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Lankytim’s general shite related ranting, Ft mystery 2CV and P4 shittery.


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11 hours ago, Surface Rust said:

 

Changing gears in P4s is a delight, the long throw gear lever and weight of the bits you can feel moving, combined with a solid 'snick' all make it feel like your selecting drive in the Titanic or similar (before the accident).

I'm hoping my box will be a fair bit lighter as I have a poverty spec 95 with no overdrive.

I'll PM about the release bearing, that's a very kind offer.

There is definitely a very mechanical and precise feel to the gear change, like a bolt action  rifle or something. With everything lubricated and back together the gear change is feels even smoother. 
 

The non- OD box is quite a bit shorter and lighter than this one so is easier to remove. I’m after a diff from a 95 as they have a shorter diff to counter the lack of an overdrive. Overdrive cars with a 95 diff can crack 100MPH with ease apparently and make great motorway cruisers. I think classic range rovers have a similar diff that bolts straight in but they have their oil filler on the axle case rather than on the diff housing meaning once fitted to a P4 there’s no way of filling them.  

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Posted
3 hours ago, Lankytim said:

I think classic range rovers have a similar diff that bolts straight in but they have their oil filler on the axle case rather than on the diff housing meaning once fitted to a P4 there’s no way of filling them.  

This any good?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/357677212021

I think what he's doing is getting the guts out of a Range Rover diff and putting them into the front housing from a Series Land Rover - that way a filler is on the flat section of the front housing. Could also be a DIY option if the P4/P5 front housing will take a RR diff straight in?

Posted
4 hours ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

This any good?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/357677212021

I think what he's doing is getting the guts out of a Range Rover diff and putting them into the front housing from a Series Land Rover - that way a filler is on the flat section of the front housing. Could also be a DIY option if the P4/P5 front housing will take a RR diff straight in?

Quite possibly, I’m hoping score a diff for next to nothing tbh, via a complete spares car or job lot of parts. That one does seem a bit pricey for my budget. 

Posted
7 hours ago, Lankytim said:

Quite possibly, I’m hoping score a diff for next to nothing tbh, via a complete spares car or job lot of parts. That one does seem a bit pricey for my budget. 

Aye - there's Series LR diffs all over the place for little money - if you can snag a 3.54 drive's internals then a DIY would be fun? The LR crowd back in my day were always banging on about how 'rubbish' the diffs were and that you needed a Salisbury or an Ashcroft's 'stronger' one - I never knew one to break up as they're proper lumps of Victorian engineering :-) 

Posted
On 09/10/2025 at 06:42, Surface Rust said:

Changing gears in P4s is a delight, the long throw gear lever and weight of the bits you can feel moving, combined with a solid 'snick'...

Yes!  You look at that metre or so of cranked tube and think OSHIT but it's one of the nicest gearshifts I've experienced.  

Thank you @Inspector Morose for trusting me with The Sideboard (1956 Rover 60) way back when.

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Sooo the daily Laguna was in for its MOT last week and it disgraced itself by failing on two items, an incorrectly fitted headlight bulb (that would explain why oncoming motorists keep flashing me- though it was just because I’m so popular) and a rust hole in the drivers sill.. eek!

 

The headlight bulb was easily fixed, especially as it was the passenger side which is easy to get access to, replacing an 80p sidelight bulb on the drivers side requires engine removal. The hole in the drivers sill was a slightly bigger issue.

There’s a patch welded on the drivers sill, apparently a previous owner drove over a set of car ramps and caved the sill in and the patch was there to give the sill its shape back, which it didn’t do a very good job of and looked terrible but there wasn’t any point in disturbing it. This patch has rotted out and behind it was a badly bent sill.

After discussing the situation with the tester I decided to cut the old patch off and see what was behind. The sill really was caved in, the top of the sill had been hammered down to allow the door to open and had been skimmed with filler. With all the corrosion and filler ground away the full ugliness of the sill was revealed. 
 

I pullled the dent out of the sill as best I could via levers through a couple of drainage holes, the whole thing was just looking worse rather than improving. When I couldn’t get any more of the dent out I skimmed the whole lot with filler to give it its shape back,  I painted it with high build primer from Halfords (covers sanding marks apparently), a tin of silver paint I found in the boot and under sealed with some random stuff I found in the garage and stuck it back in for retest which it passed. Hurrah! 
 

This sill repair looks absolutely gash but probably looks a bit better than the massive patch and filler that was there before. Plus there’s another 12 months motoring on the old jalopy which is a bonus on an 18 yr old high miler Renault I think, so overall I’m pretty chuffed. 

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