Me and my front axle

[jamesledingham]

A kind chap on here has put me in touch with someone who's got an axle for £90!

It's a Disco 1 axle so I believe I need different radius arms? (Mine's a 1990 90 TD)

On a scale of 1 to 10, how difficult is an axle swap, including bleeding the brakes etc?

Does anyone local to Evesham/Tewkesbury fancy helping/showing me the way for a few beers?

[Budgie]

Can you not just unbolt the calipers from the old axle and swap them onto the new axle without disconnecting the brake lines?
Or has the new axle got vented discs and twin line calipers?

[jamesledingham]

Maybe...I don't kow. I don't have a clue what I'm doing!!






(There, I admitted it!)

[Budgie]

You want to make sure you have the correct axle, one has vented discs & one has solid. If you get the one with the vented, and you've got solids on the 90, then you'll need to change brake master cylinder and other parts as the vented brake calipers have a twin feed into them, not the single flexy that the solid discs have.  

Apart from that it should be a simple unbolt the old and bolt the new back in. Just make a note of the age of Disco the axle has come from as there are differences between them when it cames to getting replacement parts!

[Budgie]

As for the radius arms, if you have disc brakes on the rear axle and the chassis number from LA930456 then it's got the same width radius arms as the Disco.
If yours is rear drum brakes and upto chassis number KA930455 then you'll need the wider radius arms.
I found these the other day if you do need them: http://www.mailorder4x4.com/acatalog/copy_of_Bargin_Basement.html (about half way down the page   )

[markyb]

can you not swap over the old brake discs from the 90 axle if it is a vented disc axle?

remove caliper and clamp and fit back to the disco axle.

i presume removing the swivel bolts that hold the clamp on will mean loosing some grease but would that effect the swivel preload?

sorry for jumping in thought its relavant and i will also know for the future

[gt.jacko]

you can if you want just swap the whole hub assembly just unbolt from the axle casing and swap into your origional axle casing assumong said casing is ok and you have the same number of splines on your half shafts. I know this works as I,ve just done it. Also your defender calipers will fit straight on  as long as you have solid discs, the disco had two feeds to the caliper even if it had solid discs on.
Hope that helps
                       gary....

[Budgie]

the disco had two feeds to the caliper even if it had solid discs on.

My 300 TDi has solid discs and only one feed into each front caliper, infact the front calipers are the same part number as the Defender ones.  

[tomcat]

hi.
    :shock:  don't forget to check the diff ratio make sure its the same as the rear..
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