land rover axles

[suzukivit1]

im in the process of swapping them on to my vitara, way i look at it there on a truck that weighs a good bit more and has more power and some of the guys in our club are sore on them week in week out yes there not as strong as yota but then there not the same price are they.
colin

[teamidris]

Get a sumo bar track-rod, as they like OE ones a lot

The front hockey-sticks (radious arms) are good and strong and act as an anti roll bar through the bushes. I can flex that front axel due to weight (1800kg) which may not be possible with a lighter truck? If I was starting from scratch, I would look hard at full 4 link. You have a load of fabrication work to do, so maybe the extra bit is worth it?

Might as well do the swivel seals while it is off.
(loads of bits available for a popular axel)

The back axel is pretty good with that top ball. The A frame anchor points will need to be strong though, as it does a lot of force.

The breather is vulnerable when tying down to the trailer. I welded a 1/4" fitting to the diff pumpkin top instead.

I say the axels are weak as I have a V8 on the front, but given the smaller engine they should serve you really well

As a total guess I would think Vit coils? I see folks save time by getting brackets and mounts cut off old chassis.

We are going to need to see photo's of it's build

[suzukivit1]

i did look at 4 link up front but the engine sits to low in the chassis so there is little room for the top links, ive moded the rear a arm on the vitara and i have had the axle on looks good plenty of flex but way to much drop IF BOTH sides let hang the rear prop binds so i will be fitting a limit strap to solve this. I also done the steering bar from the pas box to the axle and will prob do the same for the track bar to did some of them come with a bracket on the bottom of the front diff that the track bar runs past.
sorry for the thread hi jak
colin

[owen_zuki]

You could look at 1 link with panhard for the front, theres a guy who sells a kit on ebay for landy front axle

[suzuki jake]

I've got Landy axles on mine the front axle monts are all the same as a Landy you just have to space the spring monts off the chassis 2 inch each siZe also with the rear I mounted the spring inside the chassis but I'm running front radius arms on the rear as well it work very well and I haven't broke anything up to yet if you need more info pm me cheers jake

[vitara_mad]

[sus]

[suzukivit1]

is it the steering box that limits your lock or? the vit has exactly 4 turns lock to lock first thing i did was crnter the steering wheel then made the steering bar and its just short of the landy stops on the swivel. sus what did you do this time?

[sus]

Colin i lost drive to the front so carried on playing coz of the rear locker, it goes well still,then found i could hardly steer, looked under front and the mount has broke of the chassis which then goes across the axle to the axle, its the 2nd time its done this since the sas swap

[suzukivit1]

was it a weld that gave way or a part?
Colin

[suzukivit1]

[sus]

[suzukivit1]

can you send me a pic of how it mounts. pm sent
colin

[sus]

pic sent mate

[owen_zuki]

Sus i saw your truck loaded up yesterday was having a look at the front axle conversion, I was in the purple daihatsu terios, looks like a nice bit of kit, might be worth getting that mount braced aswell as theres alot of pressure put on it, hope you have it done for yarwell I would like to see how it performs.

[sus]

[owen_zuki]

Both good sites, cant do much at tixover with standard suspension on the terios, astra mk2 rear shocks on it and we will be sorted.
As far as landy axle conversion I was going to do it to an sj but never got round to it, i was going to 1 link the front and use longer johny jointed arms for the rear but keep the std landy a frame, for springs i was going to use lorry trailer airbags, I found some that would pump to 800mm and was going to set it up using 4 solinoids so i could force the wheels down when articulating so you always have a wheel on the floor. also using air you can jack the back up up steap climbs to stop it flipping and the oposite for down hills or side slopes. Maybe the terios might end up with this setup when the mrs ent looking

[suzukivit1]

no email mate?
colin

[vitara_mad]

ive removed the steering stop bolts from the vit steering box but still can't get nowhere near enough steering nowhere near the steering stops on the landy axles when its fully locked over

i can't extend the pitman arm due to the panhard rod so planning on shortening the arm on the wheel hub & hope that works

anyone got any pics of there landy axle setup on a vit ???

[suzukivit1]

when i refit the parts on the front i will post up some pics.
colin

[suzukivit1]

ok here is the panhard mounting will be adding some more gussets and joining it to the other side of the chassis

[vitara_mad]

sorted my steering problem by drilling a new hole on the hub for the steering bar im now getting full lock upto the steering stops on the axle

[suzukivit1]

thats good how did you get the correct taper for the ball joint?
colin

[vitara_mad]

ive not used ball joints i made the steering bar & used m16 rose joints on both ends

[mud_puppy]

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just fitted disco axles on my vit problem ive got now is theres is not much lock to the steering[/quote]


How did you get over the gearing with the diffs ect, ive been considering the same conversion

Thanks

[owen_zuki]

If you get 10 spline axles you can put series diffs in

[owen_zuki]

There 4.7:1 ratio

[mud_puppy]

Si in theroy I could use 24 spline axles with 4.75 r and p's . Series diffs are not that strong I didn't think

[mud_puppy]

Was a sj box used to?

[owen_zuki]

Think you can just ring and pinion best to check on the landy side but im sure ive read threads where people have just ring and pinion them