Changing axles...

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ashdog

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Righty - I've decided that I need to take the plunge and replace the rear axle on my '87 90 so I can finally get disc brakes all round. Having done a bit of a search through these forums it looks like the best way to go is to get a complete disco2 rear axle and plonk it straight on there ...

However... after doing a bit of glooglage, it looks like the disco hubs have a different PCD to the old 90 hubs. The 90 hubs are shown as 5x165 and disco2 as 5x120. Obviously I need to have the same size wheels all round, so does this mean I have to replace the front axle as well?! How tricky is it to fit a front disco2 axle onto a 90? or disco2 hubs onto the 90 front axle? Anyone done it?

Fanx guys n gals.
 
ashdog said:
Righty - I've decided that I need to take the plunge and replace the rear axle on my '87 90 so I can finally get disc brakes all round. Having done a bit of a search through these forums it looks like the best way to go is to get a complete disco2 rear axle and plonk it straight on there ...

However... after doing a bit of glooglage, it looks like the disco hubs have a different PCD to the old 90 hubs. The 90 hubs are shown as 5x165 and disco2 as 5x120. Obviously I need to have the same size wheels all round, so does this mean I have to replace the front axle as well?! How tricky is it to fit a front disco2 axle onto a 90? or disco2 hubs onto the 90 front axle? Anyone done it?

Fanx guys n gals.
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Disco 1 axles will fit an 1989 lr90 This is quiet a common swap and should fit straight in. I talking to a chap yesterday near Selby W Yorks and he was in the middle of building a 90 for a customer using Disco 1 front and rear axles.
 
Cheers Redhand.. maybe that's the way forward then.

Shame though - I was toying with the idea of getting some of them disco2 shiny shoes... but they won't fit on the disco1 hubs.

Ho hum
 
Yep I'm looking into getting a disco1 rear axle ... might have to wait a few weeks at the mo as I'm about to move house (close to Salisbury Plain, so bring on the extended playtimes! Woot! :D) so it'll have to wait a bit now...

BUT it will give me a chance to do that A-frame balljoint while it's all in bits.

ALSO - found some wheel adapters that allow disco1s (and 90 front axles) to take disco2 wheels... thinking of giving the old girl an overhaul and getting her tarted up a bit.

and then I might do the 90... Ah ha ha ha aha ha ha ha ha ha ahaaa! :rolleyes:
 
i was chatting to somebody recently about changing to discs all round and he said it isnt such a good idea because drums work better when wet, and also drums have a self-servo action. as it is, your average landy wont need the extra stopping power discs would provide, unless you tow a lot i guess.
 
Disco 1 axles will fit an 1989 lr90
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They int cheap tho Simpsons quoted me 300 quid for the axle then extra for the hubs an callipers!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A local Landy breakers wanted less an said they'd get back to me when one came in I'm still waiting 18 months later.
 
chris_mack said:
i was chatting to somebody recently about changing to discs all round and he said it isnt such a good idea because drums work better when wet, and also drums have a self-servo action. as it is, your average landy wont need the extra stopping power discs would provide, unless you tow a lot i guess.
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He's full of **** and it's been forced out of his mouth under the pressure. you need all the stopping power ya can get.
 
Hey an another thing, I've just replaced the front discs and pads rear drums pistons an shoes an put new flexi hoses on. An I don't think it warrants discs on the back, the only reason would be cos there easier to clean the ****e out of after a spot of offroading, an even then I don't realy see the point unless your considerably richer than wot I am.
 
I got drums on the back of me 110 they work fine. The thing that would stop me better would be road tyres instead of mud jobbies. IMO the standard set up of discs front and drums rear is more than adequate if I had more powerful brakes I'd just spend more time with the wheels locked up.
 
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