Props - taking out the slack

[JST]

Got some wear in the slider (that is in vertical plane(s)) can you rebuild a prop and take it out if so how?

[Les Henson]

There's no way that I know of to repair wear in the sliding joint unfortunately. New prop time I'm afraid James.

Les.

[little nay]

when you repalce the prop, do your self a favor and get the real mcoy, not pattern parts ones. i got caught out on that and had to repalce both UJ's after just 6 months!

[pugwash]

or just buy a funky wide angle one

[Les Henson]

'FUNKY!!!!' No-on says funky any more. Not a child of the 60's by any chance are you Jim?

Les. (cool man!)

[Happyoldgit]

I imagine a groovy and hip thing to do is to take the old prop to a specialist and get the man to breath his magic smoke on it.

Peace - make love not war man.

[Guest diesel_jim]

cosmic

[dollythelw]

I had a cat at Burgess weave some karma for a couple of radical props, they had like an earth mumma size slip joint - my chakras were aligned after that, much bigger than the feeble ones supplied by "the man"

I can see the music from my diesel stack...................

[Les Henson]

You could lay some psychadelic heavy grease on the splines man. For while all will be peace and love. If you leave them to chill out, you'll be getting some heavy vibes from the worn splines.

Les.

[bill van snorkle]

If you want a bodge solution then you can tighten the slip joints up a bit by running a couple of circumferential beads of weld around the outside of the female spline. Make sure the male shaft is inside the female before doing this . Do one ring at a time, making sure you don't penetrate to much or the male may get stuck inside and won't slide in and out comfortably.

Time for a cold shower.

Bill.

[JST]

OK back ON Topic!

any ideas on specialists in the SW?

[minivin]

nope, always used the Propshop as they are pretty much next day delivery

[dollythelw]

If you're feeling particularly tight Burgess (aka propshaft clinic) can put a new slip into an old shaft

[pugwash]

new slip? old shaft?

now that is not cool or funky

dude you need to get things sorted before you waste your spondoolies on a seriouly unhip piece of funk!

[will_warne]

I'd also reccomed Burgess. Superb service, good price and very fast turn arround.

[Bull Bar Cowboy]

If you want a bodge solution then you can tighten the slip joints up a bit by running a couple of circumferential beads of weld around the outside of the female spline. Make sure the male shaft is inside the female before doing this . Do one ring at a time, making sure you don't penetrate to much or the male may get stuck inside and won't slide in and out comfortably.

Time for a cold shower.

Bill.

I have used the trick of shrinkage on older (hard to replace) shafts and it works very well, but the 90 front and rear shafts have a blue plastic coating on the splines ............ its usually this that wears causing the slackness.

The coating looks like plastic and breaks like plastic ... but is probably something entirely different!

Ian