I've worked on a lot of different types of vehicles and I've never seen a tail-shaft bolted to the flange without nuts.
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I've worked on a lot of different types of vehicles and I've never seen a tail-shaft bolted to the flange without nuts.
Yeah I will get some nuts tomorrow
The flange is threaded yes? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Marty90
Just saying,never seen it done like that,Only with Nylock nuts or nuts and spring washers. Wonder why they went to the trouble of cutting the thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bohica
Prop shafts are prone to vibration and anything that reduces the possibility of bolts coming undone and the flange uncoupling has to be good.
Cut threads can wear, you can replace worn bolts and nuts, it's much more expensive to replace a worn thread in a specially machined flange.
It looks like the bolt in the 4 o'clock position has already started to undo. Unless they never put it in fully when the shaft was fitted...Quote:
Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies
Probably not enough room for nuts , if it was mine I'd make the bolts shorter and use medium strength thread locker. Exposed threads might be OK for on road....... Then again if it was mine I would've stayed with double cardan.
Hmm, it doesn't look like it's out of phase like a 90/110/130/D1 shaft either ?
Land Rover set the single uni shafts up out of phase to cancel the vibes.
An old mate of mine with a 110 didn't realise that until an old driveshaft bloke pointed it out to him when he had the front prop bebuilt. Commented the 110 Isuzu was a bit smoother with the uni's out of phase, and he was an ex-Land Rover engineer ! :angel:
Upon a closer inspection I can see the tcase flange has been re-drilled new holes. It was already like this before I went to this shop to built and install this new propshaft. (My 'original' double-cardan propshaft was already modified by a previous owner - Why would someone do that??)...
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...015/11/403.jpg
Also I was able to see that the bolts ARE NOT undoing, the 'exposed thread' is actually washers:
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...015/11/404.jpg
So they tapped the holes because they're hard up against the transfer case flange and nuts wouldn't fit, this is the modification you mentioned.The more I look at it the more I don't like it.Hate to sound negative but some things on a vehicle you don't take chances with, steering is one,brakes another and I'd put this in that category.I'd be putting this one down to experience and getting the right prop-shaft fitted.