[DS-ZOOK]

I am looking at doing a manual hub conversion on my jimny, buying the adapter from BenT just wondering if anyone has any experience with these no name things
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-pairs-Manual- ... %3ASamurai

cheers

[Reubs]

They look like Vitara hubs - not Sierra which the BenT kit's advertisement calls for.

For that price you could probably buy 2 pairs of secondhand ones, or maybe even a pair from an expensive Suzuki shop.

Hubs are very robust and easily stripped, cleaned and reassembled like new. They almost never fail and personally I would never ever consider buying new ones. Certainly no need to buy any from overseas - they sell all the time on sites like this one.

[Gwagensteve]

^ this.

Aisin factory hubs generally only ever fail though lack of maintenance.

(I lie, I just remembered I have a hub thats frozen in the "lock" position on Piggles. I had just broken the hub bolts though when I discovered this, so the shock load though it when the bolts failed was massive. I'm pretty confident I'll get it back working.)

anyways, they're crazy strong. I'd stay away from copies, especially at that money.

[pete_79]

Yep and you can put up a 'I want it' ad asking for a pair of manual locking hubs and get no replies.

My BenT kit is still sitting in the box waiting for hubs.
I was surprised that there wasn't hundreds of pairs of hubs floating around with how many diffs get stripped and swapped around here.
One day I might get keen to go for a drive and get ripped off by my local Suzuki wrecker.

[ozzycouch]

Mr Gwagon is on to it, here is a factory hub after a playing with a rock, then cleaned up and working again.

[DS-ZOOK]

Thanks guys, looks like ill be trying to find myself a set of sierra hubs