What have you done on your 90/110/130 today?

Gearbox #3 going in along with a clutch change.
Out comes the disaster that is an LOF HD unit and in goes a more gentle Valeo model...

miktdish said:

Gearbox #3 going in along with a clutch change.
Out comes the disaster that is an LOF HD unit and in goes a more gentle Valeo model...

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Interestingly when my son had a couple of qoutes for a new tdi clutch neither of the specialists offered a LOF clutch as an option.
Hope it goes well.

Anaconda said:

Interestingly when my son had a couple of qoutes for a new tdi clutch neither of the specialists offered a LOF clutch as an option.
Hope it goes well.

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Theres a reason for that, mainly driving around on the road with occasional off road (fields/farm land) type activities you don't need such a strong spring set that transfers to much (pulsating) energy into what is a complex gearbox.
You also don't need those forces transfering across to the transmission in general.

I think they possibly have thier place, in a competition vehicle, one with strengthened halfshafts and drive members, pegged diffs and uprated transfer and gearboxes.
In a standard car all they do is introduce a death rattle to the syncho's and selectors. This causes the clients to complain about the horrible noises that wasn't there before.

I didn't see anything special about them, they look like a well made Chinese product with some peripheral Britpart bits to make a 'kit'.
It's not bad quality it's just not neccesary, I made a mistake fitting it in the first place and would urge others not to make the same (expensive) error.

One of the rear hubs developed a slight weep.