[tanshi]

After a set of 1 litre cv's to do a disk brake swap on an LJ50

[zookster666]

Got a complete front diff here only need rotors and calipers pm me if your keen

[tanshi]

PM sent

[want33s]

You can run 1.3 CV's if you fit them to your 1.0 axle.

[tanshi]

im pretty sure they are a different length, and so can only use 1 litre cvs

you can use 1.3 cvs but i think you need custom made inner axle shafts

[want33s]

tanshi wrote:

im pretty sure they are a different length, and so can only use 1 litre cvs

you can use 1.3 cvs but i think you need custom made inner axle shafts

PM Christover.. He did it in Frog.

[ca18zook]

the 1.3 and 1 liters also have different splines
If there is a way to run 1.3 cv in 1L diffs please share the info.
Trent

[2stroker]

Unlike Sierra's LJ50 and LJ80 have equal length front axles and drum brakes. A Suzuki front axle is two pieces, a long end that goes to the diff and a short end that goes to the hub, they are joined by a cv joint made up of a cup like outer race, ball bearings and a bearing cage that has an inner race that has a splined centre

The long end of the axle is splined both ends, one spline for the diff centre and the other for the cv, the cv spline has a round wire spring circlips so the the axle spline can be pushed into the cv bearing carrier spline and lock into place. Fortunately the cv spline on an LJ and a 1 litre is the same which allows you to do disc brake and free wheeling hub upgrades to your LJ fairly easily.

For the upgrade you use an LJ axle and a 1 litre axle and make one from the two, you seperate both axles at the cv's and then fit a LJ inner axle to a 1 litre outer axle. You cannot reuse the LJ swivel housing as it is different and will not accept the sierra discs etc, you can use either a 1 litre or a 1300 swivel head, disc, caliper and fwh.

You cannot use a 1300 axle for the upgrade because the spline in the cv is different to 1 litre and LJ so the two parts of the axle cannot be combined.

This bit is hard to describe but here goes - some 1 litre axles are very difficult to get apart because on some of them the circlips that holds the axle into the cv is a one way circlip instead of a round wire circlip, in this case you can carefully cut the sierra axle off as close to the cv as possible with a cut off wheell or an angle grinder with a very fine disc. You can then turn the cv inside out so to speak and pull out the remaining end of the axle.

Of course you could spend money and have 2 long sierra axles cut down and splined to suit the LJ centres, that way you could use 1300 axles with stronger cv's however it is not a cost effective method and the weak point becomes the spline you have just had cut because the the LJ axle spline is a smaller diameter to the 1300.

[Highway-Star]

what 2stroker said


Trent, I "think", to fit 1.3 CV's to a 1L housing you put the entire narrow track 1.3 CV's and axles into the 1L. I think its a straight swap