Brakes:

Not that there is anything wrong with the Pajero's brakes, the following factors convinced me to upgrade the front brakes on the Pajero:

* 33" tyres fitted (vs 29" standard) equates to nearly 15% reduction in effective braking effort, due to the longer arm on the moment.
* heavy loads I carry when over-landing
* general standard of driving in the rural Eastern Cape demands quick stops!
* crystal ball shows either an off-road trailer or off-road caravan in our future
* it's a Mitsu, so it should be easy!

After reading a few threads on the 4x4Wire forum, it became clear that upgrading from the Gen1's smallish single piston calipers to the Gen2's 2-pot calipers is a bolt-on conversion! Typical Mitsu!
The only required modification is to trim the dust shield with a tin-snips / small grinder.

The first step was to get a pair of Gen2 front calipers.

Our friend Martin / Gert at Parthunt came to the party and supplied a pair of brand new calipers with disk pads for R1200-00 ( $140 )
(that's not much more than the prices quoted on South African forums for some vehicles' disk pads).

2¢ hrs to do the swap!

Amazing that parts off a 1999 Pajero bolts straight onto a 1984 design !
(mine is 1989, but the Gen1s were virtually unchanged from 1984 - 1990)

Most of the time taken was for preparation, placing Paj on trestles, wheels off and tidying up.

Simple bolt-on.
I just had to trim the dust shield a touch with a tin-snips.

Master cylinder:
As a matter of principle, I replaced the brake master cylinder kit as well.
The first one lasted 20 yrs and 325 000 kms, s I might as well!

I could not find the kit for the Gen1 Mitsu, but found out that Nissan copied the design for their Maxima / Skyline & 1-tonner master cylinders , so that provided the kit rubbers.
For the record, I used the Spirex kit FED.SX 7926X

Looking at the pics again, I think I will fit new rotors (disks) shortly.

The new calipers:



The old:


The new: