aaronledwidge

Bill do you want to pop some pice up of your setup? It sounds interesting and would remove a lot of the speculation. In relation to your failure mode it's not one that I have heard of before.

I'm not aware of the IH scout route? What does that entail.

Interesting stuff this, I'm running 1144s on my track car and there not a bad pad. I've not noticed any crumbling mind and they have taken some abuse. I doubt ill go for posh pads because of the nature of what there going through. There only going to get contaminated etc.

Ahthatsfair enough mate I'd imagine you would have a bloody capable braking setup then. I don't need anything too overkill just brakes that will be reasonable when income out of water.

Ah cool nice and tidy job they have done there, did you reset the castor on the front? Or is that dine with the coil mountings?

Wow sounds like a few really novel approaches there. I was tempted to mate disco flanges but didn't think I would be able to jig them up well enough, any pics of both setups? Aaron

Interesting that, I had a box that violently released but it was chewed teeth, my reverse had broken up. If its not gentle it won't be detent issues.

Is it violent or gentle. It could be it needs new detention springs

Cheers guys, i had another play tonight and it seems to be set up ok. Ill try and get it an mot so fingers crossed she will get through. it seemed to go from having a really low bite to a really high one so maybe the calipers were playing silly buggers. Gremlin your post was a big help to be honest, always nice to see other peoples takes on things.

Ah bummer on the hoses mate. What about g clamping both rear cylinders shut, that would let you know if its a front brake related issue.

Hey mate just read through this? If you wanna have a look at a p38 steering conversion i have one on my series and am only in Hertfordshire. I have just popped a thread up on how I did it as I thought it may help people. Aaron

Hey daan, I do keep myself busy but No as I said at the top I did this last Christmas ha ha. it was on sxoc and landy zone so I thought it might help out some members. I think I did this over 4 or 5 days but that was a lot of fiddling in the dark as I hadn't seen much on how people did the conversion. Most of this year has been spent rebuilding my old 200sx from a shell up which means the old landy has been a little neglected. http://www.sxoc.com/vbb/showthread.php?546228-Seriously-Mint-S13-project-34k That's the build thread for it but its pretty long now ha ha. Aaron

The pump was a nice easy mount as it just went back in the mounting point on the TDi and i had a cutom High pressure pipe made up and Nuneaton Hose and Fittings, a pretty nice place from what I found out. No idea if i overpaid for it :wack: as I have no idea what it should cost. the return feed i made up with some banjo fittings off ebay and some braided fuel pipe. this was then sealed up with dowty seals and looked like this when it was all done. IMAG1614 by darransandwich, on Flickr IMAG1621 by darransandwich, on Flickr The most exciting thing about this was I now was able to fill the system and test the steering. So i filled the system and fired her up, below is a little video and i am dead chuffed, it could do with a bit of a bleed but its already so much lighter that the series ever was. I have quite a few more jobs to do before ill be back on the road but this was a great place to stop as it was the 23rd of december by the time i got here :wack: Still had my gifts to buy and the missus may have hung me if i had missed christmas to build my landy. Here is a vid of the system all fired up and its pretty powerful it makes the body twist on the leaf springs at full lock and is nice and easy to turn so im dead chuffed. http://www.flickr.com/photos/14144290@N04/8312702050/ I took some pocs on full lock too as i have read loads about people saying the box may reduce clearance but i seem to have bags of room. IMAG1645 by darransandwich, on Flickr IMAG1646 by darransandwich, on Flickr Cheers Mark, thats my mates farm saying that its not local to me ha ha, 70 miles away. as for the MOT that was also my understanding so im going to make up a new bar as soon as i can. hopefully the tester will be nice if i havn't managed in time but the bar was a get me home job as i had no idea how long it would be until it was fitted. The lock is set there as i have a much bigger set of wheels that i offroad with. there isnt masses more room before the leaf but more than i have at the moment, ill get me some thinner off road tyres when i have the cash. So the last few pics from the build are here. So the first thing i did was make up a new battery tray, This was made out of a little angle iron and some threaded bar; IMAG1649 by darransandwich, on Flickr then with the battery attached IMAG1652 by darransandwich, on Flickr So once this was done i had to run all the pipes and adapt the wings to accept the steering rods. the wings were cut around the box as below. IMAG1656 by darransandwich, on Flickr The hoses were p clipped to the chassis across the front cross member IMAG1655 by darransandwich, on Flickr then once it was all done i had a little pose with it. IMAG1665 by darransandwich, on Flickr

