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Been trying to weigh that up this afternoon. Its easy enough, just time comsuming. It was £46 aftermarket. JD was £76! So eother way i sort of expected something with tidy edges!
daleyd
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I think you’ve got case for asking for a refund of it came like that from supplier - can’t help you as to whether it would leak or not but I can’t say I’d be happy fitting something like that!
especially if its a lot of work to strip again .
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i must admit spending good money on seals when deep in an engine or hard to get areas id buy genuine saving £30 when there that important seams a waste
Its not hard to get, just a waste of time. £76 just sounded pretty extortionate for the genuine part. Its a zf 300 series axle (apl325) so theres a chance ford/nh seals are the same and might be cheaper. I think corteco make them but im only getting them on US sites at the moment.
My worry is that this is the get out for anything I fit. I am not a professional. I can do the job fine - have rebuilt land rovers for years but on the odd occasion I have had to return parts theres always an undertone that it was my fault. (In the land rover world, learning early on not to buy Britpart meant most parts were decent quality)Warrantythey will say damaged in fitting
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I can't remember if I've told you this Rich but you know what it's like between OE, OEM and after market parts in the LR world.
I had a friend from uni who works at JLR and she did stints in a lot of departments as part of her induction of sorts. One of those was in parts management. At the time JLR was getting slated for reliability so they did an internal study to find out why. It turned out that a lot of their reliability issues weren't down to stuff they'd made but batches of components bought in from suppliers. I.e. One batch would be fine then the next wouldn't (but of course these might be massive batches so might span the lifetime of a vehicle model). So it wasn't necessarily their fault but the third party component failing.
They then spoke to suppliers about putting in testing and better quality assurance and this is where the additional cost for genuine parts comes from - basically all the overheads of guaranteeing the parts meet their spec. Now of course for some aftermarket stuff they are as good as genuine, sometimes better and the likes of you and I can work those out but for the average punter genuine at least means it meets JLRs spec and should be fit for purpose.
It'd be remiss to think that other manufacturers don't have something similar in place.
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If it's a zf axle the chances are that it would have been fitted to some MF tractors too, and when I was involved we never had any issues with quality control. Dealers kept my number on speed dial too if they found any prices out of line and I'd be surprised if its changed. Worth trying your nearest dealer.
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Go to a decent bearing and seal supplies, it's there bread and butter they should be able to supply a quality part on dimensions.
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Looks like a truck hub seal, the sort where the inner rotates/slides inside the outer. I wouldn’t reuse it even if it wasn’t damaged. Don’t think you would get one from a bearing shop, good chance of getting one from a truck factors if you could be bothered to trawl through the catalogue.
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