REAR DRIVE SHAFT UPGRADE / SHITE UJs
Discussion
Just a footnote really to my post on the upgrade of my drive shafts.
I replaced the UJs on my original 350i drive shafts and bought them from a certain well known TVR supplier. They have only done about 200 miles and have already worn badly so that i now have the same problem as before ie moment of the rear wheels top to bottom. This tends to give a rather wiggly feeling when accelerating hard, and changes the whole set up of the rear.
The UJs where put in by a good mechanic that i know well and i have even check that the job was done properly so i assumed that the UJs were crap quality.
With this in mind i took out one of the cups off the end of the new UJs and compared it with one of the old ones that i had kept. The roller pins in the new one were only half the diameter of the old ones and looked thin and weak. Im guessing cheap Jap import or something like it. Needless to say someone is going to be getting a rather irate phone call soon.
I replaced the UJs on my original 350i drive shafts and bought them from a certain well known TVR supplier. They have only done about 200 miles and have already worn badly so that i now have the same problem as before ie moment of the rear wheels top to bottom. This tends to give a rather wiggly feeling when accelerating hard, and changes the whole set up of the rear.
The UJs where put in by a good mechanic that i know well and i have even check that the job was done properly so i assumed that the UJs were crap quality.
With this in mind i took out one of the cups off the end of the new UJs and compared it with one of the old ones that i had kept. The roller pins in the new one were only half the diameter of the old ones and looked thin and weak. Im guessing cheap Jap import or something like it. Needless to say someone is going to be getting a rather irate phone call soon.
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