LandieMan
29th September 2009, 06:06 PM
Hi ya'll,
The Gemmer (6 bolt) power steering box in my 1986 County is leaking (surprise surprise) and has just failed a warrant so the truck is now off the road until it's fixed. It's been fixed twice before (several years ago) so I'm thinking rather than reconditioning it yet again, I'll just score a later model Adwest (4 bolt) from a Discovery and swap them. A couple of searches via google etc tells me that it appears doable as the fittings are the same (I believe the 3 bolt Adwest is a little harder as it's imperial threaded).
The problem is, the Adwest 4 bolt looks to sit taller above the chassis rail than the Gemmer and there doesn't seem to be lot of room between it and the timing cover of the 300Tdi that I've retrofitted into my truck (to replace the original V8).
There's no guarantee I got 300Tdi in exactly the same place/height as would be fitted by the factory but I can't imagine it's that far out.
Does anyone have any experiences swapping these boxes and/or could tell me whether I am likely to have a problem fitting it? Maybe even if someone even could take a photo of an Adwest fitting in a Defender with a 300Tdi maybe I could eyeball what problems I might have with clearance.
Cheers, LandieMan
The Gemmer (6 bolt) power steering box in my 1986 County is leaking (surprise surprise) and has just failed a warrant so the truck is now off the road until it's fixed. It's been fixed twice before (several years ago) so I'm thinking rather than reconditioning it yet again, I'll just score a later model Adwest (4 bolt) from a Discovery and swap them. A couple of searches via google etc tells me that it appears doable as the fittings are the same (I believe the 3 bolt Adwest is a little harder as it's imperial threaded).
The problem is, the Adwest 4 bolt looks to sit taller above the chassis rail than the Gemmer and there doesn't seem to be lot of room between it and the timing cover of the 300Tdi that I've retrofitted into my truck (to replace the original V8).
There's no guarantee I got 300Tdi in exactly the same place/height as would be fitted by the factory but I can't imagine it's that far out.
Does anyone have any experiences swapping these boxes and/or could tell me whether I am likely to have a problem fitting it? Maybe even if someone even could take a photo of an Adwest fitting in a Defender with a 300Tdi maybe I could eyeball what problems I might have with clearance.
Cheers, LandieMan