Disc brakes

Can anybody tell me can I fit 90 or 110 axel ends so I can fit the disc brakes.
Or is there any Santana series front axels for sale with disc brakes already fitted for sale?

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If you want disc breaks you have two options:

1. Buy the conversion kit from Rocky Mountain (just under £1k)
Rocky Mountain Spares UK > Improved Engineered Parts and Accessories for your Land Rover

2. Buy an old discovery axle, get an angle grinder and welder and cut off the coil suspension, weld on the leaf suspension, correct the castor angle and attach (sure there is more to it than that, but, that is the general jist)

caster angle will want to be 3 degrees that is with lower pin been further forward than top,with no caster angle a line between centers of pins would be straight up 90 degrees to road ,with 3 degree castor angle line would be leaning back 3 degrees for vertical above top pin

jamesmartin said:

caster angle will want to be 3 degrees that is with lower pin been further forward than top,with no caster angle a line between centers of pins would be straight up 90 degrees to road ,with 3 degree castor angle line would be leaning back 3 degrees for vertical above top pin

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So what do you actually adjust to get the 3 degrees different angle?

Logic would say to me (but from memory not what i've read... not that i've looked into it much recently, despite getting an axle) that you would just weld the leaf mounts further round to make the 3 degrees difference, but, i seem to remember something about welding up holes and re drilling them???

Maybe i need to do some more reading and find some pictures

you wouldnt weld holes and redrill when you can weld spring mount in the right place

logic dictates then! Thanks (I was confusing myself with the weld up holes and re-drill off-set thing)

Would it make more sense to throw leaf springs out of the picture and weld upper coil spring carriers to the correct spot on the frame? and then having a complete defender-like axle, brake, and suppension. I think it would be just as much work but with out the camber angle problem, right?

seems a lot of money to pay for disc brakes, would it not just be easier to buy a defender?? what would the benefits be other than been able to stop quicker, but at the speed the series goes would it be justified??? not sure i would pay let alone attempt this one..

the only positive of this is to avoid the headache of the drum brakes....which is due to a lack of being comfortable with the drum system.... But if your gonna take a defender brake system, Then Take The Coil Springs Too! dont replace an old system with a new one and throw away a chance to improve two systems at the sametime.

And don't forget the vehicle will have been extensively modified so will need re-registering and probably Q plating.

Cnew74 said:

Would it make more sense to throw leaf springs out of the picture and weld upper coil spring carriers to the correct spot on the frame? and then having a complete defender-like axle, brake, and suppension. I think it would be just as much work but with out the camber angle problem, right?

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No - you would loose your tax exemption for the landy that way as you will have modified the chassis.

Disco axles are the answer

Anyone got any idea's what the ratio's are in the disco axles?

3.54 in that diff flange has to turn 3.54 times for one rotation of wheel

i personally wouldn't bother going down the whole disc brake route, unless i had higher ratio diffs, and bigger and more powerful engine, other than that, drum brakes work how they should on the standard 2.25 engine, plus no worry with tax exemtion ect.