passenger side driveshaft

7th January 2009, 23:11

worse comes to worse im going to have to get it replaced due to the knocking, how much am i looking at paying, anyone know

cheers

7th January 2009, 23:16

if you get it done at a garage it should be around £130-£170 mate, you can get um brand new of ebay for £80 den you could fit it your self.

8th January 2009, 11:51

its pretty easy to do if you have a bit of knoledge i think me and ross changed mine in about 20 mins in the dark one evening...

8th January 2009, 14:02

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Originally Posted by vtr-richie

its pretty easy to do if you have a bit of knoledge i think me and ross changed mine in about 20 mins in the dark one evening...

could you do me a short guide and did you change diff seals

8th January 2009, 14:23

no i didint change the seals just slotted it straight in!

right well jsut jack up the spassenger side, take the wheel off and undoo the cnetre nut the holds the shaft through the strut (dont knwo its tech name) ideally replace this as it has like 2 'wings' that you need to bend over to stop it from working loose if these are ok then you might get away with it, then you need to undo the ball joint nut take that clean out! then get a breakers bar or something hard and long or a ball joint splitter and you need to split the ball joint you can do it by leavering it undone or by holding the bar across the arm and in a up and donw motion bash them apart ones the ball joint is apart you should be able to manouver the strut out of the way letting the shaft come out of the bearings and stuff then its a simple case of taking the drive shaft out of the gearbox watch the gearbox oil on the driveway! then reverse that lot to put it back together!

8th January 2009, 15:07

i got mine done for 139.99 fitted and it was brand new, you could buy a refurbished 1 for 49.99 plus 30 quid ish ontop to fit...

8th January 2009, 15:39

i wouldnt jsut get a new one from whoopee or w.e