CF Bedford Van

[Holden202T]

so nothing stopping me now, picked up the LSD crewman diff today, by all accounts looks to be in really good nick! I can't turn the axles opposite ways so that LSD is looking good

time to start measuring and cutting!

[firebug]

so nothing stopping me now, picked up the LSD crewman diff today, by all accounts looks to be in really good nick! I can't turn the axles opposite ways so that LSD is looking good

time to start measuring and cutting!

[Holden202T]

after much procrastinating and measuring and spreadsheeting and such, I finally made a bit of progress over the weekend, decided on a length and cut into the diff tube!

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so this is the passenger side which was the short axle side, its been lengthened 85mm which is the smallest I could make it.

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so once I did the cutting I tack welded the longer end onto the diff and stuck it all in the van for a dummy fitting and measure of track widths, its currently over the maximum track increase by 8mm so it means I need to shorten the driver side by 10mm and i'll be just right!

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for those that don't know, the axles are roughly 12mm longer splined than needed and so this means you can put them in ~10mm further and then trim the excess off the end to allow it all to still work and this is the saving grace of my conversion to just get it under the max track width increase....

this below picture is an old LSD centre I had (fucked from water) which I cut into it to reveal the spots I needed to see so I can install it into the diff and work out widths/spline lengths to get the max out of it I can you can see that this axle has 2mm spline left on the end so its not going to bottom out!

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I bought some tube to use for sleeves this morning so hopefully this week I can get most of the diff tube lengthening done and dusted!

[Gareth]

Nice work!!!

Do you intend on running a rear sway bar on this?

[Holden202T]

well maybe one day, not sure .... I did get the original crewman bar with the diff but it goes backwards and will most likely hit on my exhaust so might look at fitting a forward facing one like earlier model commodores....

the van currently doesn't have one in the front so if anything I'll be fitting one that end first!

[HQ355]

Nice work, your the 1st person I've heard of making a diff wider lol

[Holden202T]

yeah its an odd concept to me too hahahahah I've done shortened borgies for Gemini, torana, HR holden etc but never wider

when I was buying the van I actually got the owner to measure across the front and rear wheels, was 1930mm front side to side ..... the widest trailer I could find was 1970mm or something like that! but that is a fair bit wider than stock, the mags that were on it sat out about 2 inchs more than stockers .....

and my driveway is 2300mm wide!

[HQ355]

That's great, you can still get it sideways in the drive way lol

[Holden202T]

lol no thanks!

[firebug]

You have enough room out the back to do some circlework. Sammynats has a nice ring to it!