What happened to your Discovery 2 today?

Hi mate. Just made it out of 18mm form ply (plastic backing) and 10mm form ply beneath that. Used some old angle alloy I had lying about and some alloy box I had here also. Lots of stainless screws countwrsunk into alloy. And stainless threaded rod. Cheers

My last van storage battery was a Full River 120,,,

I had a bit more room,, [wink11]

Funnily enough they call it a Dc120 but it's a 112ah. Cheers

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Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

hey Fluids,,
what was the pedal feel like?
did the pads work ok cold?
squeal much?

68K??
either you are very sympathetic to your brakes,
or those pads are made out of used grader blades... :Thump:

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Pedal feels great !! Cold pads ... dunno (new pads). 1st 2 attempts at braking (I was bedding the pads in) were like having no brakes, but once the rotors had a bit of heat in them the next 10 white knuckle stops from 60-70 were bloody brilliant ... managed to get the ABS to kick in once, and one of the tyres (brand new) had no coloured bands or nipple thingys visible after about 8km of driving. Dig in the brake pedal and it feels like it's gonna stand on its nose !

No squeal ... No Amigos [thumbsupbig]

Yeah, I consider myself to have a high level of mechanical sympathy, but these pads were metallic types ... made out of a mixture of used grader blades & unobtainium, and the rotors reflect that. It braked average and faded rather easily. I reckon you'd need 3x sets of rotors to 1x set of pads !! ... now it stops like a race car [bigwhistle]

Best upgrade I've done to the D2. Especially since most of its remaining life will be towing the kamper.

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Originally Posted by Fluids

Pedal feels great !! Cold pads ... dunno (new pads). 1st 2 attempts at braking (I was bedding the pads in) were like having no brakes, but once the rotors had a bit of heat in them the next 10 white knuckle stops from 60-70 were bloody brilliant ... managed to get the ABS to kick in once, and one of the tyres (brand new) had no coloured bands or nipple thingys visible after about 8km of driving. Dig in the brake pedal and it feels like it's gonna stand on its nose !

No squeal ... No Amigos [thumbsupbig]

Yeah, I consider myself to have a high level of mechanical sympathy, but these pads were metallic types ... made out of a mixture of used grader blades & unobtainium, and the rotors reflect that. It braked average and faded rather easily. I reckon you'd need 3x sets of rotors to 1x set of pads !! ... now it stops like a race car [bigwhistle]

Best upgrade I've done to the D2. Especially since most of its remaining life will be towing the kamper.

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So another happy camper[thumbsupbig]
Good to hear mate[biggrin]

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Originally Posted by Fluids

There 2x 10mm threads in the inner skin in that position. Make a bracket to mount the SC-80 to then attach the bracket to the existing threads. I made a "Z" style bracket and mounted my USI-160 in that position.

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Photos?

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Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

or those pads are made out of used grader blades... :Thump:

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Metallic pads ? [bigwhistle]

I may have found it's replacement...

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Originally Posted by Disco Muppet

I may have found it's replacement...

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https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...017/05/607.jpg

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...017/05/606.jpg

Nah needs more heaps sick