Les Henson Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Just fitted a re-con steering box on a 110 - supplied by National Power Steering through Bearmach and the MOT tester has advised on excessive play in it! Anyone had any experience of this company? Les. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJIbex Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Yes, not good though, I fitted a replacement 3 to a customers 110 with excessively leak box. The first one leaked a little bit less than the box it replaced. The second one had been mis assembled and had had the main shaft out by enough to give a redicolous amount of right hand lock and barely any left hand lock. The third one seemed OK. From memory they did a standard and "gold top" box, the gold tops were not that much cheaper than a genuine Land Rover one. We never used them again. The genuine ones are built/rebuilt at adwest which is about 3 miles from me. I don't know if they offer private work. cheers Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACK CAB Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 I have a 6 Bolt Gemma Box supplied by National Power Steering, through Paddocks. I got one complete with drop arm as I didn't want to risk damaging my exchange trying to remove it. NPS clearly state exchanges should show no signs of abuse i.e hammer marks, mine was near mint in this respect (only leaking). Turned up poorly packaged, the drop arms top face hammered hard along it entire length and generally a lot of dents around unit. Phoned them (Stuart) and was told it would work fine, if not they would replace. So I fitted and bleed it, there was a great deal of free play. So I phoned them back and was told to adjust as they were unable to replicate these forces during reconditioning. End result is, box seems OK (it still has a very small amount of play at the wheel- all joints are new) but dose not leak. I think I would look around for a new unit next time or buy a manufactures reconditioned unit if it were available. Rod. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciderman Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 NPC Pure Sh*te . They only paint em up , Personaly go for an Adwest or Land rover recon box . It will cost you that much more but you only have to do the job once . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LandyManLuke Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 Adwest re-build on mine, been fine for over a year now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mo Murphy Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 Adwest recon on mine for a couple of years now, it's fine. I got mine directly from them without an exchange being required. HTH Mo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciderman Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 The same goes for ball joint kits for the drop arms , Adwest do their own kit and is OE spec and will last 3 times longer than the carp paddocks will sell you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Hiatt Posted May 18, 2007 Share Posted May 18, 2007 IIRC the last new Adwest box I bought was cheaper via Paddock than direct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonr Posted May 18, 2007 Share Posted May 18, 2007 Again, Adwest gets my vote! I've had several 'recon' boxes in the past which were just cleaned and painted with no attempt to fix the seals or play. the Adwest one is perfect and outwardly looked like it had a new sector shaft fitted. It was also very good value IMHO. Si Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alan kemp Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 I have been phoning Adwest for three hours now. One number shown on their web site does not work, the other is permenantly engaged.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pugwash Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 adwest for me too- had 2 boxes off them and been just perfect both times they are now part of Magal Engineering whose main switchboard number is 0118 969 2351 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bishbosh Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 To offer an alternative to Adwest - I had my box recondidtioned by Western Power Steering in Bristol a couple of years ago as a dodgy steering UJ caused it to leak. Been fine ever since. Service was good and quick. Price was good too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leigh12321 Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 is this national power steering in the UK? Because there's one in australia and has never been a supplier to Bacchus Marsh or Paddocks and are a highly respected company. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Henson Posted October 25, 2008 Author Share Posted October 25, 2008 Dunno, but I recently replaced a PAS box on an 03 plate TD5 Disco with a NPS 're-con' item and it didn't want to turn left. Had to replace it under warranty Les. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roybatty666 Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 I had a 6 bolt box sent with altered union ports (by the previous owner), called NPS and they could not apologise enough and sent another out straight away which was tight as a ducks butt and worked like a dream. From my experience I would use them again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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