Tape measures on standby! I'm trying to build a list of all the standard LR propshafts so that people (OK, mainly me ) can find a stock propshaft to suit rather than having to crawl under all their mate's vehicles with tape measures in the hope of finding something that will fit.

So far, from the front of the green bibles, I have accumulated these below. All measured at rest (centre of the sliding joint) and I'm not convinced the mm/inches conversion is correct - but it's copied straight from the book! Might explain LR's engineering "tolerances"

Series 1:
86, 88, 107, 109 Front: 654mm / 23.812"
86 & 88 Rear: 554mm / 21.812"
107 & 109 Rear: 1087mm / 42.812"

Series 3:
4cyl Front - 604.8 mm / 23.812"
6cyl Front - 693.7 mm / 27.312"
88" Rear - 554.0 mm / 21.812"
109" 4cyl Rear - 1042.9 mm / 41.062"
109" 6cyl Rear - 955.7 mm / 37.625"

Any measurement is good - but if anyone has the green bible for other models you might find it written in there in the tech data section?

is it worth adding in slip joint lengths as well? think all the above are only 2" slip

just what I was thinking yesterday. Idealy the max and min length of each propshaft would be handy. Also additional detail such as special models, double cardan, high angle etc. would be very usefull. Also which uj size it is.

I ended up using a 88" rear prop at the back and a 90" rearprop at the front of my coil sprung 88". I found these by walking on the old sodbury sortout with a tape measure.

I cant be very helpfull with creating this list at te moment, cause my landy is about 100 miles away from me!

Daan

Good point Rob - whatever info people can post will be helpful.

I could be wrong but last time i changed my Series 1 86" the front and rear were the same length!
86" and 88" certainly arent the same as one has an extra 2" in it.

Right I've ad me bath now and can be more usefull!

86" front and rear are the same as 88" rear
88" fronts are longer due to the extra 2" in the wheel base is in the front (to allow for a smelly oil burner thing).

I think this is great idea to log these dimmensions, how are you going to make them easily findable?
When ever I return to Forum I can never find stuff again!

I've just come to a halt trying to change the bushes on the Panard rod on the Hybrid (used the tip on here for removing bushes works great cheers) Early V8, 6 bolt axle tubes and a 4 speed manual, so I figure they are early RR bushes. Pulled the old ones out and nope the new ones are too small a diameter!

Hopefully if there is enough goo technical info in the thread it'll end up in the tech archive

I did wonder about the 86/88 lengths but they're what's in the (albeit badly scanned) green bible I've got! If someone wants to add real-life measurements it'd be interesting to see who's right

Some more results:

110 300TDi Commercial 1997:
Front: 635mm
Rear: 1100mm

Range Rover V8 4-speed Auto 1986:
Front: 610mm
Rear 890mm

Both measured on-vehicle with average levels of random junk in the back

Looked in the green bible for the disco, and it dosen't give prop lengths unfortunatly. I will have a go with a tape measure next time I am uner there though.

Mark

Some Land Rover oddities

Top one is for a Salisbury front axled vehicle (Defender or Series I'm not sure)

Bottom one is Stage 1 V8 Front



I'll update the thread later with the part numbers and lengths (the post-it note is in my garage somewhere)

just taken this off the truck as it's binding after the lift:

Series 1 80"

rear - 40cm compressed, 45cm extended

This excellent thread needs some support, come on folks get measuring.


1989 110 rear propshaft.

1015mm to 1070mm


Will

I'll measure the LSE's prop

Td5 110 w/ R380 & LT230

rear 1110mm,

front 620~630mm