Well everyone, seeing as how ive got an ffr perentie, ARN 49 209, now, i should do some posting here. Pic of vehicle affectionatly known as the "Bush Pig", some Adelaidians have seen it getting around, including me. Long story short, it came up on scumtree for sale for a very reasonable price, so i bought it along with a 109 stage one 3.9 traytop.
I now know why it was so cheap. It runs great but dont go coz the centre diff was in a cardboard box in the back. No prob i thought. Turns out the PO changed the gbox in Feb this year and fitted an early V8 range rover gbox to it. As a result i have no PTO to drive the front winch, and no manual diff lock as he must have left them on the box he pulled out thinking he wont need them. I do need them. Gonna try find out what happened to the original box if he answers the bloody phone. Grr.
Ok so today on my perentie i refitted the master cylinder reservoir that was not fitted coz the retainer bolt and seal was missing. Parts not available seperatly so i got the bolt from an old holden master cyl. Perfect. Filled with dot3 brake fluid. Pumped the pedal...felt weird. There was air in the system but still felt strange. So i bled the brakes. All good no air now but still felt strange. So i adjusted the rear shoes. Right side good. Left side no good, the rear brake adjuster was spinning around and around and doing nothing. So off with the wheel and drum. Wow. The rear sboe wasnt located on the bottom of the backing plate and so the shoe was still holding the wheel cylinder together but was actually doing no braking at all. So i refitted the shoe correctly and proceeded to check the adjuster was doing its job. Nope. So took the shoes off and noticed a bolt holding the snail cam onto the adjuster bolt. Loose. Tightened it up. Must be some army fix i spose. Refitted the shoes and drum and adjusted. All good. Refitted the wheel and tested the brakes. Pedal feels just like it should. Now just gotta sort the centre diff out.
Bought 4 counter sunk allen head bolts to hold the two halves of the centre diff housing together coz the PO just drilled them out coz he didnt have an allen key to fit. D'OH.. So i assembled the housing just to see how it goes tohether. Ive got a couple spacers that go somewhere but im not sure where. I need a proper diagram of an early rangey lt95 lsd centre diff. Will look around tonight on the web.
Chuffed i got the brakes sorted.
Cheers Rod
Ps LRRSA Christmas doo tonight and the last meeting of the year.
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