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Carrying on from this thread showthread.php?t=24103.

I decided I can just cut down the drums and remove all the brake stuff from a drum brake rear end. I'm wanting this for a trailer.

Must be from EA82 (no torsion bars). Must be 2WD (lighter). Gotta be cheap, or else I'll just go to u-pull it and get it. Hoping someone in SA has a rear end that I can have.

Cheers,
Phiz

You're prob better off trying to find the rear end from a FWD vortex.
The disc brake set up is useless for 4wd (so they're worthless) and once you remove the backing plate, caliper, brake rotor, it'll prob be lighter than the drum setup anyway.

That is what i thought, but read the thread i linked to...

Not sure a 2wd one is really much lighter. I used one for my trailer and it seemed exactly the same. Maybe a few grams as it doesn't have the stub axels. I could be wrong, didn't weigh it, but certainly didn't strike me as noticeable different.
I left the drum brakes intact on mine in case I decide to run some brake lines in future to actually use them. Doubt it though, the trailer's not suitable for really heavy loads anyway.

actally, if you use the vortex one with the disc brakes, you may be able to adapt some front calipers onto them to use the cable handbrake
Or use the Honda caliper conversion to get a cable brake

and agree, would been stuff all weight difference
most of the weight is in the diff & moustache bar

and there wasn't that many 2wd L series
85 model wagon, plus the sedans (which counted for only minimal sales compared with the wagons, you can't pt a bale of hay in the boot of a sedan)

Why is the torsion bar out of the question. Ive seen a boat trailer made from a 2wd MY rear and the torsion bar meant there were no springs to fabricate, made it really simple