Where would you go to get some metal bent?

[Kermit power]

Having managed to slightly bend the end of a propshaft (the yoke part that the universal joint fits into), I could do with someone with suitable hydraulic equipment to unbend it. To be more specific, the amount of hammering required to dislodge the bloody UJ after 175k miles has resulted in one of the lugs being angled in by a couple of mm at most, but it's enough to prevent use as is.

Anyone know what sort of place I might be able to take it to?

[Tyngwndwn]

Just get another one from a scrapy.

[GTIR]

Did you heat it up beforehand?






I know it's not much help I just want to be a sanctimonious prick.

[Fish981]

I would suspect that the bending (and unbending) would have weakened it so much that a 2nd hand one would
be your best bet.

[ChiChoAndy]

Brighton?

[The Wookie]

Kermit power said:

Having managed to slightly bend the end of a propshaft (the yoke part that the universal joint fits into), I could do with someone with suitable hydraulic equipment to unbend it. To be more specific, the amount of hammering required to dislodge the bloody UJ after 175k miles has resulted in one of the lugs being angled in by a couple of mm at most, but it's enough to prevent use as is.

Anyone know what sort of place I might be able to take it to?

I know it's a pain in the arse to get another one (based on your other thread), but you really don't want to be messing about with flailing propshafts. If it lets go it'll rip the floor to shreds or, at worst, pole vault the car onto it's roof

[LuS1fer]

Uri Geller?

[Kermit power]

The Wookie said:

I know it's a pain in the arse to get another one (based on your other thread), but you really don't want to be messing about with flailing propshafts. If it lets go it'll rip the floor to shreds or, at worst, pole vault the car onto it's roof

This is a fair point. It's proving a monumental pain in the arse to find the right fit though! God only knows why they felt the need to have so many different variations.

At present, I have three rear propshafts for 3.0l V6 LWB Shoguns sat in the garage. Between them, the have three different gearbox connectors, three different diff connectors and two slightly different lengths of actual shaft.

[trickywoo]

http://www.parkinsons.co.uk/Workshops_Overview/Pro...

http://www.reco-prop.com/prop.htm

I'd doubt a metal bender aka blacksmith would do it properly.

[GAjon]

Have you anyone in your vacinity who could make you one good one out of the bits you have?
North west propshafts in Manchester are ( or used to be if they are still trading) quite good, I had them shorten one for me many moons ago, they didn't even bother refitting the old yolk they cut the shaft, welded a new end on to the correct length and rebalanced the whole thing.

[cazzer]

The Wookie said:

I know it's a pain in the arse to get another one (based on your other thread), but you really don't want to be messing about with flailing propshafts. If it lets go it'll rip the floor to shreds or, at worst, pole vault the car onto it's roof

No it won't. They spent ages trying to do this on mythbusters.
Doesn't happen.
Rips the rear axle out first.

[The Wookie]

cazzer said:

No it won't. They spent ages trying to do this on mythbusters.
Doesn't happen.
Rips the rear axle out first.

Still not exactly a desirable situation!!

[cazzer]

Well no

But not as visually exciting unfortunately.