JeffR

Odd thing is, it didn't make any nasty noises!

As the other side was fine (I know, unbelievable, but true) i"m calling it a Tur....

Back story, did a favour for a young kid last year and gave him an old intercooler for his Golf as it was belching black smoke and gutless. So he turns up today (in an even bigger cloud of black smoke) with a posh aftermarket jobbie and a request to help him put it in. So had a look at old intercooler, its fine, checks pipe work, they're fine. Bungs it on vcds and no boost pressure. Wonders if actuator has broke or circlip come off , so whips the turbo off to find: Explains that its kinda terminal, for a turbo. "Can you weld it ?", well sorry like, but I had to go make a cup of tea cos I was absolutely p!$$ing myself. Before anyone asks, he's a good kid, works hard for next to nothing and it's his first car which he dotes on. Luckily I had an old turbo from a scrapper that will do the job till he gets a chra. Bless him, "can you weld it..." He'd driven it nearly 20 miles, who says miracles don't happen!

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I fitted 17 inch predators by winding steel wheel nuts the studs then using the dimpled alloy wheel nuts from a Disco 1 to hold the wheel in place. The dimpled nuts are completely threaded for just this purpose, standard alloy nuts are only partly threaded and may not clamp the wheel.

They'd probably badge engineer poundshop AA's and put em in a fancy box made of self destructing plastic

You hit the nail squarely on the head ... Thing is they don't actually look heavy, I mean its only a couple of effing tubes and a diff, oh and some hubs n gubbins...must be getting old. Had no problem getting it, and a back axle, in the back of a passat estate when I collected them from a mate a few years back. Now that was an interesting drive back from scarborough... never had steering that light

Stephen, the Beaulie Autojumble takes two days to wander around and is great for stocking up with consumables, tools and spares, you also get access to the motor museum. Consider a visit to be reverse aversion therapy. Take a trolley, cos last time I was there I ended up carrying a trolley jack round all day...

In that case you really need to avoid the Beaulie Autojumble... Or take a really big vehicle, not the wife though, cos well, they spot very expensive stuff. My wife fell in love with a glass elephant one year, twas a Lalique Bugatti hood ornament ...

My wife will not allow me to visit the local recycling centre on my own, sadly I tend to return with more junk stuff than I was supposed to dispose of. Last year , when I was a bit poorly, I missed (?) 20 8x4 sheets of checker plate that a local events company had dumped..... all the guy who is uncharge of the tip wanted for them was a couple of bags of decent cat food for the strays that live there...

Stephen, why is it a trip to Machine Mart always results in one buying more than what one went in for....

My mistake!, I have a Clarke set in the same blue box , but its metric! Really must wear specs more often. I think a trip to machine mart is on the cards....Got a die stock off amazon, but I suspect the threaded holes in the steering box could do with a clean, cheers Stephen

Tweaked my back juggling the axle , so pain stopped plays for a day or two. Garden now looks like a demented breakers yard: On a side note, the wife got got excited when she thought I'd bought her some nice lingerie, The credit card statement said Muff Cover, she was somewhat disappointed when a radiator muff turned up....

Thanks, got that set, but only takes 1 inch dies, the 7/16 die I have is 33mm diameter. I really would love to know where I got it from (possibly a job lot from and auto jumble). Hopefully Amazon should deliver one today...

Just to add insult to injury, some person of doubtful parentage had fitted the steering box with bolts about three feet long , packed out with wheel nuts, so orders some brand spanking new 10.9 M12 x 100 bolts which arrive in a lovely box. Excitedly dances out to fit em, complete with lock washers/tabs only to find the steering box has 7/16 unf bolts.................Never mind finds a suitable die (God know where I acquired that from, cos I don't) to extend the thread on the 6 inch bolts and shorten them to 4 inches or so only to find the effing die don't fit my die stock (err useless bit of info, dies don't work with mole grips, just thought I'd mention that). Try finding a die stock that'll take 30mm dies in Northumberland on a Saturday if you have a hour or two to spare. I give in, defeated, beaten, oh and one of the pet rats shuffled off its mortal coil the day after £174 worth of surgery....

So been measuring front discs on both axles, on both axles the solid front discs measure out as 298x14mm. Spacing on calliper bolts is also identical, so other than radius arms, there doesn't appear to be any difference between the 1985 Defender axle and the 1998 single line Disco axle, which is very useful to know. Whilst the callipers look identical, they definitely aint! The Discos used 41.2mm diameter pistons, whilst the Defenders use 45.9mm pistons... Now the question is , are the calliper fixing bolt spacing the same, watch this space.... The bolt spacing is also the same on the callipers, but the thread is different. on the 85 axle its a coarse thread on the disco axle its a fine thread, disco calliper bolts fit defender callipers. nice thing is callipers from old axle look like scrap, but pistons are nice and clean and not rusty - hour with a wire brush and a rattle can and they'll look good as newish

about to get both axles and brakes next to each other then we'll see whats going on, there aint no such as a simple job with landrovers.

Had a root about in the spares boxes (OK the pile of stuff the wife calls junk that takes up half the garage) and the callipers than came with the axle were ...... single line. Seized to buggery but probably fixable

Got GKNs on both my defenders. The one on the V8 put up with a lot of abuse (wife driving....)but has lasted. The one on the Tdi has put up with way more abuse than it was designed for. That one's done approx 100k miles and is fine. Very useful in low range

about to find out....

Is it OK to collect on Sunday ? If so PM a postcode/address, cheers

They'll be fine. Was considering shimming out the old ones with bits of plate, then sensibility prevailed!

My wally trolley, it couldn't cope with and axle and gravel....

Whereabouts in Lancs are you, could nip down sunday

Axle was sans arms when I got it, so ..... Callipers on old axle look fine. Useless bit of info for everyone, axles is effing heavy to be shifting about on ones onesome, don't ask me how `i found that out.