Parts Fairey overdrive

The RRC and Series Fairey overdrives are not the same and not interchangeable. I know you can get parts for the Series one from Rovers Down South in New Orleans, so you might try their website.

I know the overdrives as a unit are not interchangeable, but I thought the laygears are the same. Also , Fairey is a UK company, so why order parts from the USA ?

AFAIK Fairey no longer exist as a company.

Correct. I had a Fairey winch on my 110 and tried to get support for it. I got info from, I think, Superwinch, but they were not able to help with spares. John

Just got an answer from Roverssouth USA. Laygear is not the same. RR laygear is no longer available. :-((( Hope someone has a good used one.

Try LEGS in Oswestry.

Hi I know it might be more expensive but what about getting a new gear made by a gear company, if you want it that bad spend a bit of money and you will end up with an overdrive that you know is good !!!!

Rich

Because that is where the supply of parts plus the tooling went when Fairey (later Superwinch) got out of the overdrive business. As I understand it, Rovers Down South bought the rights to the designs, as well as the tooling and stock of spare parts. JD

There's also one here - if the page is up-to-date:

Sorry, Kees - that's the one that you don't want. My mistake.

Sometimes I just amaze myself othertimes I amaze someone else

Derek

Contacted Legs - out of stock, no new supply expected. Layshaft Series expected to become a problem soon too !! I was told this is a common problem with the Fairey overdrive units. Lookin at the damaged teeth seems to be a lubrication problem to me. (wrong type of oil) Fairey subscribes EP90 oil, while transfer box uses 20W50 oil. But ... there's an open connection between the inside of the OD unit and the gear box, so lubricants will mix. I've seen an article somewhere on a Laro site, which tackles the same problem. Filling up the transfer box too with EP90 should solve the problem.

Kees

On or around Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:09:35 +0100, "k.w" enlightened us thusly:

what transfer box do you know that's meant to run on 20W50? The only one I can think of would be the LT95, where the T-box and main box are a unit. Not even absolutely sure about them.

all the series run gear oil in the gearbox and T-box, and the LT230s etc also run gear oil in the T-box, although they run lighter stuff or ATF in the 5-speed main boxes.

Steve

Yes, it's the LT95 ,fitted to RRC from '70 till early eighties.Also fitted to 101, stage one. Here's the link about the lubrication:

On or around Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:00:15 +0000, steve Taylor enlightened us thusly:

ah, so I was right about the LT95 then.

I'd have thought that in a rangie a better option nowadays would be a

don't be tempted to a disco box though, as fitting same to a rangie (or, indeed, 'tother way round) is non-trivial - the box itself is the same but the shifting stuff on top isn't and neither is it a straight swap.