Radius arm Trailing Arm

[gnasha]

finally getting round to rebuilding the 90 now we got most of the parts we need got R/R axel's but i need to no will the R/R Radius arms and Trailing Arms fit ok on the 90 chassis

[smo]

Depends on the age of the chassis, essentially the arms are the same, but there are wide and narrow versions

[muddysteve]

if the 90 is pre 1995 it will need the thinner front arms, but if your fitting rangie axles then the arms that fit the axle is what you need. chassis end of the arms is the same

rears are the same (rangerover cds tube ones are stronger)

[clbarclay]

I take it the 90 is the 2.5 N/A in your sig so 1980's vintage and will narrow radius arms. The radius arms on RRC changed from narrow like on early 90's to wide in 1986 at the same time as they went EFI and changed to both dampers on the rear axle leaning forwards. The 90 changed to wide arms with the introduction of the 300TDi.

It was only in the 1990's that the went from tube trailing arms to the weaker solid arms so your 90 ones should be the tube type.

[gnasha]

the chassis ithe 90 came with had more holes than a fish net so got another of ebay that one came with R/R axel's but no arm's and n/s/f hub missing then a pair of R/R axel's with 2" lift springs and shocks and arm's come up on ebay so got them going to put the front axel on as the hub is not the same the one on the chassis has 7 bolt's to the axel on the pair i just got it has 6 bolts

[clbarclay]

If memory serves then the 6 bolt axles are pre 86 and should take narrow radius arms and the 7 bolt axles are certainly post 86 and therefore takes wide radius arms.


The brackets on the axle which the narrow radius arms fit into are 48mm wide and the brackets for wide radius arms are 54mm (also the width of the bushes).

[Range Rover Blues]

There are 4 types of rear arms about, the thin crudy useless things fitted in the 90's as a cost reduction, the tubular type fitted from about 1986 when they went over to M20 rather than the finer imperial thread and on some 110s a very heavy guage tubular type.  Oh and of course the early pre-EFi RRC type which you don't want as the threads are a weak-point.

The only ones available now are the tubular M20 type which is fine as they are what you want.