Thread: Stuee's 101 Rebuild

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

Originally Posted by stuee

Land Rover 101 - British 4wd Imports - Home Page

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.

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.

Gaz

Looks like a perfect day to go for a drive too! Very jealous I'll be out working on mine today. Cleaning and painting parts this morning, inspecting the front diff this arvo if all goes well.

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.

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 )

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:



After a clean and few coats of paint:

Next up was the heater matrix box. I would have tackled the heater blower as well but I couldn't get the fan off the shaft to disassemble it so it went back on the shelf (out of the rain) along with a dummy spit.

The heater matrix was in a pretty shabby state, the core itself was fine but the box was terrible. What it was like:




After some TLC:

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 .

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