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  1. 2nd May 2007, 04:18 PM #1
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    83 rr rear brakes to 85 county ?

    ok i have a 83 range rover and was wondering if i could fit the rear brakes disc brakes to my county.
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    NO - rangie and disco rears are smaller than defender calipers. Some people have done it but it is not a good idea.

    A few conversions have used rangie fronts, or ford cortina 2-pot (front) callipers. Otherwise you can get some proper defender callipers.
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    ok thanks . well i might scrap the thing its taking up space.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BRINDO75 View Post
    ok thanks . well i might scrap the thing its taking up space.
    If you have the rangie fronts you can fit them though - but you need to make custom brackets, and convert the calipers to single circuit.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BRINDO75 View Post
    ok thanks . well i might scrap the thing its taking up space.
    Nooo, I'll take that County off your hands.

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    As said above, the rear drums actually have more braking capacity than rangie rear discs.
    I was going to do a rear disc conversion but will now be keeping the drums. They're simple and I find them cheaper to maintain than rover discs -for some reason I always seem to end up with siezed caliper pistons which then stuffs the rotor.......- seems to happen a lot more on early rovers than any Japanese 4x4 I've ever owned. It may be something to do with the quality of the chrome on the pistons, also my 86 Hilux has rubber boots on the pistons which keeps them dry.

    Anyway, shoes and wheel cylnders are cheap and with the occasional adjustment and cleanout, the drums rarely give trouble......
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    Must admit I am a bit disappointed with the defender rear disc brakes. I picked up a cheap defender axle (until I had to do work on it then not cheap) to fit to the 110. I have a new drum axle I may try when I get some time.

    I had an 86 county with rear drums. The drums were ok once you worked out the little pitfalls. eg I agreed to oversized shoes being fitted when a new drum was only about $70 each.

    On a trip to cape york the rear brakes were a real problem as the drums and snail cam were on their limits (yes I had a full check over before leaving). I new nothing about breaks and this caused major problems on corrigations as the snail cam would untension the shoes that would flop around and do nothing - no breaks. I kept on getting them readjusted at enourmous expense without realising the problem. You live and learn.

    The landrover drum has twin snail cam adjusters which I never could adjust properly (I alway over adjusted top or bottem resulting in uneven wear) - left it to a mechanic in the end as was cheaper than breakshoes.
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