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Land Rover Defender 90 Workshop Manual (NAS)20 · Brakes
20 · Brakes

Mounting inboard piston

Make
Land Rover
Model
Defender 90 Workshop Manual (NAS)
Section
Repair › Mounting inboard piston
BrakesMounting inboard piston
  1. Coat piston with brake fluid. Insert it squarely REAR BRAKE DISC into bore. Do not tilt piston during insertion and leave 8mm, 0.2 in projecting from bore. Service repair no - 70.10.11.
  2. Coat a new wiper seal with brake fluid and fit to new seal retainer. Slide assembly, seal first, over Remove protruding piston into bore recess.
  3. Using special tool LRT-70-500- piston clamp, press home seal retainer and piston.

Mounting inboard piston

  1. Remove rear hub assembly. See REAR AXLE AND FINAL DRIVE, Repair, Rear hub .

assembly

Assembly – Remove rear hub assembly. See REAR AXLE AND FINAL DRIVE, Repair, Rear hub .
  1. Carry out same procedure as for removing and fitting outboard piston and seals, instructions 8 to 16.

Fit calipers and pads to vehicle

  1. Fit caliper to axle, tighten bolts evenly to 82 Nm, 60 lbf ft.
  2. Connect brake pipe to caliper. Tighten to 15 Nm, 11 lbf ft.
  3. Remove clamp from flexible brake hose.
  4. Remove 5 nyloc nuts securing road speed sensor ring to disc.
  5. Remove sensor ring.
  6. Remove disc bolts.
  7. Remove disc from rear hub.

Refit

  1. Fit disc to rear hub.
  2. Apply loctite 270 and fit disc bolts. Tighten to 73
  3. Insert pads and retaining springs, secure in position with new retaining pins and spread 10. Fit rear hub assembly. ends. Ensure retaining springs are located correctly.
  4. Bleed brake system. See Brake System Bleed Disc reclamation
  5. Press brake pedal firmly several times to locate pads. 11. Check disc thickness. The disc may be
  6. Fit road wheels, remove axle stands and finally tighten road wheel nuts, 130 Nm, 95 lbf ft.
  7. Road test vehicle.
  • CAUTION: New brake pads require
  • ’bedding-in’, for several hundred miles
  • before brakes are at maximum efficiency.

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Nm, 54 lbf ft

  1. Using new nyloc nuts fit sensor ring.
  2. Check total disc run out, this must not exceed 0,15 mm, 0.006 in. If necessary reposition disc. See REAR AXLE AND .

FINAL DRIVE, Repair, Rear Hub Assembly

machined to minimum thickness of 12 mm, 0.472 in. Machine equal amounts off each face.

  • NOTE: The brake disc MUST BE renewed if
  • the minimum running thickness stamped
  • on the disc is recorded.

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