rover drive vs fairey

[scott]

Thanks Scott. How fast can you go with it engaged? 60-65? Were Faireys the factory option from Land Rover?

on flat ground w/ no wind my 88 will do 65 all day. i think there might have been some sort of fancy fairey package. my 88 is a soft top equipped with fairey od and fairey free wheeling hubs

[Tim Smith]

Thanks Scott. How fast can you go with it engaged? 60-65? Were Faireys the factory option from Land Rover?

This will depend on your truck, it's overall condition and set up. For me, I have been known to wind out 4th to 60 mph or so before engaging my roverdrive. I'm not advocating this behavior but just saying that it's a little hard to give you an exact top speed with or without an overdrive because there are a lot of factors to think about.

Either way, having an overdrive will certainly help reduce your RPM's for highway runs.

[TedW]

I can run at 60 mph all day long (hills excepted, of course).

70 mph no problemo with a tail wind.

My Fairey gets leaks from the transfer case so it's always overfilled. Almost 20 years on and no problems (and no noise).

[Wander]

I've not seen a fairy OD listed on here so is this an ebay item? If there are some good sources please let me know. My IIa has a strong engine but no OD and I'd like to take it some longer trips but I don't want to push it at high rpms for that long.

[Jim-ME]

They are listed on Ebay from time to time. If you are looking for one they show up on EbayUK quite frequently and there is currently on on Ebay US that is from Germany.
Jim

[I Leak Oil]

You can get a Fairey from RDS, as well as parts for them. Can you even get a Roverdrive yet? There was a long period of time when you couldn't get a unit. How about parts for them?

[Jim-ME]

According to Ray Wood the newest generation Roverdrives are available. I did just buy a 2nd generation new one from Ray last week. I'm still of the opinion that they use GM parts but I hope I won't have to find out for quite a while.
Jim

[I Leak Oil]

That's good to hear Jim. I think it uses some GM parts but not all. If you can get one new you can probably get parts as easily.

Now the Rocky Mountain Spring bushings I ordered back in mid July still have yet to make their way to my door, so my theory of ease of getting parts may be flawed....

[robert wood]

ROVERDRIVES

Some clarification seems needed.

The ROVERDRIVE uses one component from a GM truck transmission - it is the main internal gear on the epicyclic assembly. These things can transmit up to 400 HP so chances of needing one from GM are small. In designing the ROVERDRIVE I also borrowed from Land Rover parts bin and our units use Rover synchromesh assemblies.

We started making ROVERDRIVES eight years ago and there has never been a time when we could not supply any spare part from stock. Not that we are ever going to get rich selling parts because there is virtually no demand for spares.

There has been no shortage of ROVERDRIVES for the last year or more although we ship on a 'first come first served' basis and you may sometimes have to wait a few days to get one.

Although both located here in Vancouver ROVERDRIVE GEAR CORPORATION and ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPARES are two separate businesses no longer associated with each other. Jermy Pinney purchased the ROCKY MOUNTAIN business from me a year ago and he continues to sell suspension, door tops etc. under the RM brand.

Ray Wood
Roverdrive Gear Corporation

[I Leak Oil]

My apologies Ray, my memory and info are obviously dated! Now, the last time I spoke with you, you were working on an over/under drive. Any new details on that? (This might be dated too but I hope not)

[robert wood]

The UD/OD is in limbo until we switch to a revised main housing casting which we have not started to tool yet as we have a good number of the existing housings in stock. Probably about twelve months away unless sales pick up. Ray

[adkrover]

Ray,

Just throwing this on the wall to see if it sticks but I think if you did offer an over/under drive, that would encourage a lot of us to shelve our existing units in favor of an O/U drive. Waiting until you run out of existing cases might not be the best decision but I'm sure there could be other factors involved. Just wanted to let you know that I would be happy to shelve my new Fairey I purchased 3 years ago from RDS (I was wanting a Roverdrive but you said you couldn't supply it at the time due to certain "circumstances").

If you build it, they will come (with cash in hand).

To the original poster - I have a new Fairey from RDS and while it does work, it really raises the noise level in the cab so I would try the Roverdrive. Also, if you buy a Roverdrive, that will get us all one case closer to seeing Ray's new creation.

[I Leak Oil]

Ray,
Just throwing this on the wall to see if it sticks but I think if you did offer an over/under drive, that would encourage a lot of us to shelve our existing units in favor of an O/U drive.

That's what I've been waiting for. Glad they're back in production. I bought my Fairey new from AB in 1994. It whined right out of the box.