Prop shaft makers help

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 19:51:17 +0100, "wayne" made me spill my meths by writing:

Aside from word of mouth, try HGV repair shops, or the Yellow Pages etc for local workshops that should advertise as such.

Try:

Reco-Prop (UK) Ltd Unit 4, New Town Trading Estate Chase St Luton Bedfordshire LU1 3QZ Tel: 01582 412110

Haven't used them personally but have heard that they are pretty good.

Regards

Phil Gardiner

aflt.fan.landrover FAQ compiler:

Wayne Davies waffled on in a quite bewildering manner to produce...

Reco-Prop in Luton. Or any decent welding shop.

For my Hybrid i used a front prop on the rear and a LWB rear for the front, that way all i had to do was turn off the yoke in the lathe shorten the tube and weld it back on.

Gary

wayne wrote:

I was just going to suggest them as they're local, but I havn't used them. I will need two or three custom props making sometime next year, so let me know what they're like please.

Alex

Percys Prop is a shortened origional.. I don't have a lathe but I do have an angle grinder [1]... lots of patients and a local friendly HGV trailer builder who will weld anything that doesn't move for 5 minutes.

Percys front prop would have fouled the sump as they are a tad big on XJ engines...so I put a kink in it using a centre bearing also found on the origional donor XJ.. the centre bearing is mounted on a suitable plate welded to the bell housing crossmember and again the props shortedened by grinding off the origional seam weld and drifting the centre out of the prop...shortening and refitting.

The rear prop is too short to have any issues with balancing...the front prop again is short in sso much it's two props and currently sees little use as I've retained the IIa transfer box.

[1] I would strongly advise anyone who's not a competent engineer from attempting any diy prop mods.

Lee

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Have you any pics of the proshaft mod with a centre bearing? I'd be interested for a future conversion I'm doing..

Cheers

Alex

In this picture I was trying it for size..

.to the lower left corner you can see where the prop is fastened to the front output of the transferbox . Just above the screwdriver is the centre bearing and behind the prop can be seen one big mother of a sump.

You'll be pleased to know that the crossmember was plated such that it was again square and then the bracket as seen was seam welded onto the crossmember.

I can do a piccy of the finished product is required. It's been tested off road and there are no issues. I've also fitted FWH's to the front (must be the only stage 1 axle to ever have em fitted :-) ) to save the prop having to rotate unnecessarily and increase economy / reduce noise. That said when it is inuse it's not detectable and much quiter than the old front prop which I suspect had past it's sell by date.

Cheers

Lee D

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You don't say where you are. For us "Up North" there is Dunning and Fairbank. They have done a couple of props for me. They even turned an emergency job for a racer round in a Saturday morning. Take along your old prop, tell them how long it needs to be. It's a simple as that. Cost may depend on the condition of your prop. Expect between £50 and £100 as a very rough guide. Address is

Dunning & Fairbank Ltd Cross Green Rise Leeds West Yorkshire LS9 0SD

On or around Sat, 25 Oct 2003 19:51:17 +0100, "wayne" enlightened us thusly:

oddly, when I put the auto box in the 110, it came with a RR front shaft, which was identical with the 110 front shaft I already had - mounting the gearbox on the standard rear plates made this shaft line up. The *rear* shaft, however, was 2" short, on account of the BW transfer box being 2" shorter front-to-back than the LT230.

cut it in half and welded a big bit of scaffold-type tube to it to extend it, must get it balanced one day.

Whereabouts are you? I heard of a Propshaft lot in Neath, S. Wales.

On or around Sat, 25 Oct 2003 20:17:07 GMT, "Pete M" enlightened us thusly:

I doubt the decent welding shop can balance the shaft. I can make shafts, but they'd vibrate, like the one I mentioned does, over 60 mph.