"Paul - xxx" <notcheckedever@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> 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.
Small price to pay for a good day out. :-)
>
> 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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