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Range Rover Blues:
I'd agree, green stuff are good because they are easy to clean up after, but standard pads are far from rubbish.  On my LSE I've got EBC grovved disks and they are mint, but as he said above all they'll do off road is drag crud into the braking surface and render the brakes useless.

Good, clean, newish disks and EBC pads (given they cost the same as Ferodo pads ie £25 each end).

Sabo:
Hi

Got a chance of a late 1994 disc rear sals axle from 200tdi.  Would the ratio be the same and would it drop straight in?
All being that the wife would let me have it!

Dave

Eeyore:
The 200tdi is liable to have drum brakes. It was the subesquent 300tdi that had disks - howeverm these started production in 1994.

Worth checking before parting with your hard-earned.

But yeah, if it's Salsibury it'll just sway straight out with the old 'un.

Range Rover Blues:
I think the reaosn the rar alxe is a Salisbury is that wheen fully loaded you are far more likely to wave a front wheel int he air than the back, also when loaded the amount of grip there will be much higher, so worst case scenario on a standard car is loads of grip at the back due to the weight, 2wd due to being cross axled with difflock then doing something stupid and 'pop' goes the axle.

They must have fitted them for a reason and it certainly wasn't cost.

As for vented disks, well the 110 had the same vented disk as RRC but as said bigger callipers which help reduce pedal effort (making up for the bigger tyres on the 110), AFAIK the callipers are interchangeable

One option would be keep you existing callipers if they are ok, then fit a spacer kit and vented disks.  Vented allow you to use slightly softer pads which will give you better braking, like EBS (who recomend vented sdisks with Green Stuff).

And if you drive the truck round unloaded then you probably have some braking capicity on the front that's unused, I'd expect the back end to lock up first :-k

Eeyore:

--- Quote from: Range Rover Blues on August 22, 2008, 17:38:16 ---They must have fitted them for a reason and it certainly wasn't cost.

--- End quote ---

Basically it boils down to history. Series vehicles had 'em fitted, but they ran in RWD most of the time, so the back axle took all the load. When they went for permanent 4wd, a thinner back axle was seen as a 'retrograde' step, and consequently the Salisbury was kept - despite the fact it offered mechanically little advantage and cost more.

Well, traditions are made to be broken, it just LR about 15 years to break this 'un!  :lol:

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