Thread: S2A : dragging the brakes into the 2st Century

Originally Posted by 67hardtop

BUT, seems like the disc mounting part of the hub isn't machined "true". will remove the disc and check hub for trueness on both disc face and wheel mount face,


Cheers Rod

Hi, seems the foundry where Heystee got the rear hubs machined stuffed up. The front hubs were ok. The wheel mount and flange mount faces were machined out of true. I contacted Paul Heystee and sent him a video of the hub mounted on a disc brake machining lathe. The face was about 120th out of true. He responded by sending me a new set of rear hubs machined from a solid block of steel. They were perfect. Best of all it was at no cost to me. Great service. Paul told me that he will be machining all his hubs this way now. I have now got all bits needed for the complete conversion but have found a huge crack in my s2a's chassis while replacing the front spring bushes. Will have to weld it soon. Still having trouble getting the motivation to do it. Depression sux.

Cheers Rod

Another option is a locally designed and produced disk brake conversion made by one of our members on here - Cookey. Just bought a set off him and have driven his series 3 with the kit fitted - very nice.

If you get everything like I did, it comes with a new master cylinder (designed for disk brakes) and dual diaphragm booster mounted to a pedal assembly, new 4 pot callipers, pads, wheel bearings, rear wheel cylinders (matched so you don't lock the backs up first), calliper mounts and discs mounted to modified standard hubs.

It's a very well thought out and manufactured kit, and your dollars stay in the Country.

Only kit I know of that allows you to run standard steel LR rims, and it all bolts up to the standard swivels so parts, etc are easy to get, and depending on what parts you want, it isn't nearly as expensive as some other kits that supply new housings.

Another kit available from the UK Wild Industries

Uses Defender calipers & disks plus you have to upgrade the master cylinder.
They just supply adaptors & hubs.

Would of course need 'engineering' here.

Colin

Originally Posted by gromit

Another kit available from the UK Wild Industries

Uses Defender calipers & disks plus you have to upgrade the master cylinder.
They just supply adaptors & hubs.

Would of course need 'engineering' here.

Colin

And again, like many other kits you would have to go to a non standard rim as the standard series steel rims won't fit over deefer brakes.

Not an issue if that's something youre happy to do, but if you want the vehicle to still look standard.... Just sayin'...

Originally Posted by bacicat

And again, like many other kits you would have to go to a non standard rim as the standard series steel rims won't fit over deefer brakes.

Not an issue if that's something youre happy to do, but if you want the vehicle to still look standard.... Just sayin'...

Defender rims look so similar to series rims though......but would add to the cost of conversion.


Colin