Thread: D2 front drive shaft problem?

^^^^^^ looks surprisingly like mine that i removed last night.
time to refurb the old one with greasable joints and all should be good.

cheers
yorkie

Hey Yorkie!

let me know the balljoint part number?

Well after looking at all your posts today I decided to pull the front shaft from my D2 with 190 odd thousand km's on it.

Looked OK in there but found 1 uni joint was r/s

I rang Hardy Spicer and they quoted 3 off k5-A747 uni's at $41.44 ea.

The problem I have is I would like to replace the ball joint as well On George's photo breakdown he used a Hardy SCV-82 ball joint. Hardy Spicer say you have to modify the sealing arrangement if you use this one (George did not note this though). Hardy's are saying buy a SCV-82ANG but it is nearly double the price they say it goes straight in. I am not too worried about cost but would like to know the correct answer as living in the country I do not wish to organise the parts twice.

Can any one advise?

Cheers

Originally Posted by Piddler

Well after looking at all your posts today I decided to pull the front shaft from my D2 with 190 odd thousand km's on it.

Looked OK in there but found 1 uni joint was r/s

I rang Hardy Spicer and they quoted 3 off k5-A747 uni's at $41.44 ea.

The problem I have is I would like to replace the ball joint as well On George's photo breakdown he used a Hardy SCV-82 ball joint. Hardy Spicer say you have to modify the sealing arrangement if you use this one (George did not note this though). Hardy's are saying buy a SCV-82ANG but it is nearly double the price they say it goes straight in. I am not too worried about cost but would like to know the correct answer as living in the country I do not wish to organise the parts twice.

Can any one advise?

Cheers

Richard check your PM. I had no dramas with the SCV-82 and i'm not sure about the other part. My rebuild is nearly a year old now and still going strong.

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Cheers

George

isnt that interesting,,

the people that are supplying my new ones are freighting them up from melbourne(????), and were informed (by melbourne) that the k5lkr and the 747 were the same,,,


what price the ball joint George?

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

isnt that interesting,,

the people that are supplying my new ones are freighting them up from melbourne(????), and were informed (by melbourne) that the k5lkr and the 747 were the same,,,


what price the ball joint George?

Hi Pedro
Hardy Spicer quoted me $56 ish for the ball joint George used and I will be using.

Cheers

Originally Posted by Piddler

Hi Pedro
Hardy Spicer quoted me $56 ish for the ball joint George used and I will be using.

Cheers

That's about right for the price of the ball joint.

I had to fabricate a "special tool" to get the ball joint in. I used a piece of steel pipe ground down to sit on the outer race of the ball, yet narrow enough to fit into the socket on the cardan joint. Then just tap it gently in.

Cheers

George.

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

isnt that interesting,,

the people that are supplying my new ones are freighting them up from melbourne(????), and were informed (by melbourne) that the k5lkr and the 747 were the same,,,


what price the ball joint George?

i have dropped mine in at jmac here in sydney and they get the ball joint/centre bearing part from qld reckon about $60-70 for the part. along with the uni's provided by bundalene it should all be back together for collection next week
cheers
yorkie