next task is to make up the steering arms and find out how long they need to be. for the moment im going to join the series arm to the p38 one, ill get a custom one made up when i can find a supplier so the gap was measured up. and the two tubs cut to length with a 10mm gap in between them. this was to make space fro a joining piece to be turned up out of some solid bar as the two tubes were different in diameter. IMAG1618 by darransandwich, on Flickr. then we test fitted the pieces together. IMAG1609 by darransandwich, on Flickr We were happy with the lengt of the tube and allignment was well within adjustment so the pieces were welded together. IMAG1639 by darransandwich, on Flickr then the bar was at least in one piece and looked like this, please excuse the stick welds. i bloody ran out of mig gas ha ha. these were courtessy of my mate mike as his stick welding is far better than mine. You can also see in the background my wing has became a make shift table. I think mike wants the landy in long term :wack: IMAG1630 by darransandwich, on Flickr IMAG1610 by darransandwich, on Flickr all in and test fitted. were goign to strengthen up the bar by milling into the solid bar and welding it up for added strength. So once the bar was all welded up and tested again i first checked to see if i could hit lock on both sides. if this hadnt worked i would have needed to source a longer pitman arm i guess but thankfully all was ok and there is still a fair bit of era movement so the bar was removed and put in the milling machine. IMAG1631 by darransandwich, on Flickr we then milled the channels through the tube and into the bar so that there was roughly a third of each material showing. This would give us a nice area to weld into and IMAG1634 by darransandwich, on Flickr these were welded up and ground flat and then the whole bar was fitted and painted black, hopefully this should eb a nice strong bar and get my by long enough to get a custom rod making up. If anyone could recomend a place or has a pair of lh and right hand ball joint taps that would be great.

I then set about sorting the mounting bracket for the box, i went out and bought some 6mm plate and then marked and drilled some 13mm holes in it, this gave a little clearance for the bolts and fitted pretty well to be honest. IMAG1593 by darransandwich, on Flickr I then welded the plate to the chassis and fitted a bit of 6mm plate to the top of the chassis to space out the crush tube. This was the plate all mounted up. IMAG1600 by darransandwich, on Flickr Then i mounted on the box to see how it would look. To be honest i was pretty chuffed with that. IMAG1594 by darransandwich, on Flickr Once this was done i counted the turns to find the neutral position of the box( this was surprisingly off center) and test fitted the wheel for clearance. I have loads IMAG1598 by darransandwich, on Flickr SO next is mounting the collumn and shortening the intermediate steering shaft. For mounting the collumn we found a bit of box section, drilled and bolted it up to the shaft. here is a pic of it clamped on to test the alignment. IMAG1604 by darransandwich, on Flickr then wleded up, drilled and painted. IMAG1615 by darransandwich, on Flickr so with the box and collum mounted i had to make up the intermediat shaft, the steering box had a different spline to the collumn i had so i split the two UJ's and then made one with the correct spline. first i ground away most of the material around th bearing cup IMAG1555 by darransandwich, on Flickr Then i split the last bit with some gentle persuasion with a hammer. which left the uj free from the shaft and intact IMAG1559 by darransandwich, on Flickr I then pressed the bearings out of the p38 uj and fitted the two together. IMAG1561 by darransandwich, on Flickr With all the bits ready to fit together i mocked up the fitting and then cut the intermediat shaft to length, this then gave me the steering mechanics in one piece for the first time. IMAG1608 by darransandwich, on Flickr to be honest i am pretty chuffed with the way it looks, seems pretty smart to me, the