Oily wrote:
> A
> compromise is then made and the yokes at each end of the front prop
> are usually arranged approximately 60/30 degrees which works quite
> well but it has nothing to do with the LENGTH of the prop.
>
> I suspect that as you are introducing too much grease into the joint
> on assembly, you are probably unseating the seals and allowing the
> ingress of dirt of the abrasive sort when offroading. It's not wise
> to pump in too much grease when servicing either, just 'until you can
> hear the bacon frying' as they say.
I think this is hitting the nail on the head.
Just took the prop off and looked at it properly and it all looks fine,
balance weights as described, yokes (mis) aligned as described with no
chafing or wearing, simply one side of a UJ gone a tad rusty looking.
The side of the UJ that's failed had big (marble size) blobs of grease
and 'muck' on the outside, like a hardened paste, but the rollers are
brown with rust !!! I suspect Manbys' mud did the deed, it was like
wet cement and dried to a very hard crust everywhere else.
Phew .. so it's likely to be my cack-handedness doing it to the UJ's,
It'll teach me.
PS, big up to the Difflock people for their prop-shaft tool ... (
http://shop.difflock.com/difflock-propshaft-tool-p-29.html
) ... what a
difference that made, eight bolts undone in 8 minutes and prop off
without having to move the thing back and forwards, a bloody revelation
and highly commended to anyone doing any work to their propshafts.
--
Paul - xxx
'96/'97 Landrover Discovery 300 Tdi 'Big and Butch'
Dyna Tech Cro-Mo comp "When I feel fit enough'
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