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The last few months have been tough. Moving house, dealing with some significant health issues and ‘over committing’. I have written to individual customers who may have been directly affected but for everyone else you will I hope be pleased to hear I am catching up.

Anyone who has enquired will have heard me say ‘Demand outstrips supply’ this is partly due to me working on my own, in retirement, while all the above is happening. But I am also significantly affected by availability of subframes suitable for refurbishment.

I have had to make some pricing adjustments to compensate for the increasing costs on my supply side, I have kept them as low as possible.

To compound it all, PayPal have just closed my account, with customers money in it and they have told me they are holding it for 180 days so for now all orders will have to be paid by BACS direct to my account. Sorry.

There is good news, I am building a dedicated workshop to remanufacture and fabricate all the parts we need and I will also be able to take a limited number of cars in for service.

Thank you all for your continued support and understanding, as always, I am here to help.

Steve.

As of this post all business has now moved to our new location in South West Wales.

We still do not have a working workshop so we are only working on orders that have been placed and paid for. Normal service will be resumed in the spring when the new garage has been built.

If you are in the area drop me a line and I will put the kettle on.

Steve’s Steel
Maesteg
Llanybydder
Carmarthenshire
SA40 9RN

See you all soon.

Stephen.

Time for an update!

The move is well under way, but not complete. I have some limited stock and I am still processing the remanufacture of some more subframes and hubs but not yet up to speed.

The stock that is showing in the shop is up to date, anything can be ordered but backorders will be notified at the time of ordering and you should expect a few weeks delay.

My usual policy on back orders is to supply in the order that your orders were placed here so if you know you need one in the next 6 weeks please get your order in now.

In the mean time I am working on smaller projects including a Brembo 4 pot upgrade kit for earlier cars, in particular the TD6, that had the smaller brakes.

Stay tuned for further updates!

Thanks for your interest.

Steve,

I probably have to many already but this one is about 11 months away. That’s plenty of time to make a plan 🤣

I need to do a road trip (or 5) in 2025 and this will be one of them;

Carbage Run England and Wales 2025.

It does mean I have to build a car, and to do that I have to build a workshop so the challenge is not trivial. Stay tuned to see how I manage ( or not ).

Please read the following, it affects your orders.

During September 2024 I am moving from my workshop in Ripon to South Wales where I have a plot of land to build a NEW workshop!

Read between the lines and you will realise that while I am building the new workshop I will be working on the drive 🙂

If you have already placed an order it is being processed and will be shipped by about 10th September at the latest.

If you are placing an order in September please be prepared for a delay, at the time of writing I have in stock the following available to ship;

1 off KHE500050 rear subframe
1 off KHE500100 rear subframe
1 off KGB000074 front subframe

Sorry to hold up your projects and repairs but money and logistics are not working in my favour.

The good news is that once the move is complete the opperation should be much smoother!

Thank you for your support and for your orders!

Any questions please email me steve@stevessteel.co.uk and remember to include your number so I can call you back.

Steve.

The GM 5L40-E transmission was fitted by BMW to the M57 powered Range Rover L322 between 2002 and 2005. The gearbox was built by General Motors in a factory in Farnce.

It is designed for service in vehicles up to 4000 lb (1814 kg) GVWR and in service was mated to a final drive ratio of 3.08:1 in the L322.

The 5L40-E had been designed for 1.8–3.6 L engines with a maximum of 250 ft·lbf (340 N·m) of torque. It was also used in the BMW 5 series E39 mated to the M57D30 engines. The M57D30 rated torque output is 390/410Nm

Why is this interesting? Well the TD6 L322 in its stock form produced 175bhp and 390Nm or 288 ft·lbf of torque so we can assume that any TD6 L322 has the over rated GM gearbox.

How hard can we push it… I dont know but I am sure we will find out one day!