Thread: Stuee's 101 Rebuild

I too think that the balance weights are excessive in number; although this can also be caused by tyres that have been made out-of-round.

The fact that your standard rims fit; seems to point to the new rim as the culprit.

An easy check to do is the following:
1. Jack the vehicle and make sure that the bearings are adjusted properly.

2. Place a box, or stand, or sandbag near the rim with a pointer on top of it e.g. Phillips screwdriver. Adjust the pointer so that it is close to, but not touching the rim - at the bottom is a good place. Mark the rim with a chalk mark.

3. Rotate the wheel slowly and note in the vertical plane (ie. looking at the car from the side) if the rim is diametrically round, or not. Record in mm any deviation from prefect concentricity. Note this may involve several revolutions until the pointer is where you want it.

4. Rotate again checking this time for runout i.e. does the rim get close to the pointer and then move away from it - this is viewed in the vertical plane from the front or back of the car. Record the observations.

If the rim appears not be true tell your supplier - a video as evidence might be useful.

The same test can be used for tyres. I once proved to my tyre-fitter that the new tyres for my tractor were 25mm out-of-round! The thing was un-driveable at 20km/h; the replacement was 6mm out-of-round, which still leads to an uncomfortable ride.

Good luck!

Cheers Charlie

Well seeing Brute's 101 registered was enough for me to pick up the phone so I'm booked in to see an engineer tomorrow on my RDO, called Summerville Engineering and they're booked out till after the new year so I will have to ring them and arrange a date. I've got a plans for some temporary wheels in the mean time (thanks John!).

Roll bar padding will be borrowed from my dad's Prado, seat-belts will be measured tomorrow to get made up and the other jobs I can knock off in a couple hours over the weekend.

I've just realized I need to have it inspected within one month or the whole thing gets re-checked again so need to get it checked before the 18th. Amazing what seeing a number plate on a 101 can do!

So, with that in mind we'll be seeing u and Brute driving over for Melrose then!

Originally Posted by Sitec

So, with that in mind we'll be seeing u and Brute driving over for Melrose then!

We ( Team W4 ) just got a bunch of registration forms for Melrose in the post so maybe

Originally Posted by stuee

Roll bar padding will be borrowed from my dad's Prado,

I find it amazing - Aussie 101s dont need roll bar padding and Aussie 101s don't even have compliance plates.

Garry

Mine had foam padding all over the roll bar when I got it - but it seems to have fallen off since I bought it...

Some good progress today. Picked up some seatbelts from Seatbelt Solutions today (very helpful guy). Ended up cheaper than I was expecting but I think that was due to mis-communications over the phone.

Went to an engineer today too and all good but I need to make up some straps for the rear seats then go back during the week to pick up the paper work. These need to be 50x3mm mild steel and bolt to the seat frame and chassis. I can knock these up over the weekend from some overpriced steel from bunnings.

I've got some rubber ends for chair legs and the like from bunnings which fit nicely over the bolts too so just the roll bar padding to pick up from my dad and its nearly all ready for re-inspection.

You should have called in Stu while you were in welshpool, I had the 101 at work