Got some wheels and tyres off Gumtree this afternoon

"4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30" (4muddyfeet) 09/21/2015 at 12:56 • Filed to: None

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‘P38 or Discovery 2 wheels and tyres. 3 out of 4 tyres have slow punctures but can’t see where, tyres good tread, alloys OK condition (read: crappy), £20 the lot’

Okey dokey. If anything they’d still be useful for off-road use, so I took the lot. And wouldn’t you know it? After pumping them upto 40psi, not one of the tyres has a puncture, just leaky beads. Very leaky beads. Score one for a Monday!

Anyone want some free Disco 2/P38 alloys? I only want the rubber.

CalzoneGolem > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 09/21/2015 at 13:03

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Those are some sketchy looking tyres bro.

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > CalzoneGolem 09/21/2015 at 13:33

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Light sidewall damage. Turn ‘em round and nobody knows!

CalzoneGolem > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 09/21/2015 at 13:34

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I know.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 09/21/2015 at 13:50

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I found myself slightly annoyed at your better access to Random Rovering Objects over the weekend, as there was a man on eBay selling a whole SIII Salisbury rear for 70 quid. ‘Twould be the best and most sane solution for better power handling in the 109 we’re Mercedes diesel swapping, but nooooooo.

Admitted, we’d have had to buy a set of Dana 60 or D90 Salisbury 3.53 gears for it, but still.

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/21/2015 at 14:03

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Bits and pieces pop up on eBay and Gumtree for dirt cheap quite regularly, often in job lots or with multiple other listings from the same seller.

I’ve always assumed that this is due to wives and girlfriends laying down the law regarding the hoarding of Land Rover parts within the supposed sanctity of the British Man’s Shed. Or living room. Or bathroom.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 09/21/2015 at 14:17

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109 drums in the bedroom - right out.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 09/21/2015 at 15:30

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Further on the “piles of parts” sort of thing, I’ve just eBayed three things for my abomination. A SeaDoo jet pump, a driveshaft for it, and the main trans shaft from a Ford Ranger 4wd to make a shaft from for my backwards transfer case. I’ll have pics up when I do things with them.

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/21/2015 at 16:37

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I need to know though, which part of the jet pump do you need? Just the spline/boss, or have you gone full What Would McGyver Do?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 09/21/2015 at 17:08

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Basically the whole little gizmo you see in this pic, and with a duct included, like below:

The four bolts will be attached to a sheet metal box which will serve as an inlet duct/thing-for-the-unit-to-push-on, itself connected to the suspension frame. As you can see, the Sea Doo model has the impeller supported on its own bearing, and is pretty much self-contained. The shaft that drives it has a seal to the tip there, and is a ball-spline lovely like this:

Which is to say, it’s got a bit of slip and off-axis ability to it. I’ll be setting a standard U-joint yoke on the other end, along with about 10” of extra length in DOM tubing, and that U-joint will bolt straight to the transfer case secondary out.

The (originally) trans end of the Borg Warner 1354 is going to have a short slip yoke made up out of that trans main shaft, which will slip into the splines there and be sealed in grease with a driveshaft gaiter around that bit you see at top right. That yoke will hook to a short (<24”) driveshaft of fixed length driving my rear axle pinion. The former output, now input (bottom right) will be set up with a pretty standard driveshaft to the trans - it’s got a slip yoke on the back end. U-joint for the jet drive bolts in the yoke on upper left. No mid-shaft slip yokes or anything, all fixed lengths with sealed slip splines to respective drive elements.

The transfer case has a linear-actuated sleeve to engage 2hi, neutral, 4hi, 4lo. That sleeve engages a dog clutch pair on the main shaft for straight drive or a planetary sun, and a spline for the drive chain. In 2hi, the drive goes straight through - no secondary engagement. That’s my normal drive - trans to Jag diff. When the sleeve slides through to neutral, all is neutral. Sliding to 4hi, it catches the straight-through connection again and locks the chain secondary - that’s my rwd + water drive (getting in/out of the water). Sliding to 4lo, that leaves the chain secondary locked, and attempts to combine the former out/now in (bottom right) and the secondary (upper left) with the planetary underdrive... which won’t be there. Neutral - no connection to the output to the rear end, but with the two “outputs” locked together, one of which is the input.

All clear? The only trick is that the transfer case has a fluid pump to make sure everything stays oiled, and because a Ranger is not meant to run for hours in reverse, I’ll have to flip that fluid pump around. Everything else is perfectly alright - designed to run in reverse as well as forward, and (thanks to the low-range) built for greater torque than I’ll ever need. The SeaDoo pump, now, is meant to circulate lubricant in its bearing... where was it I had a fluid pump I could include it in the pass of? Oh, right.

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/21/2015 at 18:06

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That is absolutely positively fantastic. Although I do keep forgetting that this lunacy is supposed to be water-borne.