I've got an 81' L200 Sport over here in New Zealand. It's a great truck, I absolutely love it, out of all my vehicles, its the one I'd never sell. My wife has an 07 Outlander, and I've also got an old Starion I'm doing up, so I guess you could say that we're a mitsy family through and through :-).
I was wanting to put the taller gears from a widebody starion in the back of my truck (3.54:1), and an LSD while I was at it, as I do a lot of highway driving. I came across a complete rear axle from an 85' L200, the last of the 1st gens and snapped it up. I've got an LSD center (LOM83) from a 2nd gen, and got a bloke over in the states to send me some 3.54:1 8" starion gears. It's all looking like it'll go together without any major hiccups.
The axle from the 85 was pretty rough when I got it, and didn't get any better sitting in my garden on its end for a year... I've got it totally torn down and have bead blasted all the brake components ready for zinc plating, and its all come up nice. I've got new drums (Bendix PDR0420), new shoes, cylinders, bearings and all the other misc hardware... But I've broken the cardinal rule of brake jobs, which is to to one side at a time so you can use the other side as a reference for how it all went together!
Anyone have any pictures of the setup knocking about so I can figure it out? Everything I can find is for either the 10" stuff from the montero/pajero, or the early 9" stuff like the 81' axle that is currently in my truck.
I've attached a couple of photos, one of the truck and a couple of the brake bits to help identification. Cheers!
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