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hi all, following the demise of my daughters prop shaft on her Rocky (2.8 TD) it looks as if we have been able to locate a 2nd hand one, so it's muggins here who has to take the old one off and put the replacement on !!!!.
the motor is parked outside the house on the side of the road, i dont have a hoist or a pit, in the dark i had a look underneath, primarily to measure the length of the dammed thing, but it didnt look easy, the nuts seem to be pretty dammed tight as well. LOL.
So should i be able to do this job on my own, on my back underneath the monstrous dirty thing ???, BTW I am 60 years old and going bald and grey LOL.
I do have some axle stands and a couple of cheapo Car ramps to assist me, i also have a 14mm ring spanner and open ended 14mm spanner, so do you think a half inch drive 14mm socket would be a better option, should the nuts be VERY VERY tight, is it allowed to hit the end of the ring spanner with a hammer ?????.
come on now i need some encouragement, a local garage wants £50 for an hours labour to do it.
tim
prop shaft
This is an easy job a little heat will help the tight nuts
i did mine in my drive on all 4 wheels with no ramps or stands.
i would also check the uv joint on the old prop as this was all i had to replace at a cost of about £26 from a local auto parts shop
For the tight nuts, use 3
For the tight nuts, use 3 spanners. Hole the bolt head with one spanner. Put the ring part of ring/open end spanner on the nut. Now use the ring part of another spanner on the open end part of the first spanner as an extra lever. Use quality spanners that fit properly, not cheap junk ones, as sure as heck they will round off the nut. Take careful note which way the bolts go through the bolt holes. And use some sort of thread locker on the threads when reinstalling. Dropping a tailshaft at speed isnt pretty.
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Growing old is compulsary, growing up isnt.
MUD MAKES EXCELLENT TOOTHPASTE.
I use billion dollar satellites, to find Tupperware.
Please visit http://groups.msn.com/AussieDaihatsuRocky/_whatsnew.msnw
All views and advice offered are my own, from my ow
Prop shaft job
I should say that going bald can only help as it is far easier to wash bits of crumbling underseal and dirty grease off a nice smooth scalp than out of a full head of hair !! I am 34 and going bald but the prop shaft replacement is still an easy job. Four nuts on each end, I always find a pair of slim 14mm ring spanners are easier for shifting the tight nuts than a socket. You may need to rotate the prop after each nut to comfortably get at the next one. Don't let it fall on you - its bloody heavy. Easier with the car on its wheels than up on ramps - your arms will get pretty tired very quickly lying on your back and working at full stretch, although to rotate the prop you will need one of the wheels off the ground. Grease up the new one before you put it on so you can see that clean grease is coming out of all the UJ bearing cups and the sliding joint in the middle. Last thing - if the sliding joint slides apart (if you pick it up by one end for instance) the UJs must be aligned so that they move in the same plane as each other before you put it back together. Its really easy honest, shouldn't take longer than 1 hour at the most.
Alastair.