bumper and not by shackles.

Mouse´s right button over the image. Choose "Properties". Select and copy image´s URL. On Fridge´s post, click on the "add image" icon and place the URL you copies earlier in the dialog window, accept...and job done!

Hi all, This is a spin off from my 88" rebuild. After Bill´s coments on how some front shackles will improve vehicle´s traction on goat like terrain, and also after seeing Koos´ (Toyroverlander) suspensión setup (longer front overhang and longer front leafs) I have decided to try something in my vehicle, since front dumb irons are in very poor state and will need welding anyway. Using a rear quarter chassis, I will enlarge the front overgang so I could fit some rear leafs at front. SOA and bigger tyres will make the loss in aproach angle less evident. Quite probable I will need some degree shims for having the correct castor angle. This is the mock-up I have made with the Six cylinder spare chassis we have. I have forwarded the pictures to an engineering company so they can tell me if this could be made road legal in Spain. Any ideas or advice on this setup?

Bearings were new when the ARB was fitted, but were reused after CW failure because they looked OK

ARB wad trued in lathe before refiting. Will ask about bearings, as I don't know if he replaced them after the CW failure.

Aparently the diff was correctly set up. ARB was damaged and succesfully repaired after the CW failure (you know what some little metal bits can do inside a diffs case). V8 is smoother on torque than a four pot. Is that smoothness lack what is breaking things?

I´m working under the rain because there is no space in the garage for the Santana

A friend with a 300 Disco fitted some 285/75R16 mud tyres. He broke shafts. Fitted Ascroft. Broke diff´s pin. Fitted ARB. Broke crownwheel. Pegged it. And now...pinion has gone! Has anyone suffered CW&P failure after after pegging? Should we fit HD CW&P or go for a rear Salisbury? The Tdi is slightly tweaked and used for hardcore greenlaning, but never comparable to V8 + challenge events.