Ulysses

sniper wrote: The video's are great, it's good to see how impressed the Landy drivers are..... It goes up that hill like it's being pulled, sounds great Riccy.

Bummer about the damage, shafts ain't cheap.... There's a firm in Nottingham that makes shafts, I can't remember the name but happy to have a drive by if it will help. I picked up some truck shafts for a buddy once, they had just got back from hardening. Looked to be very serious gear...

Mine sounds quite similar to yours but is lacking in the guts department lol......

sniper

Thanks John, the others were enjoying it almost as much as me :laugh:

I would be interested in your nottingham shaft maker. Ive spoken to a couple today...

HUN wrote:
That shaft is part of the floating rear axle kit which is not in stock in Russia at the moment unfortunately. Where from you'll get replacement? Do you know an alternative supplier?

Correct. Andrey says he has no stock of the shorter shaft (the other longer one is ok). Likley end of the year before he can supply a replacement. I also learned that the shafts he supplies are not 'HD' shafts, no surprise really with the price of his kit being so low.

Ive called a couple of places today about having some made in the UK and the best price so far is a Birmingham company quoting £190+vat for each shaft. Thats for a heat treated shaft made from high grade material (they did say what but it was over my head a bit, good for 250hp apparently). 4 weeks from order to delivery usually. Probably an expensive option, but I can't see Andrey's spares being a lot cheaper by the time they are posted from the far side of Russia.

Low range off-road are in Fresno California.They list solid tube pinion spacers.

sales@lowrangeoffroad.com

Roger

wilsondriveshafts.co.uk They are reasonably local if you need anything ferrying about.

sniper

Many messages and phone calls this week about getting some quality shafts made. Settled on Northwest propshafts as recommended by Brett (Maverick on here). They wernt the cheapest, nor the most expensive. I chose them because they would offer a warranty on them, knew what they were talking about and were patient enough to explain it to me in simple terms. They also asked all the right questions about the car. So now I need to send them the existing shafts to measure along with a sample of the side gears in the diff and a hub to use for testing purposes.

So today it was pull the shafts and scrounge out some diff side gears from the scrap pile...

This is the two front and rear diff centres from the grey jimny. A quick chat on our group whatsapp told me that the one on the left is for the rear. Confirmed this with a spare rear shaft and it fits (rear is 26 spline, front is 22). Interestingly the rear side gears can be interchanged with the front for those wishing to use 26 spline front shafts (stronger)...


With the side gears out I tried them on the hub end of the shafts and discovered that the shafts are the same spline count at both ends. Happy days! :laugh: That should make the machining process easier and possibly cheaper, fingers crossed


Next was to pull the diff out again as it was still leaking from the pinion seal I had ordered new bearings, seal and crush tube to redo it all. Once I had it apart I realized the bearing pullers I have wouldn't work to remove the old bearing race's and also I dont have the correct mandrel for my press to refit them. Old bearings cleaned/inspected and they seem sound so will probably reuse them. Seal to replace obviously, but the crush collar puzzled me a little. The new one is exactly the same size as the one removed. I did look into the solid one Roger mentioned, but I can only see lowrangeoffroad as a supplier and they are in America so shipping is extortionate.





So its read the FSM a bit later and stick it all back together tomorrow, hopefully with no leaks

I bought my spacer from Summit Racing and the total cost incl. shipping £37.10 back in December 2017.

Roger