Easy 4WD system question

This might sound like a silly question but someone at work told me today that my discos 4wd system worked just the same as his frontera.
I'm told that my disco is rear wheel drive until i engage low range which also activates the front propshaft and makes it 4 wheel drive. ???

I honestly don't know, but i just thought the disco was permenant 4wd ??

I read about the series gear sticks and i understand that because they have a separate lever for engaging 4wd

Somebody please educate me

All landrovers since 1984 have been permanent 4wd with a center difflock.
Your friend is an idiot who knows fook all about landys or 4wd systems apparently. ??

Slightly harsh perhaps Redhand, but in essence your comment is correct.

The bloke's mate is a lacking-in-knowledge-and-accurate-information ****

Thank you, I feel sooooh much better now, Nurse, nurse, can Davy have a little more medicine, please?

thebiglad said:

Slightly harsh perhaps Redhand, but in essence your comment is correct.

The bloke's mate is a lacking-in-knowledge-and-accurate-information ****

Thank you, I feel sooooh much better now, Nurse, nurse, can Davy have a little more medicine, please?

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No. If he bought a Frontera he's an idiot.

Yeah your mates talking out of his backside, no other way to say it

Your disco will be 4x4 all the time, with power always going to both props, but the power will go 'the easiest way'. So if one of your front or real wheels spins then all the power will go to that wheel. When you engage diff lock it forces both props to turn at the same speed, so in order for you to spin wheels now you must spin one wheel at the front and one at the back at the same time.

It operates the same in high or low range, with the only difference obviously being the gear ratios which = speed.

Not sure how the fronteras work....but judging by his landy knowledge your mate dosent either

TheMunster said:

Not sure how the fronteras work....but judging by his landy knowledge your mate dosent either

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Fronteras are bog standard old technology - rear wheel drive with 4wd on demand. Vauxhall were so keen to sell them they gave a bunch of us a free morning's thrash round a wood. The "expert" instructor gave us a classroom lecture about how much safer the 2wd system was. How we tittered. He then took us off road and made a big thing about always putting the front wheel on top of tree stumps to avoid ripping the suspension off. Then the exhaust caught on something and fell off. I don't think any of us bought one...

PASTMASTER said:

Fronteras are bog standard old technology - rear wheel drive with 4wd on demand. Vauxhall were so keen to sell them they gave a bunch of us a free morning's thrash round a wood. The "expert" instructor gave us a classroom lecture about how much safer the 2wd system was. How we tittered. He then took us off road and made a big thing about always putting the front wheel on top of tree stumps to avoid ripping the suspension off. Then the exhaust caught on something and fell off. I don't think any of us bought one...

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Don't you just love it when someone trys to "big something up" and then makes themself look a complete tulip in the process. makes me ****.

ScaniaStu said:

Don't you just love it when someone trys to "big something up" and then makes themself look a complete c*u*n*t in the process. makes me ****.

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But be fair - he WAS being paid by Vauxhall to try to sell the things. There's crap jobs and crap jobs though - I think he had drawn the short straw.

Thank you very much for all your replies everyone, i'm still learning about all the mechanical stuff but i was sure the discovery was 4wd all the time. So the series land rovers have selectable 4wd and low/high range and the 90/110/defenders are permenant 4wd with low/high range and diff lock!. I get it.
Thanks again people.

ScaniaStu said:

Don't you just love it when someone trys to "big something up" and then makes themself look a complete c*u*n*t in the process. makes me ****.

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like this dude

RyanP said:

Thank you very much for all your replies everyone, i'm still learning about all the mechanical stuff but i was sure the discovery was 4wd all the time. So the series land rovers have selectable 4wd and low/high range and the 90/110/defenders are permenant 4wd with low/high range and diff lock!. I get it.
Thanks again people.

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And remember the very first Land Rovers also had permanent four wheel drive (via a freewheel arrangement operated by a "bog chain"). And there were also a few made with 2wd for special purposes. And then of course there were the six wheelers, and the half-track conversions.....