Jon White
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There are actually three lengths of Spring shackles.
I run 1 tonne shackles (the longest) you just need to grind the pads on the front axle tube to correct the castor angle. Not difficult to do.
On the rear I've found no ill effects from leaving the pads standard. I've run this set up now for many years.
Jon
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I believe that the front springs are the same its only the rears that are different. I still wouldn't bother - get a set of parabolics.
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Neither my wheels nor my diy shortened propshaft have been balanced and there are no ill affects!
Ditto. Never balanced a prop, nor any of the wheels on my truck.
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When mine died, I took it to bits, spent £3.50 replacing the siezed bearing that was the cause of the problem and refitted it.
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Heat.
Nuff said.
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Yes. Fit it with the turbo. I have never understood why people insist on taking it off. The plumbing really isn't that difficult.
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Series single circuit master cylinder will not do. You need as a minimum late series dual circuit master cylinder with the servo.
However I found that with disks the series servo isn't really man enough, so changed it out to an early 110 servo and pedal box, which is larger. The servo needs to be the very early, small diameter one, as the later ones are larger diameter and the series bonnet won't shut!
Series master is biased 50:50 which is what I run. Defender ones are biased a bit more towards the front, but I've always found the series one satisfactory.
If making your own conversion you need to consider brake bias when selecting callipers. This is related to the diameter (and number) of the Pistons. If you get it right, your brake brias will be spot on. Get it wrong and you'll be pissing about with bias valves etc forever more.
I worked mine out look up the size and number of Pistons front and rear in standard Range Rover callipers, and worked from there......
If you're retaining drums on the back, I can tell you that the late swb rear brake set ups bias the same as Range Rover rear callipers if that helps.
Mine works well, and locks all four wheels simultaneously. I've run it for at least 12 years now.
Jon
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Never been to Norway but have been to Sweden.
Be prepared for mile upon mile of pine trees and dead straight featureless roads.
Mossie repellant, nuclear strength, in vast quantities is required.
Cost of living is very, very high. A loaf of bread works out at close to a fiver, and two pints of beer and two glasses of wine in a bar came in at over £30!
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Well all I can say is, if you fixed all the feckin air leaks the compressor wouldn't run half as much as it does!!!!
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The two connect together with a short length of hose. This is part of the crankcase ventilation system.
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Yes it will bolt up easy. Just need to drill two holes for the lower bracket.
Be aware that they are still pretty carp. I fitted a night heater aswell in the end.
Jon
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As I've already said, and I used to have one of these.
The transfer box in the pictures has standard, un modified mounting brackets on it. They require extending by approx 4" then it will all bolt up.
You do not need to move the engine forward.
It is indeed an early Ashcroft conversion, and uses the old prop shaft flange turned round and bolted to an input gear inside the transfer box.
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That's a v8 Sherpa gearbox bolted onto a series transfer box, via one of the very early Ashcroft conversion kits.
You will need to modify the transfer box mounts, or move the crossmember in order to get them to work as the Lt77 as about 4" longer than a series gearbox.
I used to run one of these. However imho lt77 and lt230 conversion is the way to go, they are far nicer and stronger.
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It's worth less than the fuel it will cost you when you take it to weigh it in. I weighed in a 2.25 and a 2.5 a while ago. Couldn't even give them away.
Jon
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Low brake fluid warning light isn't tested on an mot. If the light isn't on all the time it won't get picked up.
Jon
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There are a number of subtle differences in both stub axles and the outer parts of the half shafts.
My guess here would be that you are running 24 spline outer shafts?
There are at least three different types of 24 spline outer shaft that I'm aware of, and you have to make sure the shaft matches the stub. The difference appears to be in the are that the bronze bush would sit as some one above said. There is a difference in the machining in this area, and what can happen is that the shafts can partially friction weld themselves to the stubs axles and burr up so that you can't get them apart. I've had this myself.
Beat them apart and you'll see what I mean.
jon
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And all those nice sharp stones that get picked up by your tyres and flung forward straight through the radiator etc....
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35mm welding earth cable is what you want, from your local welding supplies place. This the rubberised really flexible stuff that is a lot more abrasion resistant than standard cable.
Jon
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Sadly through it all, he still hasn't had time to go on a typing course.......
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http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/conductive-adhesives/1015621/
I've used this many times to repair damaged bars on heated rear windows.
Jon
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Collapsed inter cooler hose. They tend to get a blister on the inside that inflates and blocks the hose
Check them all carefully.
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Fuel consumption, fuel consumption and fuel consumption.
I had a v8 in my series that I took out to fit the 200tdi that's still in it. Figures of 14mpg versus 34mpg are a huge difference imho.
Plus reduced maintenance and increased reliability (well ok......if you take starter motors out of the equation). Plus the tdi never overheats where I always had trouble keeping the v8 cool......
Tweeking the boost and fuelling on the tdi means mine is just as quick as it ever was with a v8. The only real downside imho is that the v8 was better off road for things like steep climbs.
I wouldn't go back to a v8. However the v8 was infinitely better than both the 2.25 petrol and the 2.5 patrols that were in it before the v8. Fuel consumption for all the petrol engines was roughly the same for me.
Jon
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I posted a how to do this on the other forum donkeys years ago....
Found it....
http://www.landroveraddict.com/forums/thread.cfm?threadID=29794
jon
109" springs on a 88"
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Yes 88". I've never changed a uj in 16 years of ownership.....