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I´m buying one for my son. Beware, as there is a similar model called "sit and stand" with Hummer instead of Land Rover,

Today I have found at a home decoration store a fake Shell motor oil can, about 8" tall, perfect for the project.

Just what the title says

Have found some cool wall paper and a quad bike tyre that has the perfect size 20x10 with 9" rim.

Working as a white van man is great when you have to pick up materials for your projects (sssshhhh, don´t tell the boss ). 122x244cm and 60x120 16mm MDF cutted to the correct shape. Photoshop recreation of how it should be milled/painted.

Frame tacked, carboard body mock up. (sorry for the inverted images)

Mine should look like this when finished (if everything goes as expected).

Moderators feel free to move/remove this post if this is not the correct place for it. My son Breixo will be 1 year old the next month, and my present for him is going to be a Land Rover bed, as the cradle he is using right now will be too small for him soon. I will be using three 190x90 cm matresses for creating a mix of bunk/trundle bed. First I searched for a Land Rover with length to width ratio similar to the matress: 86" series I Then I calculated the scale to use: 3/5th And last, the theme: overland/jungle/safari Tomorrow I will go to pick up the 16mm MDF for the project. This weekend I expect to leave the 30x30x1.5 mm box section farame welded. Some inspirational pictures.

February 2014, Alto da Forca in O'Courel, 3 metres of snow!

Also inadecuate road rulings. In Spain snow tyres with studs are illegal.

Yep, 100% lock, but will allow something between half to 1/3 of wheel spin before locking. According to pirate, 18 degree of wheelspin is enough and will make it work perfectly on road even in front axle.

Disco 2 in the ditch and police Freelander, snowing yesterday in Ourense.

Here you see how Santana parabolics with no load are just touching chassis hangers. There are a pair of 4" blocks between axle and bumpstops in this picture.

A slider bolted to the chassis hanger will avoid it from beeing catched. Once half of the compression travel is achieved, the leaf will touch the slider and start working as in a leaf suspension, making the air supension stiffer and softening the "landing" on the bumpstops.

It's cheap and can be reversed.

Have discovered this on pirate4x4. It's something like an LSD version of the Lincoln Locker. Has someone here experienced it?

I will use airbags from p38 and leave the leaf springs in one piece, simply removing shackles. That way, in case of air suspension failure, it will just take a few minutes to go again on leafs. Airbags in front of axle will also give softer ride plus more travel. Transit leafs with orbit eye bushing could handle all that axle twist.

...and use high panhard bar: no body roll with tons of travel. Yes, axle panhard mount will protrude into the rear tub in full compression. just make a hole in floor!

Divorcing is the way! No adaptors needed, just a custom cheap mini propshaft. Imagine that the transfer on the left is the BW 4462 from a P38, and the one in the right an LT230. Fit the PTO and "feed" it with the front axle propshaft from the 4462 and you will have the LT exactly in the middle of front and rear axles.

88 is too short for typicall Us rock crawling doubler setup. Everything absolutely standard, except the LT230 divorce. Standard components, differently located. Divorced LT230 could be placed anywere you need, so no lengthwise problems, silly propshaft angles and so on. Air suspension with high panhard should minimize body roll. Wider axles maintain heigth to width ratio as standard.

Errrr...it was going to be the front prop the one giving the power... I will explain why I´m thinking about this idea, I want a to fit a BMW/OPEL/Range Rover six pot turbodiesel to my 88". SOA + lift (about 8" total) and long travel shocks are also in the agenda. First idea was a simple setup: R380 with LT230, but a P38 R380 will not fit the LT230. As Dave explained in another thread/forum, a K/L suffix Disco II box with rangie bellhousing and shaft will work, but that means that I will have to buy two boxes, and I´m working with a very limited budget. And here my (vapour) solution, giving lot of advantages: absolutelly standard P38 R380+BW, no rear driveshaft and the front one...driving a divorced LT230, beeing fed by the PTO and clocked for beeing vertical. I already have a 4x2 Santana LT230, so just one box to buy. BW used as a doubler. This setup will have driveshafts offset to the left. 110 rear Salisbury fitted upside down will have left side diff and "high pinion". Jeep Grand Cherokee ZJ front Dana 30 is left diff, high pinion, similar track to LR coiler axle and, that from 4.0 autobox, is 3.55 ratio. Not particulary strong, but a guy at the local club has managed to run 37" tyres with no breakages. Also "J" type steering linkage will suit the TRW (ex Nissan Cabstar) steering box. This setup should end give front and rear propshafts a horizontal position and equal length. That should made unnecesary the neef of (not cheap) high angle shafts. Left diff means right hand engine offset, anothe advantage for LHD cars, giving more room for the drivers foot.

Ok, thanks.

Hi all, What´s the upper and lower limit of castor angle for not having "death wobble" or super heavy steering? Are Land Rover axles 3 degrees? Thinking about an axle/suspension upgrade...

Hi all, Let´s imagine that we want to adapt a Range Rover P38 Borg Warner transer case to a single driven axle aplication. How could we lock the viscous unit? Will it "fail" (got fixed in this case) by simply leting it do it´s work? Disasemble and weld maybe? Thanks.

I have found on ebay some saddles with the right size for 1 1/2" (nominal) pipe, beeing this the minimum pipe size according to ALRC ruling.