Thread: Stuee's 101 Rebuild

Didn't get a huge amount done today. Slept most of the afternoon as I'm still recovering from a chest infection. The following was the only progress I made:


Pretty much a whole bottle of loctite to fit the studs.

Originally Posted by stuee

Do you appreciate that the fluid reservoir that you have is not standard and maybe not actually be legal on a dual circuit system where individual reservoirs are required.

The 101 has two individual reservoirs, one of which (the rear brakes) has a separate internal clutch reservoir.

Garry

Yeh realise its not standard. Didn't realise it may be illegal. Internally its separated into different sections, the center outlet is separated by the outer two by a half height cylinder sort of thing so not all three outlets can drain at once.

The genuine items cost a fortune and I'm not a fan of some of the alternatives I've seen so far so considering keeping this for the time being.

I quite like the look of these though:


Except is says "For racing use only"

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/til-72-576
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/til-72-577

Like that reservoir! Why would it not be legal.... You'll just have to race everywhere!!!

A file would soon have that wording removed on the side of that reservoir...

Be a shame to scratch such a nice looking piece of kit. Maybe a simple dymo label over the top of it with front, rear and clutch for when it goes over pits, then pull it back off again

Again not a great deal done today. I moved a council planted tree on our verge about 1.5m so we can still fit a car on the verge. Then thought while I'm all grubby Ill give the front diff the final clean. Did that and got it looking quite nice then put the cover on and filled it with oil. Forgot to get pics before I put the cover on though.


Then I packed the front hub bearings with grease, fitted the seal. Haven't adjusted the preload with my shiny new dial gauge. Will get to that next weekend.


Also have to think about how I am gong to modify the calipers to fit. I don't have a die grinder and its a bit much for the dremel. Could use the grinder but not sure if the sparks may pit other parts of the caliper. A die grinder would have been useful a few times now and probably on a few occasions to come still but would be at least $150-200 outlay for die grinder and burr piece it seems. Might see if I can mark them up and get someone in the workshop at work do it for me.

A large rat tail file will work on the calipers and plently of elbow grease.
You don't need a dial guage.........when I was doing it I was just checking disc run out just for the hell of it.
Adjust wheel bearings as you would for a normal light truck by feeling the slight preload when doing up the bearing nut........spin the hub around afew times and recheck.

Originally Posted by 101 Ron

A large rat tail file will work on the calipers and plently of elbow grease.
You don't need a dial guage.........when I was doing it I was just checking disc run out just for the hell of it.
Adjust wheel bearings as you would for a normal light truck by feeling the slight preload when doing up the bearing nut........spin the hub around afew times and recheck.

Elbow grease is often missing from my tool kit

Having never put a hub back together I'm not sure what the 'feel' should be so I figure by using dial gauge this time round I'll get a 'feel' for what it should be.

I'm pretty happy with how its going so far though

edit* was just thinking then. Having seen your pics and having a look myself I could quit easily get the bulk of the material off with a hacksaw and neaten up with a file or the dremmel.