SeriousIIa Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 Hi, I've got a 92 defender with a worn front axle. Now I came across a good 2003 Front axle from a defender. Will it fit (ABS wires have to be cut) but is the hockeysticks and everything the same? And will it be stronger? hafshaft wise?? (24 spline maybe??) thx for the input! Cheers Bowy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex Member Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 The radius arms are a different width, so the mounts need modifying. It will be overall weaker, due to smaller CVs and a a tighter hub bearing spacing. What do you mean "worn"?? Everything can be fixed easily enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeriousIIa Posted March 22, 2007 Author Share Posted March 22, 2007 The radius arms are a different width, so the mounts need modifying.It will be overall weaker, due to smaller CVs and a a tighter hub bearing spacing. What do you mean "worn"?? Everything can be fixed easily enough. OKay , so not an improvement, then I will leave it alone. Mine has worn disks, swivels and a leaking diff. Less work swopping a whole axle then just all these parts...... But now I think I will swop the parts and leave the TD5 one where it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex Member Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 New seals, new brakes pads and discs and it will be like new...plus you KNOW it is all good. That 4 year old axle could start leaking tomorrow. Actually, it could be leaking already, you just can't tell because of the grease in the swivels.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 CV joints wont be any weaker, 200tdi still had 32spl inners (RTC3511 finished back in the 90/110 days, well before Defender). You will gain ventilated discs instead of solid, but lose out on the narrow bearing spacing. AS Red90 says, radius arms are a different width, but I don't think there's any reason you couldn't use the later arms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex Member Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 Are you sure.... The 32 spline CVs came out in 1994 with the 300TDI, AFAIK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LR90 Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 Might have been introduced then with the 24 spline diffs but the 200s (guess what I've got ) had the worst of both worlds with 10 spline diffs and 32spline CVs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 Are you sure....The 32 spline CVs came out in 1994 with the 300TDI, AFAIK. Absolutely, unfortunately. I know Mal Storey had provided some info about the CVs (saw it on Outerlimits), but the bit about the changeover from AEU2522s was wrong. Late Aus spec 110s (or Countys to us) also had 32spl inners on the CVs (RTC6862) and 10spl axles at the diff end. As Trev said above, worst of both worlds really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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