The hate and love affaire with my 1976 Land Rover, a series 3, 109 inch ambulance bodied beauty.

Monday, April 24, 2006



Disc brake conversion aka axle swap
Yesterday I went to Groningen to fit disc-brakes from Serious onto my ambulance.
I have always had braking problems with the old drums and you really need good brakes on this 2300kg+ Land Rover!

Bowy offered me to swap the whole axle instead of the discs only. Sounded great, he told me this could easily be done in a few hours, I really doubted that! We started at 9:00 and by 11:00 the new axle was fitted and mounted!!!! Bowy called it "turbo-sleutelen, it's a groningen thing" he said.

After a few minor tweaks I was ready to hit the road and what a difference. I have to make sure everything is tied down in the back, otherwise things start flying thourgh the car, with this much braking power.

Thanks Bowy for fitting Toyata axles on your car and therefor selling the TIC discs to me! And for the great turbo-sleutelen demo.

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