Vehicle & Technical > Series Land Rovers

Brakes

<< < (2/2)

ian_s:
before i swapped to a 200tdi, i had a mechanical vacuum pump from a peugeot. worked a lot better than the standard system.

12LDA28B:
In a standard SWB 2.25 diesel you have all the stopping power you need if your brakes are adjusted and working properly, assuming you don't need the extra efort that a servo will provide due to some disability?

Just make sure everything is adjusted and working as it should and you'll save youerself a lot of hassle and money.

Batfink82:
during our current restoration (LWB 2.25 diesel series 3) my brother and i fitted a driven vacuum pump from a taxi. we used a military double pulley to drive it. we removed the butterfly valve and it seems to work really well providing alot of assistance to the pedal operation. the brakes are good enough to stand it on its nose. but that might be down to the complete set of new pipe work, shoes and drums.

Devon-Rover:
Sounds like to me you would benefit from the twin leading shoes setup of a LWB, find a LWB axle and swap it over. If you did find a 6 pot version with the wider shoes then that comes with a servo too. Yours being a 67 might be lucky enough to have the modifield wing to allow the fitment of a servo. (from 67 onwards with the intro of the 6 they all had the same wings to allow this fitment be it a SWB or LWB)
The FC's though had a remote servo so it might be possible to find one of those but they are rare.
Any remote servo can do (just check how much force it applies) and being the diesel you still can get the butterfly valve that goes on the inlet manifold.

Of course you could look at why the brakes are not efficient as they should be able to pull you up nice and quickly. My last MOT showed that the front brakes were up around the 280 290 mark IIRC. my mums pug is only are the 330. I along side the rest of the rebuild last year replaced everything in the braking system down to remaking all my own piping.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[*] Previous page