Thread: Defender double cardan front propshaft

Originally Posted by Kidbeen

Early this morning I sent off an email enquiring about a Tom Woods unit to Off-Road Konection - Your off-road part, accessory, wheel & tyre speciality store. No reply yet. They all say on their web sites 'contact us' but when you do they do not get back to you. Seems to be a trend not to reply and I wonder why they even bother putting 'contact us' on their web pages.

Why did you contact that company - they might have standard Tom Woods stuff but they do not make them.

Contact Tom Woods Driveshafts through their website. They respond

Tom Wood's Custom Drive Shafts - Tom Woods Custom Drive Shafts Custom Driveshafts Specialist

I spoke to.Tom. Great bloke. Uber helpful. I told him Jeep Connection had a d2 in stock and be suggested it would be about the same price and quicker to buy from them (he would know they would restock). So I did. Great service from Jeep Connection too.

Cheers

I crawled under to have a look at the front propeller shaft today. Have been researching tailshaft phasing and vibration on the web and it appears that my front propeller shaft (1995 Defender 130) is out of phase. Is that normal? If you want a photo I could crawl back under to get one.

Originally Posted by Kidbeen

I crawled under to have a look at the front propeller shaft today. Have been researching tailshaft phasing and vibration on the web and it appears that my front propeller shaft (1995 Defender 130) is out of phase. Is that normal? If you want a photo I could crawl back under to get one.

Yes!

If it was lined up in phase it'd vibrate.

This was Land Rover's cheap arse way of not needing a DC front shaft, but it works.

The front pinion points up at the t/case basically in line with the shaft.
If the pinion angle matched the t/case output shaft angle we'd run the unis in phase.

Some info already noted...

*Yes Defender front shaft is out of phase (as in the CV joints arent in line with each end.
*A heavy duty DC front shaft is available from British Parts of Utah-Land Range Rover Sport LR4 LR3 LR2 Discovery Defender Freelander Genuine OEM Accessories Parts
*Have used many of these on the Discovery 2 and Defenders upto a TD5 and are bullet proof.
*Change Defender front output flange to a Discovery 2 and it will bolt on.
*Using the Discovery 2 heavy duty shaft keeps things stock within normal available parts.
*A Defender can suffer the rumbling overrun vibration after a suspension replacement/lift.
*Cant really be used on a Defender TDCi (2007 onwards) as the transfer case sits 65mm further back.

Daz, Tom Wood can supply his DC shaft with a Deefer flange on the DC coupling so it's a straight bolt on, no need to change to a D2 output flange.

Jeep Konection said to let them know what I require and they can get it in from Tom Woods for me.

On the other hand, Tom Woods said he can send one to me direct. He would need to know freight details and mentioned a freight forwarding agent, which I do not have. What is the best way of having it shipped from the US and I wonder what cost would be involved?

Maybe it could be cheaper from Jeep Konection as it would be sent in a bulk order to them.

Anyone with an opinion or advice?

Tom used UPS both times I was sent a shaft and UPS ****ed it up even though it was correctly addressed, the first one ended up in Austria.....