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Well, got my first box of parts off AJ today. Can not recommend him highly enough (although all emails were answered by "Anthony and Bev" so they both do a stellar job!!).
Emails were always answered promptly, they gave me clear indications of what they had in stock and when they would get items in, shipping was cheap (especially to WA) and I thought the parts prices were quite competitive. They also had all the parts I was chasing from the 101 club originally. For new owners of 101's skip the hassles and go straight to them.
Land Rover 101 - British 4wd Imports - Home Page
Now I just have to order my inner bearings off them which they just got into stock and seeing Ron's posts, I'll see what some hub caps are worth too while I'm at it. Stoked to finally get some good service.
New toys:
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AJ has a great deal of helpful info on the 101s and when I had my Defender I found he was very good on parts for it too
Ron
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stuee
I wouldn't pay much attention to his website as I don't think it has been amended in a few years - always best to give Bev a call.
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Gday Stuee The 101 is looking great, the hard work is paying off.i think it would make a great wedding car;). i also have bought a few things from bev and aj and have found them to be very helpful. keep up the good work. im taking the old girl out for a run today to clean out the cobwebs.:D
Gaz
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Looks like a perfect day to go for a drive too! Very jealous :D I'll be out working on mine today. Cleaning and painting parts this morning, inspecting the front diff this arvo if all goes well.
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your progress
WOW,
You, sir are inspiring.
I've just read through all the progress of your project. Beautifully done sir.
very impressive.
I wish you well, and look forward to seeing future progress.
keep up the fantastic job.:)
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Finished off a bit more this weekend, and planning to finally open the diff up for a look tomorrow seeing as I have the day off (WA Day - where we plan our succession :wasntme:)
I cleaned up some bits since the tarp I had covering my pile of bits has torn itself up so with winter coming I thought I best get some of the more important bits cleaned and painted.
First up the air cleaner, what it looked like before:
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After a clean and few coats of paint:
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Opened the diff up and its not looking good. Structurally its fine but there is a lot of rust. The whole assembly rotates fine but I'm not sure where to proceed from here. Reading up on it now. Basically it looks like the options are either pull it out and clean everything and reassemble or clean it out in situ, re-oil, run, drain, re-oil until clean etc.
Looking at the workshop manual, i would need a spreader to get the diff assembly out, otherwise it looks straight forward to pull out. I don't have the tools or knowledge to completely disassemble the diff if that's required, and unfortunately, not the money at the moment either :(.
Pics:
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Thinking about it now I don't see how the bearings cant be shagged. Cleaning some of the rust off leaves a small bit of pitting, that sort of pitting on the bearings cant be a good thing to ignore.
Looking at some of the old threads on here about removing the diff. Seen Ron's home made spreader but there's also mention that careful levering will get it out. Need to get the hubs and CV's out first.
Going to have a look at the back now too as I cant see how that wont be in the same state:(
*edit Back diff is fine :D It still had oil in so only a tiny bit of surface rust up the top of the diff housing and cover. Will clean it right up and put the cover back on. With this and the fact that the discs and hubs haven't been shipped for my disc brake conversion yet I'm going to put my attention to the back axle instead and get that finished. I will sit on the front for a while to think about how to best tackle it.
