Liberty Diesel

Brian.

For a good diesel site visit

It's for VW diesels but they all sniff diesel fumes and I'm sure you would be welcome.

Joe

I think you are a first here. Wow!

What country are you in?

Our Canadian Diesel is so stinky the vehicles are no fun at all to be behind on a trail so while I would welcome you to join us on an off road run I would like you to bring up the rear. ;-)

The trac loc is nice and give good traction. If you ever are on ice with one rear wheel spinning from a stop, just tap the brake pedal and both wheels will turn. You can do this with open diffs to, but it is harder to learn.

Mike

86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

Brian wrote:

Now that you have met the "anti-diesel" squad, welcome. If you plan on doing any serious off-roading, diffs are an important upgrade. The typoe and percentage dictate which method is best, and how much you should be willing to spend. Aside from being fond of diesels, I never got on the ARB bandwagon, as i don't like things that fail often when used.

Some sites to check out in your quest for Liberty off road modifications are:

pub21.ezboard.com/bkjjeep

Whew!

differential.

Mike, The newer diesels here, like the VWs, and those MB "Smart" cars have catalytic convertors.....they burn CLEAN, and have very little smell....A buddy drives a VW Golf TDI, and even in a parkade, parked between other cars, and idling, you'd never guess it was a diesel. Also, by '07, our diesel is supposed to be lower sulphur than europe's.

I'd imagine the new KJ CRD is likely to be on par with these mini diesels.

Paul

Mike Roma> I think you are a first here. Wow!

ARBs don't fail often when used....they fail often when NOT used. The O-Rings dry out and crack if they're not actuated often. If you use them a lot, they last alot longer!

However, for a Libby, I'd probably reccommend something like a Tractech Truetrac....or if there's a desire for something that will lock, an Electrac or Aubrun Ectec if they're available for the Libby axle. LSD or spool at a flick of a switch.

Paul

Paul Calman wrote:

I will maybe revise my opinion next time I have to follow one, but haven't seen any.

The busses are still a killer to get stuck behind with the top down. They haven't started cleaning the sulfur out yet I don't think.

Mike

Paul Keat>

Busses certainly aren't the best vehicles to judge....big inefficient, poorly maintained oil burners....Talk about environmental damage.....an engine capable of pulling 20+ tons, running around town empty, or with

2-3 people onboard, except for rush hour. I haven't seen one yet that a bad injector didn't cause a plume of black smoke whenever the driver stomps on the accellerator....

Even the folks' Ford F250 Superduty is like a freakin electric car conpared to a city bus

The VW TDI's are very difficult to tell they're diesel other than the badge on the back.... and the turbo whine sounds a little different than the turbo gassers.....They're maggoty on the roads around Ottawa. They get a sweet 1000+ km per 52 liter tank, and their torque peak is right about 100-110 km/hr in 5th gear. I didn't even realize the MB Smart cars were diesel till I saw one at the pump and then checked it out online to find out they only imported the diesel version to NA.

Paul

Mike Roma> I will maybe revise my opinion next time I have to follow one, but > haven't seen any.

My experience with them is only on two local guy's jeeps, they seem to spend a bit on them to keep them working, at least one leak every year. Last summer one rear wouldn't disengage. My two Powr-loks still work just fine.

Agreed. I have an RV with a CAT 3126E that has virtually no diesel smell at all. The 7.5kw diesel generator is another story, however.

Diesel smell doesn't bother me much, though. It's the smell of power.

Zombies don't complain so much ;-)

"L.W. ("ßill") Hughes III" wrote

You sound like you've had a real careless upbringing.

I didn't imply you were wrong. Just rude. In my experience, unwarranted rudeness to strangers is the result of a careless upbringing.