Rear disc conversion

id spend far more if i didnt have a morgage and loads of other bills. Id move back in with my mum if i wasnt 27, then id have loads of money spare.

I hope to crack on during my next days off - I need to take it all apart as I've not greased or threadlocked anything as been taking it apart + putting it back together again a few times and will take some piccies to add to those you've got/been sent.

A fabricator friend is going to make a puller type tool for getting new bearings and retainers on shafts for me as I had been considering a press like Martin has - but I have access to a 10 ton bench press which I can press front bearings in and out on and radius arm bushes in with, so if this works ok I'll not need the floor standing press I was considering.

Once I've done the rear disc conversion and it's easier to get the rear shafts out I plan to relace the rear bearings regularly to prevent them from failing.

I plan to take the Jimny through more watery mud at our club in the future and it will eat bearings!

Kirkynut

kirkynut wrote: I plan to take the Jimny through more watery mud at our club in the future and it will eat bearings!

Kirkynut

Just bearings, try starter motors, radiators, alternators.... I avoid the watery stuff at all costs !

Gary

you dont need a press for rear wheel bearing

angle grinder to remove old ones & a lenth of scaffold tube & a bfh to fit new ones

i like the idea of rear discs & if it makes removing rear shafts easyer thats a big bonus cus its a pain in the butt with the drums

less than 5 minutes to remove shafts with rear disc kit.

Gary

as opposed to 15mins without .. hardest part is not 'aving a slide hammer!!