Tonk Posted January 3, 2007 Share Posted January 3, 2007 as the evolution of my truck continues i'm considering selling my gearbox along with the disced handbrake on the back. its basically a self built lt77 mated onto a series transfer box which will bolt straight onto the standard series gearbox mounts with no mods to the chassis apart from the bellhousing crossmember would have to be scalloped. obviously anyone putting it in would have to remake propshafts to suit. tia Mark. (who hasn't got a clue) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon White Posted January 3, 2007 Share Posted January 3, 2007 Geabox x-member?? Why??? I didnt have to? Only for propshaft clearance I assume? Jon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonk Posted January 3, 2007 Author Share Posted January 3, 2007 no need to touch gearbox crossmember, i said the bellhousing one would have to be scalloped for prop to run it...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon White Posted January 3, 2007 Share Posted January 3, 2007 D'oh! I must learn to pay more attention........... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jericho Posted January 3, 2007 Share Posted January 3, 2007 Whats it worth? Well a chap at Sodbury offered me an lt77 with an ashcroft series transfer case conversion kit for ''I dunno,fifty quid,make me an offer,I just wanna get rid of it'' so yours must be worth almost as much!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon White Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 I sold an ashcroft kit 2 years ago for £150, and that was just the kit! (which frankly was pretty horrible!) Could have sold it at least 3 times over aswell...... As this is a complete, proven unit, thats more or less a nuts and bolts swap I should have thought it should have been worth alot more........how much more i dont know......... Jon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FridgeFreezer Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 One way to tell is to stick it on eBlag with a reserve price you'd be happy with (or a really silly high one) on a 10-day auction and see who bites / how many e-mails you get. Make sure you describe it well / clearly. You can always reserve the right to pull it at the last minute if you're not overjoyed at the price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonk Posted January 4, 2007 Author Share Posted January 4, 2007 One way to tell is to stick it on eBlag with a reserve price you'd be happy with (or a really silly high one) on a 10-day auction and see who bites / how many e-mails you get. Make sure you describe it well / clearly. You can always reserve the right to pull it at the last minute if you're not overjoyed at the price. i reckon thats wot i might end up doing O/T will a lt77 defender bellhousing fit onto a R380? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon White Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 No I dont think so..... Jon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
western Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 O/Twill a lt77 defender bellhousing fit onto a R380? Yes it will, thats how my R380 is fitted to my 200Tdi, bell housing is 11cm overall length from front to rear mating faces 200Tdi/R380 use FRC9865 [same as LT77, 'stumpy' 11cm overall length bellhousing] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonk Posted January 4, 2007 Author Share Posted January 4, 2007 Yes it will, thats how my R380 is fitted to my 200Tdi, bell housing is 11cm overall length from front to rear mating faces200Tdi/R380 use FRC9865 [same as LT77, 'stumpy' 11cm overall length bellhousing] so shorter than a standard 4 pot bellhousing? IIRC standard bellhousing is about 180mm long? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon White Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 Ah is that the stumpy one made from Unobtanium??? IIRC isnt an R380 box longer than an LT77 or something hence the need for the shorter bellhousing? Jon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonk Posted January 4, 2007 Author Share Posted January 4, 2007 i thought the lt77 and r380 was the same casting (exterior wise), dont know about the ali output rear casting though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
western Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 Ah is that the stumpy one made from Unobtanium???Jon Yep ISTR the R380 is about 25mm longer than the LT77. but the LT77 bell housing allows the R380 to fit a 200Tdi engine & most likely a 300Tdi provided it sits on the original mountings of a earlier 4 cylinder engined vehicle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonk Posted January 4, 2007 Author Share Posted January 4, 2007 hmmm interesting. so, does anyone wanna offer me sensible (ish) money for me gearbox or is it going on eblag? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gremlin Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 And what about the input shaft?? if its an r380 out any disco or 300 defender the input shaft is longer............................. I know this as a fact as we did the conversion and we had to shorten the main shaft to suit, it was a disco box, hence fitting the defender gear linkage was also a royal pita to get right!! Grem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FridgeFreezer Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 The longer bellhousings (EG Disco/RR V8) are different to take up the extra inch, but it seems with the short ones they couldn't / didn't want to make them any shorter. Worth a double check with the tape measure though as you don't wanna be swapping input shafts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Hancock Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 On one of the forums or possibly the web site of the chap in Australia that does the 4 wheel steer defender and i cant remember which it was, there was the tale of a 90 that had been reboxed from LT77 to R380 using the LT77 bellhousing, it was never right requiring redrilled(bodge) & not tubed mounting holes in the chassis. It trashed the gearbox & clutch which never operated correctly and investigation revealed that the spigot bearing on the input shaft did not enter the bush in the crankshaft, so the drive plate was wobbling well from the unsupported input shaft when the clutch was not driving as the R380 needed a shorter bellhousing, using the correct R380 bellhousing and all the mounting holes lined up correctly and the bearing entered the crank bush! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwncidur Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 give me a ball park figure? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Hancock Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 Ill start the bidding at £55.00. Any more bids? Going once to Mr Hancock Going twice to Mr Hancock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coco Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 Hi I might be interested, how much longer is it than a standard 2a box as i have a rear saulsbury fitted in a SWB 2a. ian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonk Posted January 8, 2007 Author Share Posted January 8, 2007 gone to someone else for a tad more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROGUE TROOPER Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 MMM now im torn, LT77 or BW66......... How does £100 sound? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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