I bought some new brake drums from Paddocks and they are nice looking rough finished metal i am assuming they will need painted or should they be left bare?

Shouldn't there be some lock tab type double ended washers on the bolts on the back plate?

Front and rear axles finally finished (well apart from 1 castellated nut which is on order) very satisfying. Thanks to everyone's help

Cheers James

Thanks James, looks like it locates behind the snail cam and onto the pin on the shoe?

Evening all, just rebuilding the brakes on the series 3 (apologies if this has been covered in lots of other threads I did have a quick look) I am confident with lower spring, retaining plate and which is the leading shoe etc, however I would like to double check the top spring location does it...

Turns out I don't need any of that, they only need the felt washer a penny washer and the nut and split pin, phoned Paddocks they were very helpful.

I realise that with the nut but if you look at the pictures you can see the new shiny nut is considerably bigger than the old one next to it, which made me wonder if Paddocks sent me all of the items over sized

Sorry for not reading your post properly oxides (hope I don't do that on my exam on Monday!) I see you don't have any O-ring, I think this is probably what mine should be like.

Every thing about my axles so far has been of the early type for a series 3, does your O-ring fill the groove on the drive flange completely or does it sit round the shaft? And how thick (roughly) is your washer?

Still rebuilding the front axle for the series 3 and i am at the point were i have bolted on the drive flange, now according to the manual i need to slip an O-ring to it then a Spiralox ring then a spacer ring and then finally the castellated nut and split pin and hub cab as in the diagram below...

bigger the problem bigger the hammer!

sorry for hijacking your post, i was just checking in case once i get her finished and take her off road i dont destroy it straight away!

How important are the axle straps? Before I stripped my Landy mine where no where to be seen and it never seemed to cause any problems, what would happen if they weren't fitted?

Whoops...... it might of helped if i had taken the old distance pieces and bearing inner race off of the half shaft................ i was so worried i had made a mistake putting the hub etc back together i didn't even look at the half shaft. Straight to the bottom of the class................:(

Thanks for the advice, hopefully I will manage to spend a bit of time on it tomorrow and I will work through it step by step. It's a great feeling when your managing to get everything thing together for yourself but always worried I will miss something important!

No I have only 1, I have copied that diagram exactly, I am wondering if the series 3 doesn't need it? It doesn't look like it really needs it. Perhaps the diagram is for the 2A?

I am in the process of rebuilding the front axle fitting all bearings etc went ok and they all seem to spin freely and look as they should, however when i try to refit the new swivel housing and half shaft into the axle the half shaft doesn't seem to want to slide far enough in, i followed the...

in some of your first pictures back in 2013 i noticed you used Brit part shock absorbers, are they ok quality wise? I will be needing (hopefully) to order all my new suspension items in a week or so and was wondering about them as they are £20 cheaper each than any other.

My rear floor only has one small hole in the middle I was thinking of cutting out a new floor from chequar plate and riveting it over the old floor (I thought the chequered plate would help the dogs get a grip in the back) is there any reason why I shouldn't leave the old floor in place under...