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Post a pic of the brake MC, that will tell if your metal lines are metric threaded gland nuts or not.Originally Posted by travascus
I have a vague recollection that all the RRC callipers have a metric thread for the brake hose at the lower end, but the upper end of the hoses can be metric or imperial because there is a difference in parts catalogues for metric or imperial brake hoses.
You need to get professional advice with this.
cheers, DL
Fossicker
SupporterThe metric/imperial difference for the brakes is easiest to tell from the MC. They changed the mounting bolt orientation between the two so that they cannot be mixed up. The earlier imperial master cylinder has the bolts running vertical, the later metric MC has them horizontal. The changeover was in the early 80's but I suspect there was some bleed over between them based on supplier availability and the delay in shipping things to Australia.
Fossicker
Huge weekend. Moved the project to a mates place (legend has a hoist) and spend a full day installing the Disco 1 front axle assembly, reusing the struts and springs that were already inplace along with the rod panhard rod, tie rod and the drag link. Actually pleased with how straight forward this was; a little Land Rover LEGO?! Don't want to speak too soon and put a moz on this project. Having fun.
If anyone is keen, I will offer the old front and rear axle assemblies for sale; not sure what a reasonable asking price for these should be, any advice here would be appreicated. I was thinking $750 each? They actually have new brake assemblies and at the least the rear one has been gone through, but the front is questionable. I will pressure wash the old front axle and see how it looks.
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Fossicker
Back at again this last weekend and got the Disco 1 rear axle reassembled with new bearings and seals and then installed in the Rangie. Again, not pushing my luck here, but this is definitely some Land Rover Lego, super grateful.
Pics from the reassembly;
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Pics from the installation;
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Not sure any of these are super helpful, when I'm working I'm focused on "gettin' 'er done" and forget to take many pictures.
One thing I neglected to photograph was the work I did relocating the RHS shock hanger from rear mounted to front. This went pretty well and I'm happy with the location and reuse of the existing mount. I was considering upgrading to later mounts that use a nut and washer, but it occured to me that it might be possible to put at thread on the end of the existing mounts — has anyone done that (rather than the agricultural washer / split pin style)?
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