Serviced it on Sunday, and whilst under there when draining oil .. so easy with the quick drain plug! .. got bored and checked a few items.
Rear prop uni joint had about 5mm slack. Time to change. No time on Sunday tho, so had to do three commute trips between then and yesterday.
When removing prop, then became more obvious that rotoflex was also looking a bit sad too. Quite a few cracks.
I already had(pre emptive) unijoints, and I have two spare donuts for just in case purposes, but not the spigots parts.
So did uni and used one of the spare donuts, and now vibrations seem a touch worse .. so when I next have the chance I'll get a new rotoflex and spigotty bits and pieces for it too.
For now, it'll have to do.
I have been thinking about doing the conversion from donut to uni(read others thoughts on each side of the argument), but uni's are such a PITA to replace, by comparison to the donut system .. so donut stays.
Donut did 100K klms, but it looks like chaps I used to get it done didn't do the spigot and bush .. just the rubber.
Arthur.
'99 D1 300Tdi Auto
'03 D2 Td5 Auto
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