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    Front Prop Shaft Interference

    So with my Rangie up on the hoist installing the front locker I was checking a few things out and noticed that with the front end at full droop the grease nipple on the front prop shaft hits the removable cross member.

    My initial thought was to 'massage' the cross member a bit to give it some clearance, but thinking about it further, is there any reason that I couldn't just flip the prop shaft so that the slip joint is at the diff end instead of the transfer case end? that would move the grease nipple away from the cross member. The shaft itself has about 5mm of clearance at full droop.

    It looks like the D2 shafts with the double cardan joints run that way, and it looks to me like it would help any water and muck fall 'out' of the slip joint instead of 'in' to the slip joint, albeit a bit closer to the water and muck to start with.

    Thoughts?

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    The stock front prop shaft on a RRC has a rubber boot with hose clamps over the slip joint to keep stuff out.

    Most likely reason the shaft is so close to the cross member at droop would be that caster correction bushes have been fitted and the snout of the front diff points down lower as a result.

    DL

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    I have seen the type with the 'accordion' type boot but mine doesn't have that, just a rubber seal around the splines. TBH I prefer it that way as the boot cant fill up with water, greasing it regularly should keep the muck out.

    No castor correction bushes, was the original 3 ring metalastic bushes but now swapped out to Superpro. The reason for the extra droop is the longer shocks (and yes i have longer brake lines to accommodate).

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    The other thing you can do is get (or copy) one of the tubular cross members that were used with the 727 equipped RRC's.

    Gives about 30mm extra clearance to the propshaft.

    There's one on my POS atm till I get rid of the caster correction bushes that came with the arms attached to the new front diff.

    DL

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