Thread: Sitec's 101..

Well, got into the shockers again today!! I tapped the lower front shocker mount with an M16 x 2mm thread as once cleaned out properly the holes are M14. The top holes on the chassis front and rear are M12, so they'll be getting the M14 treatment tomorrow!

Scratch that.. One of the holes at the rear is M12 and the other is M14.. Same at the front... Seems the chassis welding team had a different batch of tube per side!! Sooo, they will all be 14mm I.D very shortly and I'll have matching M16 x 40 10.9 bolts (that I have in stock from fitting loaders to tractors!) with flat and spring washer all round!! If you really wanted to get technical, you could tap one of the original split pin holes and put a locking grub screw in there too!! I don't think an M16 rattled up with the gun will come out tho!!

I also took the rad out last night as at some point in its past the overflow pipe had become detached from the filler neck. Took it into work, Barossa Radiators collected it at 11am, fitted a new neck, cleaned, tested it, painted it and returned it to me at 2:30 all for $60!!! That to me is fantastic local service!! He also said that it'll be easy to make the rad a 4 core when the Cummins goes in, and if needs be he can make a new rad out of bits with the same outside dimensions but a 6 row core and bigger hose outlets!!

There's some impressive service.

Luckily all my shockers are all good, but I was able to find the part numbers when I was cleaning they up. Might be of use to anyone who's trying to find/match with new!

Fronts:- NRC 1367 (second number found :-Q365M 5 75)

Rears:- NCR 1368 (second number found :-Q366M 3 75)

Useful numbers, both come up as No Longer Available though.

As mentioned before, and confirmed today with a few emails to a very helpful guy at the SA Transport place, I will be needing reversing lights.. Would I be right in saying that the blanking plug just in front and to the vehicle left of the gear lever boot atop the gearbox is where a reversing light switch could be fitted, and if so, does a std RRC LT95 switch just screw in and work? Also wondering if a set of NAS side lights would be legal as reversing lights as I think these would be within the original look of the vehicle....?

Yep, mine is screwed in there. I can't see why the NAS side lights wouldn't be legal - they would probably be better than the crap ones on the back of my L322...

Sorry what are NAS sidelights.

The Aust Army 101s had a single white reversing light.

These are my reversing lights - just a standard small worklight and the lens has a family resemblance to the standard indicators and tail light lens.

Yes the switch does screw in just in front of the gear lever.

Garry