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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