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Diff Bearings

Post by ScottieJ » Wed Jun 12, 2013 12:27 pm

I'm about to start building my ARB as my diff that I have fitted is screwed.

Anyone know anywhere in the UK that doesn't sell the carrier bearings for a ridiculous price? I want to rebuild the diff with all new bearings.

Simply bearings want £97 per bearing for Koyo ones, Yes that's for each carrier bearing! :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: I found them on US ebay for £25 each, I would happily pay that!

how the hell does that make any sense when you can get a complete diff rebuild kit with decent bearings from lror in the US delivered for £105 :er:

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Re: Diff Bearings

Post by ScottieJ » Wed Jun 12, 2013 12:38 pm

Just found Timken ones for £72.29 each, still not cheap enough!
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Post by Ladaman » Wed Jun 12, 2013 12:45 pm

I will see what we can do through work. Are you after reputable brand ones, Timken, FAG, SKF, Koyo etc... or just bearings!!

Is it the 17887-17831 bearings only you want, or the 30307 & 30306 as well?
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Re: Diff Bearings

Post by ScottieJ » Wed Jun 12, 2013 12:56 pm

Ladaman wrote:I will see what we can do through work. Are you after reputable brand ones, Timken, FAG, SKF, Koyo etc... or just bearings!!

Is it the 17887-17831 bearings only you want, or the 30307 & 30306 as well?
I'm after all 4 and good ones please, don't think I'd want to trust cheap ones to look after an ARB air locker :lol: I could probably just re-use the ones in the diff i'm going to use as I've picked out the best front one that I have but thought i'd look into getting some new bearings so it's 100% fresh.

This is the cheapest option I can find so far. http://www.lowrangeoffroad.com/index.ph ... -kits.html
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Re: Diff Bearings

Post by NylonAdmiral » Wed Jun 12, 2013 2:32 pm

I'm pretty sure I recently bought my kingpin bearings for a reasonable price. I think they were from somewhere called something like "bearingboys.co.uk". Might be worth a look?
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Re: Diff Bearings

Post by ScottieJ » Wed Jun 12, 2013 2:50 pm

NylonAdmiral wrote:I'm pretty sure I recently bought my kingpin bearings for a reasonable price. I think they were from somewhere called something like "bearingboys.co.uk". Might be worth a look?
Yeah kingpin bearings are quite cheap, apparently because these ones arent a 'common' size in the UK they are 3-4x the price of exactly the everywhere else in the world :hmm: strange as I'm pretty sure they are used in some Toyota diffs as well so can't be that uncommon?
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Re: Diff Bearings

Post by turbo-tom » Wed Jun 12, 2013 3:29 pm

Try brt bearings in hove , East sussex there along the road from me bot sure if the do postal service/ sell to the public worth a try.
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Re: Diff Bearings

Post by suzukisteve » Wed Jun 12, 2013 5:06 pm

as it goes brt are a really good brand :thumbup:
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Re: Diff Bearings

Post by Boyes » Thu Jun 13, 2013 9:49 am

Not sure if you've got a decent price yet, but got a quote from a supplier at work.

£95 for all four including vat, just waiting for him to get back to me on brand but they'll be FAG/SKF that's what we usually have.

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Re: Diff Bearings

Post by Boyes » Thu Jun 13, 2013 10:22 am

Boyes wrote:Not sure if you've got a decent price yet, but got a quote from a supplier at work.

£95 for all four including vat, just waiting for him to get back to me on brand but they'll be FAG/SKF that's what we usually have.
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