Viscous coupling IRD Issues
Hi All, new to this forum but have owned 98 1.8 freelander for 6 months and have had to become instant expert on what it means to own an early Freelander. (Love the car in spite of it all!!!)
Had new (replacement) motor and new clutch in first month(98K km). Since then have discovered the wonders of LR's design job with the VCU and IRD. VCU is locked solid. Have dropped entire tail shaft out and using as two wheel drive pending some sort of resolution (to protect rear diff and IRD which although a little noisy still seem functional)
Seems to me the whole problem of locked VCU's, wrong front to rear diff ratio selection, IRD and gearbox destruction etc etc could be solved very simply by chucking out the VCU and replacing it with a simple manually switchable coupling in the tailshaft ie a single central equivalent to the old freewheeling/lockable front hubs on the old landcruisers etc.
I have been searching all the forums and while I seem to get plenty of agreement with the concept, no one seems to have actually come up with anything.
Any thoughts
Cheers
Ian Hughes
Tassie
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