triumph dolly 1850 axle needed

[kawasakisteve]

hi i desperatly need a triumph dolomite 1850 axle or hub and half shaft as mine met a kerb and is now bent.. any help or advise would be helpful.. am based in lincoln but would be willing to travel for right part and price

[caziques]

You may be glad to know that all Toledo, Triumph 1500 RWD and Dolomite 1300/1500/1850 axles are all the same - the only part that varies is the diff ratio and brake backplate - ie the axle beam and halfshafts are all the same.

[kawasakisteve]

Thanks. I was looking at a tr7 shaft on rimmer bros website and it looks almost exact and they have one in stock. Gonna pop in to them with my bent half shaft tomorrow and offer it up.

[davepoth]

Not going to work unfortunately. It's the same design but 4 inches longer. As has been said all dolly and toledo axles (except sprint) are identical. It's a real pain to swap the halfshafts over, so it will be less effort to swap the whole axle and then pop the old differential in if the ratio is wrong.

Get over to http://forum.triumphdolomite.co.uk, if there's one around they'll know where it is.

Edited by davepoth on Sunday 31st July 11:05

[kawasakisteve]

That's a shame. I've signed up for the dolly forums but not allowed to post yet so I can't ask anyone on there yet. Thanks for the info on the tr7 shaft. If it's longer is it also bigger in diameter. Cause we used to shorten reliant axles for trikes and know of a engineer that could take 4" out of the shaft

[davepoth]

kawasakisteve said:

That's a shame. I've signed up for the dolly forums but not allowed to post yet so I can't ask anyone on there yet. Thanks for the info on the tr7 shaft. If it's longer is it also bigger in diameter. Cause we used to shorten reliant axles for trikes and know of a engineer that could take 4" out of the shaft

IIRC the axle will be the same size, so it could be a possibility. The price of a Rimmer's halfshaft plus work to shorten it, and then the labour to get the halfshaft swapped (it'll need a hydraulic press) is going to make it very expensive though.

[kawasakisteve]

Amazingly Rimmers only want £30 for the shaft and I can do all the work myself. The only thing I can't do is balance the shaft after its been shortened. Gonna use this as a last resort tho cause it's alot of mucking about. Alot of people have told me to straighten the shaft but I'm not happy with doing that