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Cardan Propshaft (Scorpion?) UJ replacement

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Eeyore:

--- Quote from: wizard on September 04, 2008, 15:03:43 ---Hi
I think i paid £120 for a full rebuild.

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What was included in that? Always interested in cheaper places.  :cool:

JDB:
Eyeore - thanks - great advice and always good to learn more.

Shaft joint is actually not too bad - its pretty filthy and covered in grease and will probably survive a little longer, the local garage has done a grand job of dismantling it for me and they have a bearing "ninja" coming to have a look to see if he can source the "UJ with a hole through it" to then rebuild.  Its an interesting exercise and should be a good lesson to me (and others) to be more generous with the grease gun  - but then it could just be anno domini anyway.

Range Rover Blues:

--- Quote from: Eeyore on September 04, 2008, 08:32:30 ---A cardan unit is a single universal joint (two yokes, one cruciform).

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That's a HOOKE'S joint.  When I worked in the motor industry, a Cardan joint was the double UJ/CV type joint.

But then I suppose it gets called different things in different places, like a Birmingham screwdriver.

JDB:
Hmm - done some research for Hookes-
Patent here - http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3986238.html
Description here - http://unicopter.com/B274.html
And here - http://www.4wdonline.com/A.hints/Universal.html

Doesn't help get it repaired - but does educate me!

Range Rover Blues:
The third one doesn't look identical to the one you pictured above, so perhaps it's not a stage 1 V8 prop after all :-k

Propshaft specialist.  I'm told these aren't the srt of joints you want to takle at home anyway.

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