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Vehicle & Technical => Series Land Rovers => Topic started by: muddy_90 on December 03, 2006, 19:01:46

Title: disc brakes
Post by: muddy_90 on December 03, 2006, 19:01:46

Had nothing to do today so i thought about trying to make a disc brake convertion.

(http://members.mud-club.com/galleryimages/ae215575dca98cbf77e314f22810be43.JPG)

just need to make up a capiler mount.

Title: disc brakes
Post by: ian_s on December 03, 2006, 19:40:18

so how have you actually done it?
is it just the hub carrier and disk off a later vehicle?

Title: disc brakes
Post by: muddy_90 on December 03, 2006, 19:47:25

its a rangie rear hub and disc on a series stub axle, just swapped the bearings from the series hub to the rangie but need to get an oil seal to going in the back of the hub also u'll need 24 spline diff and front shafts and 90 flanges

Title: disc brakes
Post by: TEMPL4R on December 03, 2006, 21:04:26

Have you tried putting the wheel on and seeing how much room there is for the caliper?

Chris

Title: disc brakes
Post by: blackbob on December 04, 2006, 17:09:47

Quote from: "TEMPL4R"

Have you tried putting the wheel on and seeing how much room there is for the caliper?

Chris

i run swb rims on the animal so the calliper will clear the wheel
wot r u making the calliper brackets out of cos they take loads of stress torque ect

Title: disc brakes
Post by: muddy_90 on December 04, 2006, 22:03:36

going to make it out of 15mm steel or cut the mount off a set of rangie axles ive got in the gardan and cast weld them to the series swivel housing

Title: disc brakes
Post by: muddy_90 on December 05, 2006, 19:14:15

few pics of the clearance of the disc and wheel.
(http://members.mud-club.com/galleryimages/35c62cbc185b32cbc7c6edd918d8362f.JPG)

(http://members.mud-club.com/galleryimages/136d6e1126ef8e7a06ef7fe18f3998e3.JPG)

Title: disc brakes
Post by: mark.yellow.series.3 on December 06, 2006, 18:58:16

keep us posted, i would like to do this to my series.

Title: disc brakes
Post by: blackbob on December 07, 2006, 07:47:39

think it would be easyer to adapt some mounts onto the swivel pin bolts rather than welding to the housing

Title: disc brakes
Post by: mark.yellow.series.3 on December 08, 2006, 22:22:00

Quote from: "blackbob"

think it would be easyer to adapt some mounts onto the swivel pin bolts rather than welding to the housing

i agree, welding onto cast is a very specialised job, requiring a furnace to bring the cast upto 500oC or so then welded with iron powder rods or something similar, then the cast must be cooled slowley over about 12 hours or so, iam not an expert but there is a complicated procedure.

best use good 'ol' nuts and bolts.

Title: disc brakes
Post by: steve_h on January 04, 2007, 11:54:52

Hi,

Any progress on fitting the calipers yet, or are we still recovering from the new year celebrations?

Cheers,

Steve.

Title: disc brakes
Post by: Range Rover Blues on January 04, 2007, 15:43:01

IIRC welding on any casting is an MOT fail anyway.

SOrry if this has been covered before but will the 6 bolt RRC swivel fit the series axles?

Title: discs
Post by: ed209 on January 08, 2007, 20:37:26

Well matey if you can find a way you can do mine fee negoitable!!

Title: disc brakes
Post by: mark.yellow.series.3 on June 07, 2007, 23:07:41

hows the conversion going :?:  :D






yours,   waiting with great interest :D

Title: disc brakes
Post by: Rich_P on June 08, 2007, 20:13:58

..Mark, he scrapped the whole LR.  So as far as I'm aware, he's stopped the 'project'.

Title: disc brakes
Post by: muddy_90 on June 08, 2007, 20:26:04

yeah but ive started another, ive been playing wiv a few ideas but work has taken over at the moment so dont much time to do it now

Title: hmmmmm
Post by: nakedbarra on June 09, 2007, 16:29:35

Rocky Mountain sell kits to do this bolt right on and go.
Andrew

Title: Re: hmmmmm
Post by: mark.yellow.series.3 on June 09, 2007, 16:58:23

Quote from: "nakedbarra"

Rocky Mountain sell kits to do this bolt right on and go.
Andrew

iam far to tight fisted to buy an off the shelf kit :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:


how much is it btw  :lol: