Thread: Donuts.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Where is the best place to buy a suitable donut? Repco, dealer?

The usual online places. I have had a look at a couple, both the same prices, one has the centralising bush, the other has no mention of it! Both parts made in Germany.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Not keen on online purchasing, I only do it as a last resort.

Yep, same here on many items.
Too many stories of not getting what you expected to get.
But the link from by LRJim is confirmed to be 100% positive.
I've used these guys too, even tho I live about 40 mins away .. just can't be stuffed to fight Melb roadworks and traffic to get there, and work hasn't sent me out that way in all the time I've been back there.

FWIW: I had mine replaced just after I got the D1. Just the donut. I'd then done well over 100K klms(I think 120K maybe. I now have 130ish on it myself).
They never told me about the pin nor the bush, and the D1 is my first experience with donuts. Prior to that was the RRCs uni system.

I had a worn front uni in my rear prop shaft(just a half mil or so) but as I was checking stuff, I thought fix it. The donut had very light cracks in it, but not broken in any way .. just light cracking. So I thought do the whole thing .. ie. shaft.
I'm sure that I could have left it as is, and just do the front uni.

But contrary to others commenting, the uni really wore out before the donut did, in the 100K or more klms I'd done. I still have the old lightly cracked one in the rear side bins ... just in case(but I doubt I'll ever need it).

I reckon the donut is a far better system than uni. Unis do wear and break, and if you're on a drive of some kind, I can't imagine replacing one out in the field. Could do, but jeez you got to have a lot of heavy tools to do one.
And you HAVE to remove the shaft to do so. If the donut does break, and I get that they can, replacing the donut itself to keep mobile is just having the 17mm or 19mm spanners/sockets to undo the nuts/bolts, slip shaft forward, a mil replace donut, and re-do nuts bolts. maybe 15 mins of work. So donut makes more sense in that field repairs are a couple of orders of magnitude easier.

As I have a few Discos here now, I know it'll come in handy somewhere .. just in case.