chimaera 500 o/s rear drive shaft popped out

[DHUDD]

After pulling off from the traffic lights(bit quick)
there was a clunk and then i had no drive.
Had a quick look after towing it home and the off side rear drive shaft is moving all over the place.

Going to strip it down later.

any help before i start would be fantastic

Edited by DHUDD on Tuesday 8th July 11:26

[DHUDD]

Broke the Half Shaft!!!!
ooooppps!!!

[That Daddy]

Yes this happens sometimes,some one mentioned that GKN do some heavy duty jobbies,dont think they are that much of a problem to go to that extreme though,i wonder if they are MK3 Granny or Cossie sierra maybe someone can answer this one.

Edited by That Daddy on Thursday 10th July 20:37

[Littletidnock]

DHUDD said:

Broke the Half Shaft!!!!
ooooppps!!!

I knew there was a good reason I bought a baby 400!

[That Daddy]

Littletidnock said:

DHUDD said:

Broke the Half Shaft!!!!
ooooppps!!!

I knew there was a good reason I bought a baby 400!

Same shaft same problem,probably just takes a bit longer

[DHUDD]

all sorted!!
got a good set of second hand ones from ebaytastic! (£100)
beware though! there are to different size's.
the ones you need have a 108mm flange, some other sierra's had 100mm flanges.
you need 4x4 or cosworth.
Not to bad to change you just get covered i in SH#T.

[GreenV8S]

GKN made some for me that have a shoulder instead of the outer circlip groove, this removes the stress raiser which causes the failures here. Worth considering if you find you keep going through them (as I was doing, for some reason).