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Re: [Fot] Tow vehicle help -Land Rover

To: TeriAnn Wakeman <twakeman@razzolink.com>
Subject: Re: [Fot] Tow vehicle help -Land Rover
From: Jerry Barr <jerrybarr@charter.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:03:14 -0500
I never broke an axle on my Series III and I have done some crazy  
stuff with it. TeriAnn I know you are the FOT authority on landrovers  
so how strong is the overdrive on the series III? Is it up to towing  
with a slightly stronger 2,25 Rover engine?
On Oct 20, 2008, at 10:28 AM, TeriAnn Wakeman wrote:

> fubog1@aol.com wrote:
>> A good friend of mine tells the story of when he was in the British  
>> Army, they would go out on maneuvers with 100 Land Rovers... and  
>> one of them would be full of spare axle shafts for them...
>> Glen with 3 broken axles in 29 years
>
> Series Land Rover axles are not supposed to be shear pins.  The 10  
> spline axles worked fine for the lighter weight late Series I that  
> they were developed for, but are marginal for the heavier Series II  
> and Series III vehicles.  I think it was more a story of the factory  
> being perpetually short on development money and a make due attitude.
> Land Rover used stronger stronger ENV axle assemblies on their  
> heavier duty, one ton versions and finally converted to the  
> Salisbury on the long wheelbase Land Rovers with the introduction of  
> the Series III in the early 1970's.  The Salisbury is a Dana 60  
> built in the UK under license.  The one ton versions and long  
> wheelbase Series III's very seldom broke axles and they had the same  
> basic drive train that the "shear pin" 10 spline axles were used with.
>
> I never realized that there were so many Series Land Rover owners on  
> the FOT list.
>
> Teriann with 7 broken rear axles in 19 years of 109 ownership,  
> followed by zero broken axles in the subsequent 11 years after  
> replacing the Land Rover 10 spline rear axle with a Land Rover  
> Salisbury rear axle.
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