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Brad
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 29, 2003 - 10:30 pm: | 
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Has anyone tried the QT Services (http://www.qtservices.co.uk/) diff guards on their DII? Just ordered a pair and wondered about quality and ease of installation?? Thanks, Brad
'01 Black DII |
Jeremy Katka (Jkatka)
| | Posted on Thursday, January 30, 2003 - 12:15 am: |
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A guy up here in Seattle got front and back. They are really stout looking. Ya have to know how to weld some tabs and probly need a jack or extra hands to get them on. I drank beer and watched the install 
JK |
Brad
| | Posted on Thursday, January 30, 2003 - 01:14 pm: |
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Was the welding required or an after thought to make it better? |
Jeremy Katka (Jkatka)
| | Posted on Thursday, January 30, 2003 - 01:19 pm: |
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required You have to put two tabs on. One on each side of the diff. These tabs allow the side of the diffguard to bolt on to something.
JK |
Rick Lindgren (Slacker)
| | Posted on Thursday, January 30, 2003 - 03:17 pm: |
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Brad, I'm the guy Jeremy is referring to. The welding is required for the front diff guard.
The original design for the front wrapped around the diff and connected on top. However, since we have our steering linkages attaching on the wrong side (from a British perspective) and because the DII has so much plastic aerodynamic cowling underneath, they modified the design to fit our diffs. It still provides full front and underside protection (including where the track rod passes under/behind the diff) but attaches via two tabs that are welded to either side of the diff housing. The rear diff is strictly bolt on in several places.
Pointers:
Have some friends over. The design tolerances are very tight and you have to muscle things into place on the rear diff until you get the bolts in.
Do the top part of the rear diff first and push the lower part into place for the final bolts.
Bolt the front guard to the underside of the diff securely before welding the tabs.
Have a tap set ready. The holes under my front diff were so corroded and full of mud that I had to tap them before bolts would go in. You need an M10 - 1.25 tap.
Have a grinder handy. The tabs were slightly out of alignment when the welding was finished and we ground a little of the tab face to make the guard slide on smoothly.
Paint the tabs and any ground/welded areas afterward to avoid rust.
It seems like a lot of work but it isn't really that bad. They fit very closely to the truck and are good thick metal. I have been very happy with their performance so far. I think they are going to get another good test this weekend so I will let you know how they hold up. I also owe some pictures of them to some folks so I will try to take some good shots this weekend.
Rick |
brad
| | Posted on Friday, February 07, 2003 - 06:03 pm: |
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Rick, Thanks for the tips. Put mine on yesterday and they seem to be very solid (not tested yet though). You a definatly right about having some metric taps onhand. I noticed even the tapped holes in the new guards sould have a tap run through them to clean out the threads. I was fortunate enough to do mine on a lift which made welding a lot easier. I took several before-during-after pics if anyone is interested.
Brad 01 black DII |
Rick Lindgren (Slacker)
| | Posted on Friday, February 07, 2003 - 08:27 pm: |
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Brad, I'm glad they went on easily. Man, a lift would have been nice.
Rick |
Paul D. Morgan (V22guy)
| | Posted on Friday, February 07, 2003 - 10:05 pm: |
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I emailed QT a dozen time before I got a single response. And that respeonse was, "No, we don't make dif guards for the D2."
Well Fuck I said and ordered the Southdown stuff. |
Rick Lindgren (Slacker)
| | Posted on Saturday, February 08, 2003 - 09:27 pm: |
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Paul, their e-mail on their website is shitty. I was interacting directly with one of the guys at the company. I think my constant e-mails are part of what drove them to start making the D2 guards. As far as I know, I got one of the first ones that they made. Mine saved my ass this last weekend on the Lake Isabele trail. I ended up taking some nasty hits to the rear diff and third member that were all absorbed by the QT guard.
Rick |
Paul D. Morgan (V22guy)
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Registered: 02-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, February 09, 2003 - 05:13 pm: |
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Well Good job Harassing them Rick. A lot of companies are starting to catch on to the D2 thing. BTW, great pics from Lake Isabelle.
Paul
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Mike B.
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| | Posted on Sunday, February 09, 2003 - 06:31 pm: |
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I too have diff guards from QT Services. My wife bought them for my birthday from Nathan Crabtree (www.discountrovers.com). I had questions and both QT Services and Nathan responded immediately. I'm really happy with the guards. I had to weld the fronts on too.
Thanks,
Mike B. |
Mike B.
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| | Posted on Sunday, February 09, 2003 - 06:32 pm: |
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Oops. I forgot to add that mine are for the D1. |
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