BW Replacement

Robbie

Robbie

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Anyone have a good link to a write up for an easy swap of a BW? Looks like mine in my '95 LWB is bound up. I have a replacement BW. Do I need to pull the full case? Or can I swap just the BW on the truck? Thanks.
 
rover4x4

rover4x4

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you should be able to replace the viscous coupling insitu. Might as well remove it altogether and swap in an LT230
 
Nomar

Nomar

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rover4x4 said:
you should be able to replace the viscous coupling insitu.
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Yes, the quick and easy fix is just to replace the viscous coupling unit on the front.
Not too hard, unbolt the TC end of the front driveshaft and you can remove the front housing of the BW.
That contains your Viscous coupler.

The longer dirtier fix is to swap in the Leyland Transmission model #230.
 
Robbie

Robbie

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Lol, thanks guys. I will swap just the BW for now. LT230 is something for potentially down the road. Though this truck will probably never be a wheeler, so I like the idea of the VC for the center for ski trips and gravel roads.
 
aliastel

aliastel

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If you are doing lighter use then definitely keep the BW. It is a lot more quiet, refined and better performing in almost all conditions than the LT230.
 
Blueboy

Blueboy

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Maybe easier as you don't have to do anything, yet, not better performing than a locked center diff..
 
aliastel

aliastel

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Blueboy said:
Maybe easier as you don't have to do anything, yet, not better performing than a locked center diff..
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The locked diff can't lock and unlock easily as conditions demand allowing the vehicle to adjust traction to the road. Going slowly in rough terrain you may as well keep it locked, but traveling at speed on rough tracks with changing traction and direction the BW comes into its own.
 
Blueboy

Blueboy

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That is the point. Don't want to have lock and unlock. Just want the power split 50/50 frt to rear. And that is what H Loc enables one to do - travel at speed with the center diff locked. Have had both and the VC just isn't the same.
 
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