Lorin
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Right, not wanting to kick off anything here but.....
There is a fair bit of evidence suggesting that the only significant weakness in the 80 drivetrain is the front diff - Oz forums often describe them blowing even without serious abuse. Our plan is now to ship the 80 to Oz in 2013 to do 6 months of serious offroad trail driving. The truck will obviously be pretty loaded/heavy with a LR tank, fair amount of water onboard as well as all the required camping gear etc.
Now I know that there is an argument that driven carefully we shouldn't have a problem and that by strengthening the diff you just transfer the stress somewhere else. However, I am all for sorting things before they have a chance to occur wherever possible and I'll take my chances with the whole stress transfer bit. So, I am investigating my options for strengthening the front end.
Ozzie forums often mention installing the front diff from the Nissan GU patrol but there is scant little info on what exactly is required - I have posted on Offroad 80s to try and find out more. I am interested in hearing what other options there are. I assume one would be to install cryo treated gears and Longfield CVs but is that all that would be required and are there any other options
Any advice greatly appreciated
There is a fair bit of evidence suggesting that the only significant weakness in the 80 drivetrain is the front diff - Oz forums often describe them blowing even without serious abuse. Our plan is now to ship the 80 to Oz in 2013 to do 6 months of serious offroad trail driving. The truck will obviously be pretty loaded/heavy with a LR tank, fair amount of water onboard as well as all the required camping gear etc.
Now I know that there is an argument that driven carefully we shouldn't have a problem and that by strengthening the diff you just transfer the stress somewhere else. However, I am all for sorting things before they have a chance to occur wherever possible and I'll take my chances with the whole stress transfer bit. So, I am investigating my options for strengthening the front end.
Ozzie forums often mention installing the front diff from the Nissan GU patrol but there is scant little info on what exactly is required - I have posted on Offroad 80s to try and find out more. I am interested in hearing what other options there are. I assume one would be to install cryo treated gears and Longfield CVs but is that all that would be required and are there any other options
Any advice greatly appreciated