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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!

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

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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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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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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

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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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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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

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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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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by suzukisteve » Wed Jun 12, 2013 5:06 pm
as it goes brt are a really good brand

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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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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.
I stand corrected
17887/17831 koyo
30307 timken
30306 timken