Thread: Gav's 101.

Geez, I wish I'd taken more pics now.







In hindsight, we should have spread them out more.

Be prepared to pay dollars for a new starter if you have to buy one. The started died on "CanDo" a while back so a new one was ordered through our supplier from England. $550.00 approx incl freight, 24volt.

Mrs hh

Luckily mine is 12 volt. I'll get a price through work tomorrow - we get a huge discount on OEX stuff - I paid $129 for the one in the Rangie and they had one on the shelf.

Hope this is similar in price, I just need to track down a part number.

Oh, and just pulled the old one out and apart - the solenoid is burnt out, so not going to bother putting a new solenoid on a 40 year old starter, so will just get a new one. Hopefully for the right price, but it is what it is.

Well, looks like it is a common garden variety starter used in all V8 Land Rovers from 1972 to 2004 so not exactly rare or expensive. Retail prices on line range from 64 quid from OS and $132 here in Aus up to $350 depending on retailer and brand - From Chinese to OEX (probably still Chinese but I've got a couple of them now and never had an issue up to the higher priced Bosch units.

Will see what sort of price I can snag on for in the morning after speaking to a few bods, but it will be back on the road quickly.

Mine is an LRS196 Lucas unit, as per the cross reference chart below, there's a stack of options.

Lucky for you, unlucky for us, though having 2x 24 volt vehicles parts are interchangeable Harry rang you before on your work phone BTW.

Mrs hh

Well, we've all bagged out Land Rover Engineers from time to time, but I think they get it right with one thing - the starter motor wasn't changed through the life of the V8 - the part number off mine cross referenced to 'Rover V8 - 1972 to 2004'.

So, I dropped in to see the friendly folk at British Car Components in North Melbourne during my lunch break and within a few seconds, they knew what I needed and headed out the back to grab one off the shelf for me. Had a chat and a Coffee and talked all things 101 and other stuff. Big thanks and shout out as always to Dave and the Guru. Friendly 1 on 1 service, (actually 2 on 1 ) parts on the shelf and great pricing.

Got home just before, all of 2 minutes to fit and Chucky breathed into life once more. You don't realise how bad your old starter really is until you stick a new one in there - much faster cranking now.

I thought the 101 starter was different, in the fact that the solenoid was mounted high so as not to fowl the front prop.. Know there was a difference from the standard starter.. Long time since I had anything to do with a V8 starter tho!

The solenoid is well out of the way, see pic below. It would be a VERY bad day if they touched - it would mean the engine had fallen out.

And it's by far one of the easiest starter motors to change - less than 5 minutes including getting the tools.