Hello from the US!

Can anyone identify the upper front strut support bearing ? It is an SKF piece but I would like to know the SKF part number and/or if a replacement exists
perhaps in another brand of ball bearing. Having some difficulty finding this bearing here in the US. Thanking you in advance.

These were made from pure unobtainium for ages. Rimmers have now
either had some made or sourced the correct bearing.

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The bearing, I believe, is new stock.

Any pics of your US SD1? I'm seriously tempted to get one shipped
back here

Hi Chris - thank you for your reply. I have since ordered the bearing from Rimmer because I never received a reply from SKF, the original maker of the item. Once I get the Rimmer piece and remove the old bearing, I plan on taking the old bearing to a large local bearing supply house to see if they can obtain something that reasonably matches ( for future use).

Sorry but I don't have a digital camera or I would be happy to send a photo of my NAS SD1. It's the tumeric yellow color and an automatic. They were all series one cars ( 1980s only), with sealed beam headlamps installed in place of the British halogen types. The engines are the low compression version but with efi installed. The efi setup is very similar to what appeared on the Vitesse model a few years later. They all had catalytic convertors and were intended to run on unleaded fuel only.

Thank you again for your reply, Glenn Los Angeles, California USA

Glenn, good to hear of another NADA SD1 being cherished. Turmeric
is a great 1970s colour, don't you think? NADA cars do appear on
eBay quite regularly, good ones seem to go for about $3000 though
what looked like a mint one didn't reach reserve of over $6000 last
week! Numbers imported are as low as 800, though there do seem
to be quite a lot left so I wonder if the higher figure of 2000 is more
likely the number sold in the US and Canada.

Hi Chris - thank you for your reply. I have since ordered the bearing from Rimmer because I never received a reply from SKF, the original maker of the item. Once I get the Rimmer piece and remove the old bearing, I plan on taking the old bearing to a large local bearing supply house to see if they can obtain something that reasonably matches ( for future use).

Sorry but I don't have a digital camera or I would be happy to send a photo of my NAS SD1. It's the tumeric yellow color and an automatic. They were all series one cars ( 1980s only), with sealed beam headlamps installed in place of the British halogen types. The engines are the low compression version but with efi installed. The efi setup is very similar to what appeared on the Vitesse model a few years later. They all had catalytic convertors and were intended to run on unleaded fuel only.

Thank you again for your reply, Glenn Los Angeles, California USA

Chris - well the colour took some getting used to. I bought a new SD1
back in 1980 ( all white) and made the serious mistake of selling it in 1990 with only 30K miles on the clock. The character who bought it proceeded to smash the car up and it was junked in 1995. It made me sick - I never would have sold the car had I known what it's fate was going to be. I bought the tumeric car several years ago and have been restoring it slowly as finances permit. Cosmetically, the car is great but I have had to do a lot of "delayed mechanical maintenance" to it. I just about have it done now. The SD1s sure twist heads here among the Land Rover/Range Rover crowd. I get asked all the time where I can buy one like that from those people. I tell them they are about 25 years too late. They can't believe the car is as old as that !!

If I find out more about the strut bearing, I will post to the forum later.

Cheers, Glenn