@marshalllucky - as it happens, the Range Rover is the best for this sort of thing - no other vehicle would have been better unless it was a huge military vehicle. The Range Rover really needed winter tyres for a more successful pull. So when the bus was freed from the ice and snow, what will it do then? How far will it go before getting stuck again? May as well have left it there.
I love how people demonise 4x4s until it snows or is in any way useful to them. I use to stop and help people, I just wave and drive by now. Not risking axles and burning fuel for a population that want to tax us off the road
@mukageegee um, first - the old rangeys like that didn't all have diff lock, most of them had the borg warner viscous coupling. second - the coupling is locking or it is in diff lock because all 4 wheels are spinning, without either the wheel with less grip will just spin. third - low range is not always helpful when your trying to get momentum into something like that.
by the sounds of it it was low range, but that aside range rovers have only a central differential lock, hence the lack of all 4 wheels spinning, if he had axle lockers all 4 wheels would spin together! either way, it pulled the bus!! simple!! i own a disco and it pulled many thing out of the snow including a 15 ton 4 axle rigid!
I'm not sure, most of the early rangeys I've seen had the viscous coupling, which is basically an automatic difflock - it locks when the wheels start to slip up the car will drive normally when there is no differential in speed between the front and back axles. You can manually lock the coupling but it requires taking it apart, something done on challenge vehicles. Also this rangey has had some modifications to its drive train as it looks to of had locking differentials fitted front and back.
RANGE ROVER Classics have a Centre Diff Lock as standard from the factory, After market front and rear diff locks or Limited Slip Diffs can be fitted also BUT !! Must be disengaged as soon as Traction is regained otherwise the Transmission will Wind Up and Break something. The front wheels were not turning Together ALL of the time hence it is likely that the Centre Diff was Locked but no front and rear lockers are fitted. PROPER RANGE ROVER HERE !!!!!!!!!!!, All 3 latest Range Rovers are Pretenders and would'nt pull the skin of a rice puddn !! and will be beyond economical use after around 6-8 years old due to all the Electronic Unnecessary Bull Shit Trickery that will fail and cost more to mend in down time and Ackers than its worth.
@themunster Thanks for the info. It's great when we get someone with real info on mechanical history. Do you know what criteria for borg warner and centre air diff lock was for these BTW.?
@maradonasssssss difflock locks the transmission diff but this dosent fully help because the diffs on the axles still have a limited slip diff which means when you corner less power is put to the wheel with weight on it, you have to buy air lockers and put them in your diffs when activates it will lock them completely and its unstoppable!!
we pulled an articulated lorry off of lidl car park with a land cruiser amazon a couple of years back in the snow, it's funny how all of a sudden people stop hating 4 wheel drives...
@bertyUK i can just tell my own experience, ive worked in a land rover service and most of the time we had customers coming, most of the faults were electrical problems
@SRSpoony True the old British Landrovers are really neat. However, for what is fresh off the production line today, I think Toyota has a more impressive lineup. :)
@SRSpoony True, the old ones are way nice! Still today I prefer a new production line Toyota to a new production line Range Rover. The Rangerover has simply gotten too fancy with too many breakable parts..
@mukageegee this has limited slip diffs in it you can see that by the way it locks up when it starts to spin one side but still oulling a 13 and half tonne bus up a hill is not a bad effort by a long stretch
It doesn't look your average range rover though does it, rideheight, tyres and snorkel so he might know. I don't know about the diffs but all 4 wheels were spinning and you can't tell what range it's in by looking at wheelspin!
@solgabert nope actually im not im just a fan of british old school stuff, nothing im a fan of jsut we USED to build the best and badest but now we dont build jack, trying to big up the old boys more than anything. i have a british landy old military v8 plus a starex 4x4 amoungst italian motorbike and v8 1971 challenger mopar.
That hasnt got difflocks all round for sure, its got decent tyres a raised air intake witch makes no diffence in the snow, possibly a 2inch lift witch again makes no diffence here.
@cerberuszj33 Alright who doesn't know his/her arse from their elbow? When did I say it had a diff lock on the "differentials themselves"? If you can't understand these things, don't go around these sites leaving disrespectful comments. And BTW I do know that the diff lock is on the transfer case as I rebuilt mine after disolving the diff during a nasty climb in a race. So there!
Hi, I'm contacting you from the Channel 5 series Winter Road Rescue - would you be happy for us to use this clip in the show? My email is - harry@specialeditionfilms.com Thanks!
