Freelander MK1 owners or experts please.

Without going into too much detail 🙄 I'm needing to set up a chain drive rear axle. Don't need a diff as there is a chain to each wheel from a transaxle so am thinking of using a Freelander diff and modifying the output pots to take a sprocket. I was gonna use A series Mini bits but have realised the pots for the driveshafts only run in brass bushes and not bearings so the lateral load will kill them. So my question is do the pots on the MK1 Freelander slide into bearings? From googling it it looks like they do, also, how are the driveshafts/pots held into the diff? Many thanks peeps, Phil.