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1 hour ago, skyhuck said:

Virtually all axles have a diff, the diff allows each wheel to turn at a different speed, which makes going round corners much easier, as the outside wheel effectively overtakes the inside wheel, so needs to turn faster. This also means the diff only drives the wheel which requires least force to turn. You can see this when you jack up one side of a car and engage drive, only the wheel off the ground spins.

So 2 wheel drive cars are only really 1 wheel drive, but the wheel that drive swaps from side to side.

 

With permanent 4x4 they simply add another diff between the 2 axles, so now which ever of the 4 wheels that requires the least force is driven. Generally you can lock the centre diff, this then means 1 wheel on the front axle will drive and 1 on the rear axle.

 

To get genuine 4x4 you need diff locks on all the diffs.

Land cruiser Amazon with front, centre and rear diff locks is prolly a good example.

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I think y defender 130 has a good set up:
Heavy duty blue polybushes throughout, rear adjustable air helper springs within the coils, 2x sets of BFG tyres (AT’s for the summer & MT’s for the winter / gooey stuff), font and rear Ashcroft air lockers, Superwinch Husky10, LazerLamp Lightbars and a JE Motors Tune+ Stage 2 upgrade.

That’s the beauty of a defender, it is customisable to what he owned/operator needs.

I’ve looked at the Tibet Portal Hub conversion but I think with my Ashcroft air lockers, I’ve got what I need for good Offroad performance (I also don’t have the £15k for the conversion at the moment either.... (http://www.tibus-offroad.com/en/products/bolt-on-portals/land-rover/).

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1 hour ago, HertsWood said:

I think y defender 130 has a good set up:
Heavy duty blue polybushes throughout, rear adjustable air helper springs within the coils, 2x sets of BFG tyres (AT’s for the summer & MT’s for the winter / gooey stuff), font and rear Ashcroft air lockers, Superwinch Husky10, LazerLamp Lightbars and a JE Motors Tune+ Stage 2 upgrade.

That’s the beauty of a defender, it is customisable to what he owned/operator needs.

I’ve looked at the Tibet Portal Hub conversion but I think with my Ashcroft air lockers, I’ve got what I need for good Offroad performance (I also don’t have the £15k for the conversion at the moment either.... (http://www.tibus-offroad.com/en/products/bolt-on-portals/land-rover/).

Yer Landy sounds ideal.  I bet the traction it can put down with those air lockers engaged is impressive. You have built the truck thats is right for you,  also sounds loike ya know what yer doing and are no afraid to have a tinker with the spanners.

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12 hours ago, HertsWood said:

I think y defender 130 has a good set up:
Heavy duty blue polybushes throughout, rear adjustable air helper springs within the coils, 2x sets of BFG tyres (AT’s for the summer & MT’s for the winter / gooey stuff), font and rear Ashcroft air lockers, Superwinch Husky10, LazerLamp Lightbars and a JE Motors Tune+ Stage 2 upgrade.

That’s the beauty of a defender, it is customisable to what he owned/operator needs.

I’ve looked at the Tibet Portal Hub conversion but I think with my Ashcroft air lockers, I’ve got what I need for good Offroad performance (I also don’t have the £15k for the conversion at the moment either.... (http://www.tibus-offroad.com/en/products/bolt-on-portals/land-rover/).

Once I've got my own defender, I'll probably want to do a lot of the stuff you've added on. 

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