Thread: MT82 Adapter Shaft

Originally Posted by POD

I have a mate's 110 in my shed at present, overhauling his transfer case including bushing the intermediate shaft bore. We are currently waiting on a new intermediate shaft as well as the adapter shaft upgrade kit from Ashcrofts, as his looked much like the one above so we decided it best to replace. Done about 170,000km. As mentioned earlier, the one in my 130 has done 220,000km and looked considerably less worn, lucky I guess. Will replace it next year prior to planned CSR trip.

Great to see a puma doing over 200k, maintenance is key

I've noticed my MY14 puma getting noticeably more 'clonky', so I'm planning on having a look at the drive flanges, but whilst I was underneath it this arvo sorting out some extra wiring, I noticed this.
Looks like red rust dust blowing out of a hole at the bottom of the adapter housing. Never seen it before. The splines fretting? How worried should I start getting ?



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They definitely mention this over on Defender2 as a sure sign of adaptor shaft wear

Originally Posted by DieselDan

I've noticed my MY14 puma getting noticeably more 'clonky', so I'm planning on having a look at the drive flanges, but whilst I was underneath it this arvo sorting out some extra wiring, I noticed this.
Looks like red rust dust blowing out of a hole at the bottom of the adapter housing. Never seen it before. The splines fretting? How worried should I start getting ?



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With some help I had my transfer box off Saturday and found no grease had ever been fitted to the addaptor shaft.
(MY12 with 125,000)
There was red dust as per your picture inside the extension housing.
Furtunatly mine had minimal wear so lubed it up and refitted it, others have not been as lucky.
I have found signs my transfer box has been removed previously so don't know if the addaptor shafts have been changed but with no grease I doubt it.
There is few reports of complete failures of the splines so I wouldn't think twice about getting it looked at.

Originally Posted by alien

With some help I had my transfer box off Saturday and found no grease had ever been fitted to the addaptor shaft.
(MY12 with 125,000)
There was red dust as per your picture inside the extension housing.
Furtunatly mine had minimal wear so lubed it up and refitted it, others have not been as lucky.
I have found signs my transfer box has been removed previously so don't know if the addaptor shafts have been changed but with no grease I doubt it.
There is few reports of complete failures of the splines so I wouldn't think twice about getting it looked at.

Speaking from "experience" unfortunately, but that would be very good advice.
Pickles.

Thanks Kyle and Pickles.

Pickles when you had yours let go, which dealership did it go to? The one beginning with U or M?

I'm planning a big cross country trip later this year and the puma is coming up for its second service so will see if I can get them to have a look at it in the interests of not having to expensively recover me from the middle of nowhere

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It must be a Land Rover thing. My 2008 vogue had no grease on the transmission output shaft. The result was years of fretting corrosion wore away the output and receiving spline until it failed. Rust dust was confined to a cavity between the transmission and transfer box.

I would push very hard for them to inspect and lubricate the spline.

Originally Posted by DieselDan

Thanks Kyle and Pickles.

Pickles when you had yours let go, which dealership did it go to? The one beginning with U or M?

I'm planning a big cross country trip later this year and the puma is coming up for its second service so will see if I can get them to have a look at it in the interests of not having to expensively recover me from the middle of nowhere

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It went to ULR, and they did a great job.
Pickles.