Miken

New Member

• Dec 15, 2013

• #1

So my defender was originally a 200Tdi (1994) but has had the normal bitsa changes over its life (300tdi engine change and it has disk brake rear axel) I now have a list of things that I want to upgrade/improve the first being to re bush the suspension and possibly change the shocks

How do you tell if you have a metric or imperial axel ? And is there some way to check (measure) if it's had a suspension lift or not.

thanks in advance
Miken

 

edessex

New Member

• Dec 15, 2013

• #2

To the best of my knowledge ALL Defender parts would be metric...

Does it have coded springs, lifting blocks, longer shock mounts, longer bump stops, etc?

 

jamesmartin

Well-Known Member

• Dec 15, 2013

• #3

Miken said:

So my defender was originally a 200Tdi (1994) but has had the normal bitsa changes over its life (300tdi engine change and it has disk brake rear axel) I now have a list of things that I want to upgrade/improve the first being to re bush the suspension and possibly change the shocks

How do you tell if you have a metric or imperial axel ? And is there some way to check (measure) if it's had a suspension lift or not.

thanks in advance
Miken

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diff securing bolts will be imperial as are prop bolts (3/8 unf )but other axle bolts will be metric ,shown by the fact drive member bolt heads are 17mm , imperial and metric axles on defenders and discos usually refers to caliper securing bolts bihex head metric ,hex head imperial which is only important in which caliper fits

 

warrior

Well-Known Member

• Dec 15, 2013

• #4

Mines a 94, its a genuine 300 tdi with disc brakes, is your a very late 200 or an early 300

 

Miken

New Member

• Dec 16, 2013

• #5

It's a late 200tdi that now has a 300tdi engine