sockets and spanners sizes

Hey guys! Does anyone have a list of sockets and spanner sizes needed to dismantle a defender 90?

thanks

10mm,13mm, 17mm and more I think but definitely those 3

Disc cutter and a large hammer is all you need.

all of them

a rotary spanner

a hammer

nut splitter

irwin bolt grips

a bigger hammer

Mostly metric sizes, though there are a few imperial ones here and there (mostly stuff carried over through the years). 8-20mm plus the equivalent imperial sizes should cover the majority of things. Wheel nuts are a 27mm.

blue beasty said:

Disc cutter and a large hammer is all you need.

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Not all, but you will definitely need them!
+ vast supplies of releasing oil.

Removing the doors is much easier with a PZ4 bit in a 3/8 drive ratchet.

Depends on who else has added in random sizes and head types

I'd just buy a good set of spanners and sockets - I changed my axle last week and by the end of the project I had loads of sockets and spanners out, 8, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 19, 22, 24, 34... deep sockets, normal sockets, combinations of extension bars, 3/8 to 1/2 drive and vice-versa etc...

You really need a decent set of tools to do what you suggest including cutting tools, vice grips etc.

I use a set of 8-19mm ring spanners and have open-enders in the 20-30 sizes.

I use 1/4, 3/8 and 1/2 sockets, in the 3/8 and 1/2 drive I have normal and deep. Hex and bi-hex are also essential, I have a good selection of extension bars, enough I can create an extension about 4 foot long if needed, getting the wings off needs at least 15-20inches of extension. You would also benefit from some big philips driver bits, ones that go on a 1/2 drive are great as you can lean in hard and ratchet them out.

My first kit should have been over £100 and it had most of the sockets and ratchets in it, think I paid £50 on a good sale. It's taken me a long time to get to where I am now, but think of the money you are saving doing all the work, I think you ought to bite the bullet and get a good selection of kit. Sounds like you are doing a fairly big project for your first (I assume this since no tools).

Halfords have got some deals on their socket & spanner sets just now.

Get a good set of hex sockets instead of that halfords mostly bihex ****e. ( i have a set but almost always go to my bahco 1/2 hex set as bihex and a bit of rust equals rounted bolts.. Of course certain landy bolts need a bihex - like brakes

This last weekend I used 14mm - drive shaft bolts, 22mm - something-or-other, 20mm, 30mm, 27mm, there's also a daft biggy - that hub nut..... I've got a big grey tube thing for that... the type of socket that you have to push a steel bar through.... don't know the name.

I'd get some decent big'uns, and then a normal halfords "large" socket set. the seperate biguns would be 27mm, 30mm, 32mm, 34mm, 36mm I guess.... I can't remember if I've used all of those yet, but they're in my standard kit!

Also, the longest 1/2" drive breaker bar you can afford (I've got one about 60cm long and one somewhere around a metre long.... the longest one gets most use).

Remember you need 2 of some things.... 14mm spanners for example!

decent pliers for pulling out all the sodding split pins...... hammer for smashing the broken end of the split pins flat once you've stupidly snapped them off and need to get a socket over the crown nut.....

ball joint splitter

oh... I remembered there's a wierd one.... try and find out the size of the massive bolts which attach the A-frame to the chassis... 2 on either side.... they're big, and an odd size.... I think 30mm might be the closest metric, but there's too much play.

try and make sure you have a few deep sockets, and in the bigger sizes (the most difficult nuts to undo generally) get the 6 walled sockets, not the frilly edged ones..... I know nothing about proper curvey wall-drive types... someone else will no doubt weigh in. Personally I make sure I have the bigger sized sockets in the black impact type.... stronger..... means you can put some scaffold pole on the end of your breaker bar and not ruin the socket.

I find a prop shaft removal tool handy

Ratchet spanners have been a God send for stripping and rebuilding.
as said get a decent set
long bars and and grinder
hub spanner, and a big hammer

Handy but by no means essential wattfield.

I got one but did for years with a 9/16th spanner.

thanks for the comments guys! I have a load of tools but was just going to make a set up so its at hand! made some progress today but most of the bolts I had to cut off!

Big breaker bar definitely makes things easier. It's not so much applying more torque as applying less force to get the same torque- less likely to slip and round off a bolt that way. Mine lives in the back of the landy to double up as a wheel nut wrench.

wattfield said:

I find a prop shaft removal tool handy

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One of the best things I ever bought for the disco, stick it on the end of a battery impact driver can whip a prop off easy

Hub nuts are 52mm. I got a socket so I can get some leverage on them. The most useful thing when I was doing my suspension (other than the Milwaukee impact wrench) was a ring spanner with 24mm on one end (quite a few suspension bolts with M16 shanks) and 30mm on the other (radius arm nuts and rear ball joint nut). Otherwise, just the usual socket set stuff. If other people have been adding things to it there could be all shapes and sizes. There are some little tiny ones on the bodywork too.

top drive said:

Handy but by no means essential wattfield.

I got one but did for years with a 9/16th spanner.

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Me too, but it does make it easier.