Thread: D2 Front Prop Shaft!!!!

As you have a TD5, I would suggest that the 'cricket' noise is not going to be your prop shaft, especially as it's noisy under acceleration.

I think you have the dreaded warped exhaust manifold. Check the studs/nuts - you might find a broken one.

Originally Posted by Scouse

As you have a TD5, I would suggest that the 'cricket' noise is not going to be your prop shaft, especially as it's noisy under acceleration.

I think you have the dreaded warped exhaust manifold. Check the studs/nuts - you might find a broken one.

I was thinking it could be that also, there was a similar thread recently about this (MickG i think?).
I just pulled my front prop shaft out and the DC Joint is most definately shagged
Has anyone else had their shaft rebuilt by Range Rove?
I'll check my exhaust manifold tomorrow after work, i can't take too much bad news in one friday evening!
I have to drive the disco to work tomorrow so i'll soon tell if the noise is gone with the front shaft out.

I'm with Scouse. Having had 2 Cardans go, they don't make a noise at all..maybe a little vibration if you're lucky.

The noise you describe is exactly the same as mine with the warped manifold which is being done next week

I should add here that the guys at Range Rov are excellent!
They recently rebuilt my transmission and although there were problems(not their fault as it worked out), they never backed away from getting it right even at their own expense.

Mine was chirping on and off basically only under load.Then started chirping non-stop.1 of the unis in the double were red hot the other not.NO NOTICABLE VIBRATIONS!!!!
Andrew

Originally Posted by LandyAndy

Mine was chirping on and off basically only under load.Then started chirping non-stop.1 of the unis in the double were red hot the other not.NO NOTICABLE VIBRATIONS!!!!
Andrew

Sounds exactly like what mine is doing, as i mentioned, i just pulled the shaft out and the uni closest to the transfer(in the DC) has had it. I can count myself lucky as there were NO vibrations at all, just the bloody crickets.

Well, this was my experience from several weeks ago.

Third party parts suppliers around Perth- $750 new, not sure if uni's were greasable or not.

One supplier had off the self reconditioned units for $350, again not sure if greasable or not.

My local drive shaft repairer rebuilt mine for ~$280 with greasable units.

Part No.s if your interested in going down the DIY route are listed below and if you want some detailed instructions on how to go about it look here but disregard the part No.s given in this guide, they are American I think, any way they do not seem to correspond to part No.s for Australian suppliers.

D2 Drive Shaft Rebuild
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Toyo universal joint - K5L4R
Ball Joint Repair Kit - Hardy Spicer SCV-82A

You should be aware the ball joint repair kit listed above does not have the correct size oil seal for the ball joint housing in the D2 drive shaft. It is too small and you will have to salvage the one from your old joint so make sure you don't damage it on removal. Hardy Spicer could not supply an oil seal of the same dimensions removed from the original ball joint.

I got the impression from talking to the guy selling the so called reconditioned shafts that this was the case with his units also. He said - "you can't buy the ball joints" which I later took to mean after sourcing one - you can't get an exact replacement part and therefore the ball joints in the reconditioned units were not really 'reconditioned'.

My advice - go the reconditioned unit unless you like fiddling about with DIY but ask some questions about whether the ball joint has in fact actually been replaced.

Well bugger me !
I just logged on to post a thread about the front drive shaft and its happened to some one else as well.
I know how you feel Phill , I too drive my D2 as a work vehicle and had three towns and as many jobs on Friday, noticed a bit of a squeel after the first town ( 100ks ) then by the next town it had turned to a bit of a rattle, only on acceleration, and fortunately I had to go via my house so I checked out the uni's on the front, and the one at the double end was stuffed.
I have had no warning of this going so I feel I was lucky to catch it before it took out my gear box and came through the floor to tickle my feet.
Fortunately the central diff lock can be manually engaged so I could take out the front drive shaft and continue on my way.
I have done another 300ks since but I have to be very gentle changing gear because there is a lot of back lash ? when changing or decelerating. ( don't want to stuff the back one as well )
Any way I have been quoted $ 770 for a new one and not recomended to recondition the old one.
Bit disapointed only 168,000ks and replacing the uni joint. Thought it would go longer than that.