If you want disc breaks you have two options:
1. Buy the conversion kit from Rocky Mountain (just under £1k)
Rocky Mountain Spares UK > Improved Engineered Parts and Accessories for your Land Rover
2. Buy an old discovery axle, get an angle grinder and welder and cut off the coil suspension, weld on the leaf suspension, correct the castor angle and attach (sure there is more to it than that, but, that is the general jist)
1. Buy the conversion kit from Rocky Mountain (just under £1k)
Rocky Mountain Spares UK > Improved Engineered Parts and Accessories for your Land Rover
2. Buy an old discovery axle, get an angle grinder and welder and cut off the coil suspension, weld on the leaf suspension, correct the castor angle and attach (sure there is more to it than that, but, that is the general jist)
jamesmartin
Well-Known Member
caster angle will want to be 3 degrees that is with lower pin been further forward than top,with no caster angle a line between centers of pins would be straight up 90 degrees to road ,with 3 degree castor angle line would be leaning back 3 degrees for vertical above top pin
So what do you actually adjust to get the 3 degrees different angle?
Logic would say to me (but from memory not what i've read... not that i've looked into it much recently, despite getting an axle) that you would just weld the leaf mounts further round to make the 3 degrees difference, but, i seem to remember something about welding up holes and re drilling them???
Maybe i need to do some more reading and find some pictures
jamesmartin
Well-Known Member
you wouldnt weld holes and redrill when you can weld spring mount in the right place
Cnew74
New Member
Would it make more sense to throw leaf springs out of the picture and weld upper coil spring carriers to the correct spot on the frame? and then having a complete defender-like axle, brake, and suppension. I think it would be just as much work but with out the camber angle problem, right?
Cnew74
New Member
the only positive of this is to avoid the headache of the drum brakes....which is due to a lack of being comfortable with the drum system.... But if your gonna take a defender brake system, Then Take The Coil Springs Too! dont replace an old system with a new one and throw away a chance to improve two systems at the sametime.
No - you would loose your tax exemption for the landy that way as you will have modified the chassis.
pornstarmax
Active Member
Anyone got any idea's what the ratio's are in the disco axles?
jamesmartin
Well-Known Member
3.54 in that diff flange has to turn 3.54 times for one rotation of wheel
4wheeldrive
New Member
i personally wouldn't bother going down the whole disc brake route, unless i had higher ratio diffs, and bigger and more powerful engine, other than that, drum brakes work how they should on the standard 2.25 engine, plus no worry with tax exemtion ect.
