My ute blew up and i have a few $$$ troubles, diff is on hold atm!

Oh oh oh oh oh - The fat kid up the back raises his hand!

I was in Tassie recently and saw a Mk 1 Escort with a Courier diff onboard! The owner was running standard Courier drums, which were HUGE, and told me that the spring plates did not need modifying.

I asked if he had narrowed the tubes, and he replied NO! It was a straight bolt in deal, and all he needed was the following;

1 - Courier tailshaft flange on the Escort tailshaft
2 - new brake lines
3 - modified handbrake
4 - redrilled drums for the 4 stud pattern

Here is a happy snap of the car running 17inch rims. The diff looked 'natural' under the Mk 1's bum, with no sign of extra width! Can anyone guess what engine it's running?[:u]

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I am looking into a deal like this for my Mk 1 Cortina.

Hope this helps.

Racin Jason

Looks sweet, MMMMM 13bt, but i have to run the standard small drums since ill be sitting the 12" rims back on to granny it out!

Keep this stuff comin jet, its good for all of us...

I think i might have to put my disc braked 4.1 locked hilux up for sale now? ah well

any news about the weight of the courier?

cheers, nigel

Nigel, still toying with things, havent picked up the MK2 brakes yet so ive been working on setting up the 5 speed and a few other bits and peices, you know me

Can start on the second axles till im happy with the braking setup on the 1st, so ill make a few calls and round up a MK2 to pull apart

Ive been a little busy atm so no more work done on the diff, still looking for s perfect body to drop it under, it has been trial fitted to a MK1 and fits great, still doing the brakes atm, but

I have come accross a spare complete diff the same as the one im building and are will to sell at the right price, leave questions in here please if you have any

Matt

Hate to be picky, but that looks like a natcho 13B from here [:p]

Courier diff looks like a very interesting option indeed.

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Originally posted by JET-6
[br]Ive been a little busy atm so no more work done on the diff, still looking for s perfect body to drop it under, it has been trial fitted to a MK1 and fits great, still doing the brakes atm, but

I have come accross a spare complete diff the same as the one im building and are will to sell at the right price, leave questions in here please if you have any

Matt

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check your mail regarding the diff.
Thanks
David

JET-6 Have just picked up the same diff as the one your modding atm, all your info so far has been great but you need to finish it as now I have to start thinking, its just down to what brakes to run, I was thinking of putting the front mk2 disc's onto the rear but then what about the hand brake ? I am at the stage now where I may just use the existing 10" DRUMS that came on the diff, was speaking to a brake expert today who knew of what the courier runs and he reckons that unless your doing lots (10+ Laps) of track work those drums will be fine and even then adding a bit of a scoop to the front of the drum would increase the cooling more so adding more laps before the fade sets in, as im only doing track days and hill climbs I can't see the brakes getting hot enough to warrant the complexity of the disc setup, and it may just mean that I get to using the diff a little sooner hopefully before my stocko locker collapses ! Ill let you know if I uncover anything that you haven't already.

Im just setting mine up with standard MK2 drum brakes, as i need to run 12" rims still!