Thread: Front drive shaft and uni's, 110 county

Originally Posted by wovenrovings

The salisbury unis are not larger. Just watchout as there is two different driveshaft sorts, and they take similar but not the same uni's. The one with a concertina type boot over the spline (or should have) takes the normal uni joints like most LR's. The other driveshaft has a seal held in by a nut thing with two flats on the spline. This takes a slightly different unijoint. Same diameter bearings but the distance across the cross (over bearing caps) is different. Hope this makes sense.

Dan.

Two paraphrase the above - Landrover have used two different size U-joints on 110s. Check which ones you have.

In my experience, the ones as described by Wovenrovings as having the nut with two flats is the newer style and has the male part of the sliding joint on the short bit and the smaller U-joint. The older style has the male bit on the longer part of the shaft, and has the larger U-joints, same as most Series Landrovers. They may or may not have a concertina dust cover on the joint. I would not rely on these descriptions, but either take a sample to the bearing shop, or measure the distance between the flats of the bearing cups. The tailshafts are interchangeable, so relying on the date of manufacture or the VIN is not reliable.

John

they will be 1300series and 1310series spicer joints. the bigger the number the bigger the uni.

cheers phil

Originally Posted by XSiV

from the transfer case.

thats factory! common to have almost 1/2 a turn

cheers phil

you're only looking at about $25-$30 for a uni joint for a 110

Originally Posted by discowhite

thats factory! common to have almost 1/2 a turn

cheers phil

well ok then, it's not quite half a turn but if that's normal then i guess it's ok.

it is ok isn't it?

yes.

cheers phil

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Two paraphrase the above - Landrover have used two different size U-joints on 110s. Check which ones you have.

In my experience, the ones as described by Wovenrovings as having the nut with two flats is the newer style and has the male part of the sliding joint on the short bit and the smaller U-joint. The older style has the male bit on the longer part of the shaft, and has the larger U-joints, same as most Series Landrovers. They may or may not have a concertina dust cover on the joint. I would not rely on these descriptions, but either take a sample to the bearing shop, or measure the distance between the flats of the bearing cups. The tailshafts are interchangeable, so relying on the date of manufacture or the VIN is not reliable.

John

hehe... yep, I found this out the hard way this arfternoon... picked up the uni joint, got it half fitted and then reliesed i had the woring part....

Didn't matter too much as the uni on the rear of the front shaft was pretty well siezed any way, so went and got 2 new (correct ones) and fitted....


Was pretty easy, only took bout 40mins for both..