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Vehicle & Technical => Series Land Rovers => Topic started by: landykins on January 20, 2006, 21:49:01

Title: salisbury axle
Post by: landykins on January 20, 2006, 21:49:01

What is a salisbury axle? Is it an after maket bit or something that comes with your land rover and if so, how do you tell you have one?

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Post by: Paul on January 20, 2006, 21:53:31

Have a look and see if the rear axle looks like this:

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Post by: Rich_P on January 20, 2006, 22:19:02

I think military 109s also had them on the front?  Or was that the 110 Wolfs?

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Post by: Sheddy on January 20, 2006, 22:24:26

Is a sailisbury axle a good or bad thing?

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Post by: Tigger on January 20, 2006, 23:17:49

Salisbury made axles for all sorts of vehicles.  Land Rover fitted variants of them to the larger / heavier duty vehicles such as the Series 3 109, 101, etc.

They are generally very strong and last well, but are heavy and harder to fix than the Rover equivalent.

As in Paul's picture, the Salisbiry axles will have a removable pan on the back of the axle.

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Post by: Miniman on January 22, 2006, 18:40:32

I have a Salisbury axel on my 109 and also was wondering if you can upgrade them in ratio...?

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Post by: muddyweb on January 22, 2006, 20:48:43

Not easily... a normal 109 will have a 4.7:1 diff.   If you can find one, the Series 3 Stage 1 V8 has a 3.54:1 Salisbury on the rear, which matches a Range Rover diff you could stick in the front.... but Stage 1 axles are few and far between.

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Post by: muddyweb on January 22, 2006, 20:49:53

Just to follow that up...  you'd need to find a replacement crownwheel and pinion to fit your existing axle to change the one you have.   And it's not a fun job.

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Post by: 22900013A on January 31, 2006, 12:22:41

Quote from: "Steel"

I think military 109s also had them on the front?  Or was that the 110 Wolfs?

No, the one ton series III and some specials (eg TACR) had salisbury fronts but it was not a standard fit on military vehicles.
The wolf, oddly, uses rover diffs front and back, even on 110s so far as I have seen.

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Post by: muddyweb on January 31, 2006, 20:28:23

The Wolf does indeed use a Rover type.  It's the same as was used on the P38 and Disco 2

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Post by: 22900013A on February 01, 2006, 09:41:58

Ah, so thats what they are...I thought it looked a bit odd when I looked under a 110 wolf, that explains it then, I assumed it was to do with comptability (eg one axle for all models)

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Post by: ross501 on February 04, 2006, 20:22:06

is it easy to fit range rover diffs into a series landy i have a set that i can put in and was wondering what i need and how easy it is

Title: salisbury axle
Post by: muddyweb on February 04, 2006, 21:42:31

Yep... provided you have 10 spline RR diffs.

Just make sure you have either oil filler holes on the axles, or oil filler holes on the diffs.... else you can't get the oil in ;-)

Title: salisbury axle
Post by: ross501 on February 05, 2006, 18:05:08

will pull a shaft out and have a look tomorrow there are oil filler holes on the series diff case