Thread: I Need Advice about Front Propellor shaft please

Hi can anyone help out our front prepollor shaft needs replacing we have ordered the part but it wont arrive for about 10 days in the intrim if we take off the front propeller shaft is the car still driveable onroad? As it is a very annoying clunking noise that my husband said is very lose and we are worried it may fall off and we are suppose to drive from gold coast to sydney in three days time for a funeral. Any help or advice please is very appreciated thanks in advance

If you remove the front drive shaft, you can then drive the vehicle if you lock the centre diff (push high/low range lever fully across to left.

The vehicle will be safe to drive on the road at normal speeds, but you might, at first find the handling a little bit different because it is now 2 wheel drive (like most others on the road) instead of 4 wheel drive. You will soon get used to it, but be careful in the wet until you are comfortable with its new handling (corners and braking).

Normally problems with drive shafts just need new universal joints (common Spicer part) and don't require a new drive shaft. Much cheaper to replace uni joints. Depending what seal/boot is on the slip joint it may need replacing. If splines in slip joint are badly worn, a new drive shaft may work out cheaper than having the slip joint replaced. Any mechanic should be able to remove drive shaft replace both uni joints and refit drive shaft in less than 2 hours.

Edit: Driving with a bad uni joint is not a good idea as they can let go at any time and if travelling at speed when it happens it can be extremely dangerous. So remove the drive shaft and lock the centre diff.