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Na mate, thats my dad. He does alot of the work on the rover too. I require his help a lot, but do manage a heap of it on my own.Slunnie wrote:At 15 that is excellent! Well done mate.
I always thought that you were a hell of a lot older. This is who I thought you were
We've done a lot of the research to get er done. The nissan arms bolt straight in (thankfully). The way its sitting there is with standard nissan springs. We are going to get some longer springs for it though as it doesnt look like it will fit 35's with out alot of rubbing, and there is barely 2" of uptravel before the bump stop hits the errrm..... bump stop pad.merv wrote:well done, not something I would have tackled at 15. What have you got left to do? Brake lines and draglink? What about pinion flange to tailshaft?
Lokking at the pic of the Patrol diff it looks like you used the Nissan lower arms, is that the case? and if so did they just bolt into the Disco mounts?
those things are bloody heavy!!! Thankfully i have turoa and his dad they are the brains of my err operation 
.......will keep you guys updated..... 
The nissan diffs have a setup rather like the rear rovers ones. They have two flexis from the calipers to some steel brake lines. The steel brake lines then meet in the middle of the diff to a splitter, the splitter has a single flexi attached to it. The only thing is trying to connect all 4 lines together to atatch to the flexi, or getting new flexis made and converting the rover to single front lines and connect long flexis straight to the caliper. If that makes senceBush65 wrote:What is with the discussion of duel front brake lines on a disco?
Rangies have duel front brake lines, but my 300Tdi disco I, only has single front brake lines.
.Thanks mate, good info there. I might suggest to him to leave it as is, and make an adjustible panhard so if its a major problem we can lift it later. It saves lifting the rear because its pretty much level with 35's on the back. Thanks for the info on the brakes aswell. Ill have a looksee tommorow at them.Reddo wrote:Early D1s have dual front lines - I know cause we had to mod them/remove one each side to fit the Defender calipers. Worse than that, the early ones have four ports off the master cylinder so you have to blank off the ones you don't want, or just run one side back on itself to close it off. You can also swap later model master cylinders in, eg., later D1 or Defender which have 2 ports - front and rear.
Good work on the diff swap. PS don't worry about the up travel too much - they only have about 3 inches up travel standard anyway, especially when the springs sag, but they always have heaps of drop
Did the conversion affect the pedal travel by much?KiwiBacon wrote:Nice work.
As for the brakes, it's easy to convert the double front line rover to a single line per side.
You want one port off the master cylinder to the front and one to the back. The extra banjo used to mount two lines to each port just unscrews and the single lines screw right in.
I swapped my rangie to single line fronts and used defender calipers (25% bigger pistons). Stops really well now.
Holy crap you guys are doing some awesome work. I'm still marvelling at the LC/Hilux hybrid axle that you made for the IIa!Turoa wrote:Na mate, thats my dad. He does alot of the work on the rover too. I require his help a lot, but do manage a heap of it on my own.Slunnie wrote:At 15 that is excellent! Well done mate.
I always thought that you were a hell of a lot older. This is who I thought you were
Pedal travel was affected only a fraction, about the same as you'd get from having one small air bubble in a normal setup.Slunnie wrote: Did the conversion affect the pedal travel by much?
Where do the 2 lines split to. Do the calipers have pistons on either side of the rotor or is it just a line per pot? Seems a weird way to do things.
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