Front prop-have i bought the wrong one?

Haynes sez it should be 643mm mines around 620 and i dont think its gonna fit.Am i shagged?

Isn't one of the UJ's splined and can slide up/down the shaft????:behindsofa:

on most they are!!!

Not a problem if it will slide the 20 odd mm you are looking for!!!

yep this is the amount of movement.(the bronze coloured bit.)
This is the shortfall.

I measured it at full length :doh::doh:

How do they compare fully closed?

i think you need to stop parking that car at the bottom of the sea, its fecking the exhaust up!

Irishrover said:

How do they compare fully closed?

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About the same but thats not gonna be an issue if i cant connect it to the diff.

gavbriggs said:

i think you need to stop parking that car at the bottom of the sea, its fecking the exhaust up!

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its terracotta plated thanks to bures PnP.

the old prop would extend to 670mm.

Just been out and measured the one on my classic 200tdi and its exactly 680mm while fitted.don't know what engines in yours but the prop you've got isn't a deisel one.

wreckhunter said:

Just been out and measured the one on my classic 200tdi and its exactly 680mm while fitted.don't know what engines in yours but the prop you've got isn't a deisel one.

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this is me old one, does yours look like this?Mines a 3.9 auto without cats.

See if you can slide it right off and swap them over, the difference in length might be on the outside bit.

Well the old ones ****ed but at the breakers he said thats not off a 3.9 v8.I know it aint from the haynes book but what hve i got now?Might refit the old one for the time eing only cheap ujs.Ill do a comparison of length

The one originally fitted looks a bit like a P38 one, the breakers one looks like a discovery or 200tdi one. I bet there's a difference in lenght from auto to manual transmission.

Just checked RAVE, non catalyst models have a tubular driveshaft, Catalyst a solid bar so you had a non cat model fitted. I reckon the difference in length must be auto/manual it would seem like too much of a coincidence that they would be exactly the same length drivetrain and the drive shaft is the only place that the difernce would show up.

Yeah and difference if fitted with cat converter too.First one looks sturdyer though.

PROPSHAFT-FRONT FRC8386 Defender Discovery Range Rover TVB100610
FRC8386 Front Propshaft - 3.9V8 without cat
http://www.island-4x4.co.uk/front-propshaft-8998-frc8386-p-145.html

not even the spares dealers know wot ones wot?!!?:doh:

Yes,my prop looks exactly like your old one and is 680mm from flange to flange when fitted.looking quickly at the paddocks site the deisel + the v8 non cat are the same.Is there any numbers on the prop you've been supplyed?

wreckhunter said:

Yes,my prop looks exactly like your old one and is 680mm from flange to flange when fitted.looking quickly at the paddocks site the deisel + the v8 non cat are the same.Is there any numbers on the prop you've been supplyed?

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Nice one wreckhunter.HAve to have a look in the morrow.