Thread: Hub inner seals

Really annoying that they insist that they're allowed to sell their parts as OEM purely because they don't state which manufacturer...

Our local Series drive train expert over here in the West (one of those who trained under Land Rover in the 50's) don't rate the real Genuine or NOS parts though. OK for a stationary museum piece, but for a working and running vehicle he only fits Corteco Seals as that's the brand Land Rover apparently switched to when they worked out the leather seals weren't very good...

Pretty certain Statewide Bearing sells their products

Corteco: Sealing

http://www.statewidebearings.com.au/...ing/oil-seals/

Cheers,

Lou

Originally Posted by Loubrey

Really annoying that they insist that they're allowed to sell their parts as OEM purely because they don't state which manufacturer...

Our local Series drive train expert over here in the West (one of those who trained under Land Rover in the 50's) don't rate the real Genuine or NOS parts though. OK for a stationary museum piece, but for a working and running vehicle he only fits Corteco Seals as that's the brand Land Rover apparently switched to when they worked out the leather seals weren't very good...

Pretty certain Statewide Bearing sells their products

Corteco: Sealing

Oil Seals | NBR, Viton, Steel | Statewide Bearings

Cheers,

Lou

Hello again.

Just pulling up this relatively old post to make a follow up inquiry.

I got back on to this task the other day after many months of it sitting idle while work, travel etc got in the road.

Phoned Statewide Bearings here in Brisbane but they don't happen to stock or source Corteco seals. Apparently they can supply an alternative make but didn't elaborate on whether they were as good as the Corteco product - which my reading seems to confirm are very good, as your local Land Rover expert has suggested.

So, I made direct contact with the Australian distributors for Corteco, but was advised by one of the technical staff that no-one would stock the relevant seals locally and they would need to be ordered as a special manufacturing run from the parent company overseas. Three issues there - the minimum size of an order to warrant a run (I only need 4), the cost associated with that minimum size and a 9 month delivery delay were I still keen to pursue it. Needless to say it didn't progress beyond that.

I was wondering if your local contact might happen to have any in his stockpile or might know a source over there that I might chase up about a set for my Series 3?

Cheers,

Neil