hiya ,
just going to take the engine out of my newly acquired donor vehicle, when it struck me,,,," hmmmm, wonder if i can put the diahatsu g/box in as well"?
its going in a series motor , ive not even looked yet, just thought id put this post on here and test the viability of such an idea.
will it be worth it if i could.?
im a dab hand with a welder and grinder.
any ideas/ thoughts
Andy
If you can make it fit go for it. Series box's are notoriosly pooh ( I'm on my 4th in 5 years)
Hope this helps
Would the props line up with the diffs ok? i.e is the transfer box outputs in line with the diffs rather than centre or even the opposite side of the motor?
Lee D
Lee D
It's not exactly exhaustive research, but a custoner has been putting Diahatsu engines in his Series I for years, and finaly got round to putting the Diahatsu gearbox in as well. It didn't work, and a Series II box is now installed. The motor get a hard life towing animals to market (often in a trailer!) so it does get some grief.
Richard
On or around Fri, 25 Feb 2005 08:47:04 +0000 (UTC), beamendsltd enlightened us thusly:
I know someone who has a 2.8 Daihatsu engine and box in a 90, seems to go all right. The vehicle is an ex-UN one, bought with no engine/box and thereby cheaply.
i had a 2.8 daihatsu in up untill xmass then it , kinda , blew up.
so now ive got a 2.8 turbo sat outside waiting to be stripped..
the only problem i thought about the 2.8 was the rev range/gearing. I know they are linked .
i put defender diffs in to up it a bit, but with 7.50`s on and towing my van fully laden it was a struggle to maintain any reasonable speed up hill. slowing down to 10 mph on some not so steep but long drag hills.
this has to be a concoction of the engine-gearbox-final drive diffs.
my idea so far is to put in the engine and its associated box, therefore it would pull as good as it should, the only limiting factor then would be my final diff choice, which at the mo are standard series diffs.
do you think im on the right tracks here? or maybe inviting disaster later on, or,,,,,just talking complete ball**ks.
what would you do if you had the choice??
cheers for input so far, but im a bit scepticle. But whatever, it can all be put back i suppose if it doesnt work , cant it.
andy
On or around Fri, 25 Feb 2005 21:13:59 +0000, dave enlightened us thusly:
the 2.8 non-turbo isn't super-powerful, mind.
if I had the money, 2.8 powerstroke and a R380 box :-)
find out the final drive ratio of the diahatsu, taking into account that they run on smaller wheels. I'd suspect that you're better off with the series diffs, 'specially if you're runnign 7.50s.
5.8:1
On or around Sat, 26 Feb 2005 12:59:00 +1300, EMB enlightened us thusly:
Blimey. In that case whatever you do it'll be overgeared - you'd need a
1-ton low-ratio T-box, or something.
Standard series is 4.7:1 with a 1.148 transfer case reduction, so effective final drive is 5.4:1. Given how low geared the Daihatsu Delta truck is (on 700R16's with the 5.8 ratio) I think you'd be about spot on with the standard LR ratios.
hiya,
i was planning on keeping the diffs as standard, i was more concerned with how the daihatsu t/box would affect running it in all terrains(tarmac,mud,grass,motorways etc,etc),pulling 1 ton caravans up steeeeeep hills in the morning and thundering round trials circuits in the afternoon.
thanks for advice guys, im gunna try and get it in, somehow!
andy
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