Last year i fitted terrafirma 2" suspension lift kit medium duty and larger tyres to my discovery
since then i have gone through UJ's and a rubber doughnut on the prop shafts. Steering is a little heavier with the caster angle change with the lift.
I have cured the doughnut wear by lengthening the A frame by 9mm which rotated the rear axle and brought the pinion shaft in line with the rear prop shaft.
For the front axle instead of buying cranked radius arms and bushes to bring the caster back in to speck and then fitting a Double Cardan prop shaft. My thoughts are to strip the front axle remove the swivel ball housings as well then cut of the swivel house mountings at each end of the axle
This will allow me to rotate the axle so the front pinion shaft lines up parallel with the front prop shaft and the weld the swivel housing axle mounts back on to the axle with the correct castor.I will also reposition the radius arm mounts and spring mounts on the axle. After all this i will be able to use my original radius arms no more exaggerated wear on the UJ's and correct steering castor. I have already changed the angle of the rear and front radius arm chassis mounts so there is no need for cranked arms.
My thoughts are that i just use standard replacement parts when the wear in the future
Does any one no of going down this route before?

You can get castor corrected swivels which will do the same thing. Much less work!

Off the shelf, I think around £200 ish

vilguy said:

You can get castor corrected swivels which will do the same thing. Much less work!

Off the shelf, I think around £200 ish

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Was looking at these myself.

£263 inc VAT for the full kit.

http://www.paddockspares.com/castor-correction-swivel-ball-kit-defender-1994-1998.html

With a double Cardon prop, there’s really no need.

Just open yourself up to major **** if one of your modifications causes you to crash