Transmission and Axle Upgrades
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Deeper Diff Gears For Nissan Patrol Axles
IF YOU’VE GOT A VEHICLE running Nissan Patrol axles (it might even be a Nissan Patrol itself), these new diff gears from Californian outfit Rugged Rocks might be just what you need in your life. Developed in collaboration with Revolution Gear and Axle, the new gear sets are for the mighty H233B axle – as found on the Y60 and...
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Stronger Diff Pin for LT230
IF YOU HAVE AN LT230 transfer case about your person you’ll know that sometimes even the toughest things break, which means weaker thingsbreak even sooner. Syncro Gearboxes feels your pain but have decided not to empathise but to do something about it.
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A WELCOME BOOST FOR DEFENDER OWNERS
The Land Rover Defender is famous for many things. One of them, especially if you go back a model or two, is its heavy clutch.
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HEAVY-DUTY RT DIFF COVERS FROM UK JEEPS
ARE YOU WORRIED about your differentials? Don’t you think you should be? Is it really okay to just drift through life as if you don’t have a care in the world? You’re responsible for your diffs, just as much as for your children. You have a duty to protect them.
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Proper gearshifts for old Landies
One of the nicest things about driving a Land Rover Defender is that lovely mechanical feeling as you change gear. Unless it’s a knackered old affair with a stick that feels like rummaging around in the dark for the contact lens you’ve dropped in a shag-pile carpet, at least.
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Alders brings Winters shifters to Britain
YOU MIGHT RECALL the beautiful Isuzu-engined YJ Wrangler that graced the cover of our June issue last year. Its owner, Richard Alder, is the man behind Alders Automotive – which, despite specialising in transmissions for classic American cars, has become more and more involved in the off-road business in recent times.
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Lower price for Polybush bumps
Polybush has lowered the price about driving a Land Rover Defender is that lovely mechanical feeling as you change gear. Unless it’s a knackered old affair with a stick that feels like rummaging around in the dark for the contact lens you’ve dropped in a shag-pile carpet, at least.
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Breathing new life into Land Rover gearboxes
ONE OF THE NICEST THINGS about driving a Land Rover Defender is that lovely mechanical feeling as you change gear. Unless it’s a knackered old affair with a stick that feels like rummaging around in the dark for the contact lens you’ve dropped in a shag-pile carpet, at least.
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XS4x4 brings Pro-Locker to Britain
IT’S NOT EVERY DAY that you get to talk about a whole new range of locking diffs. Particularly not when they’re pukka gear from Australia rather than blatant fakes made of tinfoil from… well, you know where.
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Reinforcements For Patrol Axles
More and more people are turning to the Nissan Patrol as a source of axles for hardcore off-road builds. And to make it that bit easier to do so, Off Road Armoury now offers a Y61 Steering Knuckle Gusset kit for axles taken from Patrols built between 1997 and 2010.
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EBC Brakes Added to Britpart Range
Britpart's range of braking products has just expanded further than ever to include a wide variety of fitments from EBC. These include the Yellow Stuff, Green Stuff and Ultimax ranges, with excellent general availability covering the Disco 4, Range Rover Sport, Evoque and Range Rover L322 and L405.
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New Brakes for Old Trucks
Land Rover axles have found their way on to all sorts of different trucks over the years. Normally these days it’s the later, coil-sprung units that people try to hunt down, but there are still plenty of old down-home trials motors and playday beaters going about on Series I, II...
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Powerbrake Comes to UK
Last month, we told you the story of Benediktas Vanagas, the Dakar driver who completed the rally despite wiping out the front of his Hi-Lux three times and having to do the second half of the event with a broken wrist.
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Kam Launches Drop In Locker
We all know the benefits of having diff locks on our 4x4s. Engage them in the right place and ye with them shalt travel further than ye without…
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New Halfshafts To Sort Out Jeep Axles
If your off-road ride of choice has a Jeep badge on its bonnet, there’s a decent chance that you might be in the market for stronger halfshafts. The Dana 30 and 35c that went under Cherokees and Wranglers of old aren’t famed for their strength: they’re actually much tougher than...
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KAM's Monster Axles
When it comes to heavy-duty axles, KAM’s new 5t units are going to take some beating. In the hands of most of the people who’ll ever own a set, actually, ‘take some beating’ is exactly what they’ll do, but seldom has any item of off-road kit looked better prepared to...
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Stainless Brake Caliper Pistons from Britpart
Britpart has introduced a range of stainless brake caliper pistons for Land Rovers. The kits, which contain all you need to replace the pistons on both sides of one axle, are available for the Defender 90, 110 and 130, Disco 1 and Range Rover Classic. Head for www.britpart.co.uk.
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Britpart's Tougher Drive Flanges
Modifying a Land Rover can be about an awful lot of different things, but few of them will ever be more important than adding strength to its axles. Everyone thinks about things like line-bored halfshafts and beefier CV joints here, but if you’re doing a belt and braces job you’ll...
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12-Pot Brakes for V8 Land Cruiser
Does the word 'armour' make you think about metal plates that stop rocks from putting fist-sized holes in your sump? Or trucks that keep you safe from angry people who want to stop you from nicking their country?
