Thread: Front drive shaft

It sounds like we all have an old propshaft in the garage waiting to be rebuilt.... one day. Pretty sure if the day ever comes we'll just go buy another. And then we'll have 2 in the garage.. 😂🤣. Just because......... alomg with our old springs and fuel regulators.....

Originally Posted by rick130

Including the centring bearing assembly ?

Most of those need to be pulled apart, greased and reassembled.

The Tom Woods ones and one or two others are externally greasable.

Do you still have to remove the T/W shaft to do the centre bearing.
Why i ask is when i bought my car 4 years ago the f/shaft had been replaced with ? Which can be fully greased but i have to remove it to grease the hidden centre bearing nipple
This is a trap for new players if they are not aware of that hidden grease nipple

Originally Posted by rangieman

Do you still have to remove the T/W shaft to do the centre bearing.
Why i ask is when i bought my car 4 years ago the f/shaft had been replaced with ? Which can be fully greased but i have to remove it to grease the hidden centre bearing nipple
This is a trap for new players if they are not aware of that hidden grease nipple

In the Deefer you pull the floor out !

Sooo much easier.

You could probably pick if it's a TW shaft as

a) it uses 1310 Spicer uni's, not the 1300 size that L/R use

b) Tom uses a blue coating on the splines

Originally Posted by rick130

Including the centring bearing assembly ?

Most of those need to be pulled apart, greased and reassembled.

The Tom Woods ones and one or two others are externally greasable.

Yes, 3 grease nipples. 2 on front double cardjun & 1 on the rear of the front prop shaft

Originally Posted by rick130

In the Deefer you pull the floor out !

Sooo much easier.

You could probably pick if it's a TW shaft as

a) it uses 1310 Spicer uni's, not the 1300 size that L/R use

b) Tom uses a blue coating on the splines

Maybe mine is as it has the blue coating also the unis appear different not that iv`e taken notice .But i still drop the shaft to do that hidden grease nipple

Originally Posted by John_D2

Yes, 3 grease nipples. 2 on front double cardjun & 1 on the rear of the front prop shaft

Mine has 3 on the D/C and 1 on the other uni at the other end of the shaft and one on the spline so 5 on the front shaft

I rebuilt mine with grea sable unis from hardy spicer was pretty easy,centre ball needed a bit of mcguyvering but all good. There is already a hole in the Land Rover shaft behind the centre ball that possibly could be drilled out and tapped to accept a 90 degree grease nipple still have to drop the transfer side of the drive shaft to grease it. I will look into it when I rebuild mine with the gks or whatever the original brand uni were as the HD hardy spicer unis aren't greasing freely and never have even after a heap of stuffing around with them trying to purge grease through them.

Originally Posted by Mr Simon.

I rebuilt mine with grea sable unis from hardy spicer was pretty easy,centre ball needed a bit of mcguyvering but all good. There is already a hole in the Land Rover shaft behind the centre ball that possibly could be drilled out and tapped to accept a 90 degree grease nipple still have to drop the transfer side of the drive shaft to grease it. I will look into it when I rebuild mine with the gks or whatever the original brand uni were as the HD hardy spicer unis aren't greasing freely and never have even after a heap of stuffing around with them trying to purge grease through them.

This is the flush mount grease nipple there is not enough room for a right angle nipple behind the centre bearing.