Nick's Land Rover - Series III Rebuild

I have the modified half shafts and stub axles back from Hogarth Engineering (aka Patriot roof racks).   They have been fitted to the hubs and a test fit of a wheel shows that they clear the centre cap, allowing full fitting of the wheel.  The cap shown in the photo is an old second hand [...]

I have just bought a set of 109 diesel front U-bolts for the axle conversion.  These are the longest U bolts and the three plain ones fit the 3-leaf parabolics (thinner than standard diesel multi-leaf springs) and taller spring saddles perfectly.  The taller slightly squared bolt is too short and was the wrong shape to [...]

The Discovery front axle had been reassembled.  I have attached the brake callipers but have not fitted the pads or brake pipes yet, but they’re simple jobs that won’t take much time or effort.
The Discovery callipers have twin hose configurations, while the Series Land Rovers (and Defenders) use only one hose to each front wheel.  [...]

The front axle case modifications are nearly complete.  It has taken a couple of days’ solid work to remove all the brackets associated with the coil sprung suspension and fit the custom built spring saddles and refit the bump stops at the correct orientation (the saddles are set 90 degrees to the swivel pin axis [...]

The swivels have been rebuilt with new bearings (Timken) where required.  Thankfully, the preloads were correct using just the original shims, so a lot of time was saved not having to add or remove shims to reset the correct loadings.  The hubs have also been assembled with new bearings and seals and mated to their [...]