[dyllan1]

hey guys just wondering if the 1.3 litre axles and diff front and back swap with my 1lt ones
wana do the swap cause my 1lts getting a 1.3 conversion so my as well swap the axles as well anyone dealt with this before and give me some feed back ?

[steak_knife]

Are you fitting 1.3 narrow track diff's???

[31zook]

or wt?

[dyllan1]

yeah sorry both are narrow track and i know the hand brake is different.

[steak_knife]

dyllan1 wrote:

yeah sorry both are narrow track and i know the hand brake is different.

You will have to bolt the entire housing's in, may as well do it complete, H/brake's are on the transfer so you won't need to touch anything there..

[dyllan1]

yeah i was going to just drop the 1lts complete and bolt the 1.3s complete back up thats why i thought id ask if they would just be a stright swap also are u sure the 1.3 handbrake is on the transfer cause i know my 1lt is but the 1.3 that i have go to direct to the rear drums

[steak_knife]

Flange's will be diffrent, you will need the n/t shafts, probly would be best to change over the h/bake's as the stud's out of the drum won't fit the n/t shaft's..
All brake line's should bolt up, it's a reasonably easy conversion..

[shep]

dyllan1 wrote:

yeah i was going to just drop the 1lts complete and bolt the 1.3s complete back up thats why i thought id ask if they would just be a stright swap also are u sure the 1.3 handbrake is on the transfer cause i know my 1lt is but the 1.3 that i have go to direct to the rear drums

are you sure they are nt diffs? i thought it was only WT's that had the handbrake in the rear drums.

[dyllan1]

by nt do u mean narrrow track
i think there both narrow track ?
and yeah i was going to swap the hand brake anyway as mine dosnt seem to work that good

[dyllan1]

okay now iam confused
how do i check if the 1.3 axles and diff are narrow track or wide track ?

[shep]

dyllan1 wrote:

by nt do u mean narrrow track
i think there both narrow track ?
and yeah i was going to swap the hand brake anyway as mine dosnt seem to work that good

i still have never heard of a NT with the hand brake in the rear drums. is it a nt that has had wt diffs swapped in?

[shep]

dyllan1 wrote:

okay now iam confused
how do i check if the 1.3 axles and diff are narrow track or wide track ?

run a tape measure along the top of the diff and i will measure mine
back in a tick

[dyllan1]

okay mines say a 1180mm it was raining and i did it pretty quick haha but its around that and that from say back of drum to back of drum

[shep]

from the inside of rear diff flange thing that the brakes bolt to, to the opposite one is 1180mm from memory a NT diff is 90mm shorter.

[shep]

well there ya go you have wt diffs

[shep]

get a perch kit from fatzook and a wt drag link and it will be a flex machine.

[steak_knife]

& some flare's...

[dyllan1]

haha okay this is so wierd i swear it is a nt thoe maybe it has been converted
i brought this whole sierra cut into a custom ute and got told it was a narrow track and i was like cool so gott the whole thing for 350 with a winch and 1.3 and 5 speed like the car was complete just rusted out and painted with a house roller lol so im scraping it but by the looks on the mounts and iam about to go measure them but i think they are wt diffs but already to go into a nt so i hope i scored on that one haha

[shep]

dyllan1 wrote:

haha okay this is so wierd i swear it is a nt thoe maybe it has been converted
i brought this whole sierra cut into a custom ute and got told it was a narrow track and i was like cool so gott the whole thing for 350 with a winch and 1.3 and 5 speed like the car was complete just rusted out and painted with a house roller lol so im scraping it but by the looks on the mounts and iam about to go measure them but i think they are wt diffs but already to go into a nt so i hope i scored on that one haha

go and measure the distance between the rear springs.

[shep]

i have wt diffs with nt spring spacing. approx 910mm between the springs.outside to outside.

[dyllan1]

okay went and had another look and i think it is wide track sierra
how hard is the conversion and is it that hard

[shep]

if you can take a photo of the front spring shackle mount we can tell ya for certain what it is.

bogfrog did a great write up on the swap. atari is good at searching