After having had many off road trips ending up poor braking, mostly
down to the drum brakes at the rear of the 110, I decided to look into
converting the drums to discs on the rear salisbury axle. I thought
this might not be a trivial matter after looking into it. I searched
eBay looking for a disc braked rear axle, as I thought this would be
the easiest way to go about the conversion. 2nd hand disc braked
salisbury axles seemed to be vary rare.
So then I decided to
look into the possibility of some how converting to disc brakes using
defender or range rover / discovery parts. This can be done, and it
seems relatively easy to do. But then I had a stroke of luck.
A
mate (Cheers Brett) had just replaced the disc braked axle on his 110
defender because of diff failure, so I very quickly snapped up his old
axle before it went to the scrapyard.
It was now a very
trivial matter to swap over the stub axles from the disc braked to drum
braked axle, and then you just use the hubs, discs and caliper mounting
brackets from the scrap axle and they all simply bolt onto the drum
braked axle in place of the drums, drum axle hubs etc. The brake lines
needed a bit of a tweak to get them to fit. I'll probably replace them
with brake lines correct for a disc braked axle.
A very quick
and easy job, and not a costly one after everything. I put new calipers
and pads at the smae time, and it still cost me under £150.
There's a rather
good thread on LR4x4 here which is a good read.