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| RobKeay Member Since: 19 Jul 2009 Location: Stafford Posts: 1591   
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Mine is leaking where did you get your new one from?
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16th Mar 2024 2:11pm |
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| Joncorry Member Since: 03 Apr 2022 Location: The Lake District Posts: 171  
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The new box was a truwsteer from SP4x4 in Liverpool. It wasn’t the best experience with them to be honest.
The box went in but you have to carefully reshape the smaller metal pipe to make it fix the new location, bit of a faff but doable. The new box is quite positive in feedback (as good as these are) and the air bled out ok. 2003 110 G4 used in 03 and 06 events - its well travelled. 2002 Range Rover G4 Event car (Australian leg) 2008 Discovery 3 G4 UK Selections car 1968 Series 2a |
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16th Mar 2024 7:04pm |
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| RobKeay Member Since: 19 Jul 2009 Location: Stafford Posts: 1591
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I’ve ordered one, already in the post. 24 month warranty so hopefully all will be well. Cheers for the lead
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18th Mar 2024 3:55pm |
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| RobKeay Member Since: 19 Jul 2009 Location: Stafford Posts: 1591
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When you say you had reshape what did you do. I’ve managed to get it to the location but the pipe doesn’t want to locate.
Sorry to bother you. |
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27th Mar 2024 9:10am |
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| Joncorry Member Since: 03 Apr 2022 Location: The Lake District Posts: 171
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The advice I was given (via a facebook search) was to make the pipe fit. Gently and slowly bending the hard pipe will allow it to fit the new location, don't rush it as the pipe can fracture and that's a new problem to sort.
I'll try and find a picture. It's a bit of trial and error to get it in the right position but it does fit eventually. The supplier was less than helpful, point of sale and money extraction is very efficient but after that... disappointing is the politest term I could describe it as. 2003 110 G4 used in 03 and 06 events - its well travelled. 2002 Range Rover G4 Event car (Australian leg) 2008 Discovery 3 G4 UK Selections car 1968 Series 2a |
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27th Mar 2024 9:57am |
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| Joncorry Member Since: 03 Apr 2022 Location: The Lake District Posts: 171
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This is the pic I was given on fb
 Click image to enlarge This is final bend of my pipe where it reaches the port. Click image to enlarge 2003 110 G4 used in 03 and 06 events - its well travelled. 2002 Range Rover G4 Event car (Australian leg) 2008 Discovery 3 G4 UK Selections car 1968 Series 2a |
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27th Mar 2024 10:02am |
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| RobKeay Member Since: 19 Jul 2009 Location: Stafford Posts: 1591
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We ended up skimming 0.3 of a mm off the pipe. Fitted then. I haven’t driven it yet as it’s in a body shop having all the corrosion sorted. But my mate said it felt better just moving it around their yard.
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27th Mar 2024 7:50pm |
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| RobKeay Member Since: 19 Jul 2009 Location: Stafford Posts: 1591
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Sorry to invade your for sale page.
Hopefully someone is in the market for a original box now 😗 |
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27th Mar 2024 7:51pm |
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| I Like Old Skool Member Since: 23 Feb 2015 Location: Manchester Posts: 834 
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Sorry for hacking an old thread but just looking at these new boxes from SP and wondering how it is doing nearly a year later. Any issues or still as good/better than new?
Compared to the questionable refurb offerings, at this price it does seem a bit of a no brainer and surely can't be any worse than the recycled option that could well have been through the refurb loop multiple times by now.... |
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31st Jan 2025 12:49pm |
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| Joncorry Member Since: 03 Apr 2022 Location: The Lake District Posts: 171
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Well, it’s still not the vast improvement claimed in the advertising. I can steer and it doesn’t leak are two positives I guess.
Would I buy again? No, I’d get a rebuilt version of the oem if oem wasn’t available. 2003 110 G4 used in 03 and 06 events - its well travelled. 2002 Range Rover G4 Event car (Australian leg) 2008 Discovery 3 G4 UK Selections car 1968 Series 2a |
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31st Jan 2025 1:12pm |
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| Oldowner Member Since: 26 Dec 2018 Location: South west Posts: 641 
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I fitted an SP one to a 300tdi 90 recently. Absolute nightmare.
Firstly the input shaft casting is now held by four M10 bolts. The bottom two bolts fouled the coilspring seat reinforcing gussets on the Richards chassis. Had to remove the bolts and skim the heads down on lathe to obtain enough clearance to fit the steering box. Admittedly this is an aftermarket chassis however the standard steering box fitted fine. Secondly the steel pipes required considerable reshaping and manipulating to fit. Finally, the lower steering column wouldn’t fit; with all the sliding Universal joints slack, I still had to use a mini die grinder to grind a new groove in the lower column to allow the retaining bolts to fit though the UJ’s. Again the original box fitted fine. I didn’t purchase it, I just fitted it for someone. Their original box had had the bearings break up and had ruined the box otherwise I would’ve rebuilt the original for them instead. SP4x4 are in my experience one of the worst retailers to deal with, so I didn’t even bother contacting them as they wouldn’t care anyway. |
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1st Feb 2025 5:51am |
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| I Like Old Skool Member Since: 23 Feb 2015 Location: Manchester Posts: 834
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OK, maybe not a straight swap then. Despite the fitting issues (and I have landrover build tolerances in mind), how do they last?
So far we have two users who haven't had any early failures. That's a 100% success rate, better than Br!tpart which can only be 50/50 at best....  |
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3rd Feb 2025 1:21pm |
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