High Speed Stalwart

[Ron King]

The owner of that Stalwart said some thing of interest to me.
The high speeds wouldnt be possible without the drive disconnects as this reduces the drag for advailible power.
I personally found steering the Stalwart is not a issuse if you know what to expect and the disconnects would help greatly with this.
The gearing increase was of 40% increase on the transfercase reduction gears.
Being a MK 1 and a bit lighter help the performance of that stalwart.
That gearing increase I have calulated reduces 1st gear to about 66 to 1 and 5th gear to 8 to 1 .
I found a stalwart off road with standard 103 to 1 gearing 1st gear is still a bit too tall.
66 to 1 would very greatly reduce off road performance or the ability to climb a steep river bank to get out of the water.
For on road work it is perfect.
The Stalwart very badly needs a 2 speed transfercase and due to the Stalwarts unusual drive train it is impossible to do.
The drive disconnects is a straight forward job to do.