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topless matt:
I thought that was only on rangerovers where the shockers were on for and aft of the axle
clbarclay:
The trailing arm bushes appear to be the same part numbers for series 1 discoveries and defenders.
I have seen slight variations in the profile of the bracket on the axle which the trailing arm mounts to, but apart from the possiblity of some brakets not providing enough cleerance for the tube trailing arms I've not found anything that would prevent the tube and bar trailing arms being interchaneable.
Disco-Ron:
To make things alittle clearer for the OP, i'd like to clarify a few things in one reply,
Discovery axles have the SAME diff ratio as defenders,
Discovery axles have the same width radius arm mounts as defenders.
Only range rover axles have diferent shock mounts,
it doesn't matter if the discovery axle is 10 or 24 spline, it'll fit,
What DOES matter is that you don;t get a 300 disco axle, as they have a three bolt fixing to the prop coupling, not a four bolt as per the defender.
So, to summarise, if you use a 200 shaped discovery axle, it will fit, without drama......... simple.
Range Rover Blues:
Yeap, that's it in a nutshell.
There are 4 types of trailing arms, the solid ones which are poo, fitted to 91 onwards RRC and Disco as a cost saving IIRC, then the tubular types fitted to early RRC with imperial thread which is rubbish, best avoided though they fit the same bushes. The later tubular type which are the only ones you can buy new I'm told and finaly the Heavy Duty Defender ones which were extra thick tubular types.
Plus the wide array of after market and cranked types.
J.D.:
--- Quote from: Disco-Ron on April 06, 2009, 22:24:32 ---
What DOES matter is that you don;t get a 300 disco axle, as they have a three bolt fixing to the prop coupling, not a four bolt as per the defender.
--- End quote ---
But if you get a 4 bolt flnage with a little bit of agro, it will fit on. I fit 300 axles to Defenders before, and you hgave to take the diff out and swap the flanges over, which is a PITA, but can be done with an angle grinder and big hammer (yes really)!.
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