Rear disc brake conversion kit?

[kellymoe]

Is there anyone who sells a rear disc brake conversion kit for the Defender here in the US? I lost my brakes coming out of the White Mountains last year:Wow1: no fun. Also looking for a domestic X-brake company or at least someone who imports it. I have looked around but so far no dice.

Oh wait, Keith............doesnt he sell a kit for the conversion?

 

[Rovertrader]

check with Keith, or substitute a D-I rear axle as they are plentiful, inexpensive, and easily up to the task

 

[kellymoe]

The rear axle on my 130 is a Salisbury rear end with coils that are much larger, wider, extra HD coils. I had a D1 up until last year in addition to my 130, it was pretty amazing how much larger the 130 coils were compared to even the D1 extra HD coils. I have a email into Keith, he does some fine work and has helped me out in the past hopefully he can point me in the right direction.

BTW some nice looking trucks you have sold there at The Rover Barn.

check with Keith, or substitute a D-I rear axle as they are plentiful, inexpensive, and easily up to the task

 

[Antichrist]

I'm assuming you read this thread:
http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=137412

and this one:
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/technical-chatter/50181-salisbury-disc-brake-conversion.html

You'll need two of these
http://www.lrseries.com/shop/product/listing/14700/2985/9/FTC3306-HD-REAR-AXLE-CALIPER-MOUNTING.html

Ah! I knew I'd seen an actual step by step somewhere!
I'd seen it several years ago, and found it again linked from the aulro thread.
http://forums.lr4x4.com/index.php?showtopic=11685

 

[Maryland 110]

The rear axle on my 130 is a Salisbury rear end with coils that are much larger, wider, extra HD coils. I had a D1 up until last year in addition to my 130, it was pretty amazing how much larger the 130 coils were compared to even the D1 extra HD coils. I have a email into Keith, he does some fine work and has helped me out in the past hopefully he can point me in the right direction.

BTW some nice looking trucks you have sold there at The Rover Barn.

Kevin,
Switching the rear springs for an axle swap is as simple as unbolting the lower spring cup off of the axles and bolting the larger on. Takes 5 mins with an impact. I recently swapped a salisbury out for a rrc lwb rear axle. Very straight forward swap if you don't have any bolts rusted to the inner metal sleeve in the bushings. Keith was offering the rrc rear machined brackets the rest of the stuff you can pick up on discoweb from the usual suspects cheaply enough.
My 130 has inner and outer rear coils-yours has a single spring ?

 

[UnfrozenCaveman]

+1 on Keith - the other one - and I seem to recall George (RDS) having Salisbury rear disc bits too.

KAA

 

[Rovertrader]

As Doug said, simply change the bottom perch. Also, do a little research and ask Keith, but my $$ would be to do the swap to D-I axle and upgrade shafts to Keith's, and I believe the strength over the Sals is tremendous, makes upgrades to lockers cheap and easy. Always many ways to skin a cat, but look at the whole picture- both planned and unplanned.
Also, thanks for the kind words- loved my 130, and it had the inner/outer spring setup on a Rover axle, aka D-I -the factory setup at the time.

 

[kellymoe]

You assume way to much from me. It's been well over a year since I have been on Pirate.
Thanks those are great links.

I'm assuming you read this thread:
http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=137412

and this one:
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/technical-chatter/50181-salisbury-disc-brake-conversion.html

You'll need two of these
http://www.lrseries.com/shop/product/listing/14700/2985/9/FTC3306-HD-REAR-AXLE-CALIPER-MOUNTING.html

Ah! I knew I'd seen an actual step by step somewhere!
I'd seen it several years ago, and found it again linked from the aulro thread.
http://forums.lr4x4.com/index.php?showtopic=11685

 

[LandyAndy]

Is there anyone who sells a rear disc brake conversion kit for the Defender here in the US? I lost my brakes coming out of the White Mountains last year:Wow1: no fun. Also looking for a domestic X-brake company or at least someone who imports it. I have looked around but so far no dice.

Oh wait, Keith............doesnt he sell a kit for the conversion?

Justin at Luck8 carries the XEng gear... see him for an X-Brake.

 

[kellymoe]

I looked through Lucky8's website last night because I saw that they carried them but didn't find it on their website, it's a little cluttered and difficult to navigate, I'll give him a call.

Justin at Luck8 carries the XEng gear... see him for an X-Brake.

 

[mongosd2]

Here's the part number for the caliper mounting bracket: FTC3306, you can get a pair of them from Craddocks.com in the UK for the price of ONE here from the usual suspects...

The only thing is that the mounting the bracket needs to be machined down about .120 to fit the disco or rrc calipers...

We just did this...

 

[R_Lefebvre]

I looked through Lucky8's website last night because I saw that they carried them but didn't find it on their website, it's a little cluttered and difficult to navigate, I'll give him a call.

Always call him. He can get just about anything, it's not all on the website by any stretch.

 

[Antichrist]

Here's the part number for the caliper mounting bracket: FTC3306, you can get a pair of them from Craddocks.com in the UK for the price of ONE here from the usual suspects...

Yeah, that's what I linked to, only from lrseries.

The only thing is that the mounting the bracket needs to be machined down about .120 to fit the disco or rrc calipers...

We just did this...

Interesting, the guy who did it here, http://forums.lr4x4.com/index.php?showtopic=11685 actually added a spacer. But maybe he was using different calipers. I haven't gone back and read it in detail again.

 

[mongosd2]

yep...about .120 need to be machined off...

 

[Maryland 110]

yep...about .120 need to be machined off...

Several of the write ups I have seen were using 87-89 Range Rover rear caliper brackets (close to free and readily available these days).