Defender 110 running gear refurb.

Thanks all, back at it tomorrow.. I do have a RFBFH in reserve to attack the ball joint with. Thanks for the tip on the breather bolt, it did not look like yellow metal but I'll pretend it is.

The diff looks and feels ok, I will get a gauge on it when it comes back from the blasters, but if it is near tolerance I would really rather not take it apart just yet. Here in Germany specialist tools and parts are hard to come by, and for now it would be good to get it through its TüV (MOT) test and into service. If it is way out of tolerance then all bets are off, I will strip it and rebuild.

A set of halfshafts and drive flanges from Ashcrofts are 950 pounds! But I am trying to avoid swapping them for something worse than the ones that have come out.. the 50 bucks a pop sets from a lot of parts dealers don't seem that appealing.

Anyone found a happy medium?

Thanks Steve!

steve2286w said:

A frame Ball joint

Gents, do i need any special tools or support to change my A frame upper ball joint, it looks fairly simple, but I'll be doing it on the driveway just laid under the car, So do I need to support anything, before something drops on my head. ( 1986 defender 90)

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This might help

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Those halfshafts look fine both ends not burred over apart from outside of circlip groove

So, I brought out the big guns on the A frame ball joint. Ding ding, round 1 to me.



Then pushed out the bushed from radius arms. I got to over 10 tonnes on some of them.

A few thing of interest on the suspension support brackets.



The swivel housing bolts were pretty tough to get out but they all did. Nothing snapped.



I then had a session with some chain blocks..



So, barring 1 or 2 items to be cleaned and inspected from this pile, I am ready to go get blasted.

I am happy with the braking power of the drum brakes. If they are adjusted well and the shoes are in good nick they work fine. I lose traction before I get to full braking power, particularly when not loaded and the truck is light. I think this would be the same with disks on the rear.

What I would like is ABS on the front, but from my brief research it doesn't seem to be a thing. Anyone have any experience of converting the front end of an early 90's 200TDi to ABS?

lupus said:

I am happy with the braking power of the drum brakes. If they are adjusted well and the shoes are in good nick they work fine. I lose traction before I get to full braking power, particularly when not loaded and the truck is light. I think this would be the same with disks on the rear.

What I would like is ABS on the front, but from my brief research it doesn't seem to be a thing. Anyone have any experience of converting the front end of an early 90's 200TDi to ABS?

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I was chatting to a 300 disco ower the other day, whose build had factory abs.

He was complaining about the discos control modules (which I think do the abs as well, right?)

I just mention this out of caution. I think I'd rather do it from scratch rather than fit shifty old landrover parts!

Another option, which isn't abs at all, is to fit the abs servo and the lof conversion thing. Again it's not abs in the slightest but it does make it easier to lock up the brakes....