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Propshaft
« on: 30 August 2014, 20:07:09 »
Noticed whilst carrying out routine maintenance under my recently aquired money pit elite that the prop shaft looks very clean and has very new looking label on it.  Dare I ask why a prop shaft would ever have needed to be replaced?  ???
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Re: Propshaft
« Reply #1 on: 30 August 2014, 20:29:42 »
Other one fell off?
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Re: Propshaft
« Reply #2 on: 30 August 2014, 20:32:14 »
Pikeys?
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Re: Propshaft
« Reply #3 on: 30 August 2014, 20:35:49 »
Quote from: zirk on 30 August 2014, 20:29:42
Other one fell off?

Have you ever had a propshaft fall off ?  :o  :o  Remind me not to get into a car with you  ;)

Ah yes.. Pikeys.  Of course. Silly me.  :D
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Re: Propshaft
« Reply #4 on: 30 August 2014, 20:36:57 »
Possibly u/j failure    :-\ :-\
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Re: Propshaft
« Reply #5 on: 30 August 2014, 20:39:16 »
Quote from: X30XE on 30 August 2014, 20:35:49
Quote from: zirk on 30 August 2014, 20:29:42
Other one fell off?

Have you ever had a propshaft fall off ?  :o  :o  Remind me not to get into a car with you  ;)

Ah yes.. Pikeys.  Of course. Silly me.  :D
Yep, twas a RS1600 though,  ::)
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Re: Propshaft
« Reply #6 on: 30 August 2014, 21:17:40 »
Quote from: X30XE on 30 August 2014, 20:35:49
Quote from: zirk on 30 August 2014, 20:29:42
Other one fell off?

Have you ever had a propshaft fall off ?  :o  :o  Remind me not to get into a car with you  ;)



Twice on a chevette, and once on a manta, both shot the uj then ripped the back bearing out of the box, whoosh bang stop. :-X
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Re: Propshaft
« Reply #7 on: 30 August 2014, 21:40:37 »
Yup... donut failure on a Granada... the resulting conversation with the road snapped part of the mounting flange off... which was annoying ::)
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Re: Propshaft
« Reply #8 on: 30 August 2014, 21:51:56 »
I've twisted a couple, one on an avenger and one on a cortina estate, by putting two ton of aggregate in the trailer I was towing. Make a right clanking noise they do. :)
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Re: Propshaft
« Reply #9 on: 30 August 2014, 21:54:53 »
I'm noticing a common theme here... cars old enough for Helen of Troy to have owned one...  :D
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Re: Propshaft
« Reply #10 on: 30 August 2014, 22:02:18 »
Ah the smell of wee.... ;D :P
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Re: Propshaft
« Reply #11 on: 30 August 2014, 22:18:29 »
Quote from: chrisgixer on 30 August 2014, 22:02:18
Ah the smell of wee.... ;D :P
I'll have you know that I am over 6 years younger than you, and my oldest car was eight years younger than me :P

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Re: Propshaft
« Reply #12 on: 31 August 2014, 11:20:55 »
Quote from: zirk on 30 August 2014, 20:39:16
Quote from: X30XE on 30 August 2014, 20:35:49
Quote from: zirk on 30 August 2014, 20:29:42
Other one fell off?

Have you ever had a propshaft fall off ?  :o  :o  Remind me not to get into a car with you  ;)

Ah yes.. Pikeys.  Of course. Silly me.  :D
Yep, twas a RS1600 though,  ::)


.............and me on one of my brand new Ford Cortina Estates. Well in truth it was just holding on with two bolts according to the garage as some berk on the Dagenham line had failed to do his job, and nor had the pre-delivery dealership! ::) ::) ::)

It was making a hell of a noise every time I accelerated, and they said it was within moments of dropping down..................with obviously disastrous results. One of my near misses!! :o :o :o :o
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Re: Propshaft
« Reply #13 on: 31 August 2014, 19:29:14 »
Noticed a four foot length of propshaft in the central reservation on my crawl up to Heathrow earkier...
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Re: Propshaft
« Reply #14 on: 31 August 2014, 19:46:01 »
Many years ago i used to have a Ford Sierra as a company car.....it used to shudder as i accelerated...i thought it was normal  ::) Until a passenger told me this wasnt normal even for
Fords  ;D I reported the 'fault' and it was taken to a Ford garage....turned out the gearbox was only held in place by the engine  :o ;D 
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