Attachment 128204Attachment 128205Attachment 128206Attachment 128207Attachment 128204Attachment 128205Attachment 128206Attachment 128207Hopefully I have added some pictures of a disc brake conversion that I have drawn up for a local company (to me in Loughborough England anyway !!)
(I don't know how strict your moderator is on mentioning companies names but I know this company send parcels of 101 spares to Australia quite frequently so some of your members may know of them.)
This conversion uses standard Landrover calipers and fit inside standard 16" steel rim, the radio body with the red 'jerry cans' is on 17" alloys and the light grey is on 16" alloys, the discs are 15 thk and machined in the correct grade of cast iron for brake discs, the double ended wheel studs are made in a heat treated nickel chromium molybdenum steel lengthened by 10mm to the suit alloy wheels.
Using the wheel stud back face on the hub as a mounting face for the spacer ring has it's problems, they look machined and you would assume that they are flat and level with each other, but they aren't, it took us a couple of attempts to machine these faces in a lathe to get the spacer ring running true, we found the best way was to use a spare stub shaft and bearings as a mandrel in a lathe, to mount the hub on, DTI checking as we went and then machined these faces flat to get a true running face for the spacer ring.
The conversions haven't improved the braking effect much, but they help to prevent brake fade and pull up square under hard braking, the radio body with the red 'jerry cans' towing a trailer can exceed 5 tons gross. Aftermarket brake pads such as EBC's are being trialled.
The existing 101 servo is 8" dia fitting a 9" servo would increase the servo assistance by 25+% this is something to be looked at.
Also looking at a power steering ram/electric pump set up similar to the Haystee but cheaper !!
Tried not to ramble too much, thanks for reading if you got this far !!
Cheers
H
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