Steering - Universal Joints

[raceboy]

Pretty sure I'm in need of 2 new universal joints on the steering, well probably only the top one but it seems daft not to change them both while I've got my hands dirty.....
But idealy I'd like to try and avoid paying too much 'TVR Tax'
The best price I can find from the TVR specific suppliers is about £36 a piece which doesn't sound too bad until you do a bit of surfing and find the Land Rover parts at about £10 a piece.

So the big question is are they the same?
I'm after TVR part numbers H0072 & H0073 but are these the same as Land Rover part number NRC7704 or NRC7387

Can't seem to find any cross references on the usual TVR pages but wondered if anyone else had worked this one out, currently waiting for some emails to be replied from a few Land Rover parts suppliers but if someone from the TVR world had already solved the part number cross reference issues then it's all good

At the end of the day £80 for the TVR parts isn't going to break the bank but if I can keep £60 in my pocket and have the same items in a different bag then it's got to be a win....and every little helps.

[phillpot]

This one or this one fit the earlier S Series cars, possibly the same

[raceboy]

Would be slightly more confident if it quoted the spline sizes, not sure how similar the Chim/Grif is to the S
Might drop them a mail too, and not heard anything from the Land Rover Parts people yet.

[SILICONEKID340HP]

raceboy said:

Pretty sure I'm in need of 2 new universal joints on the steering, well probably only the top one but it seems daft not to change them both while I've got my hands dirty.....
But idealy I'd like to try and avoid paying too much 'TVR Tax'
The best price I can find from the TVR specific suppliers is about £36 a piece which doesn't sound too bad until you do a bit of surfing and find the Land Rover parts at about £10 a piece.

So the big question is are they the same?
I'm after TVR part numbers H0072 & H0073 but are these the same as Land Rover part number NRC7704 or NRC7387

Can't seem to find any cross references on the usual TVR pages but wondered if anyone else had worked this one out, currently waiting for some emails to be replied from a few Land Rover parts suppliers but if someone from the TVR world had already solved the part number cross reference issues then it's all good



At the end of the day £80 for the TVR parts isn't going to break the bank but if I can keep £60 in my pocket and have the same items in a different bag then it's got to be a win....and every little helps.

Why don`t you nip in to Paddocks with the ball joint
http://www.paddockspares.com/contacts

|Then tell us all the part number

[ewan221]

raceboy said:

Would be slightly more confident if it quoted the spline sizes, not sure how similar the Chim/Grif is to the S
Might drop them a mail too, and not heard anything from the Land Rover Parts people yet.

I was going to change the UJs when i had the rack done but according to CT TVR used two different spline sizes so could not order until I had it in bits

[raceboy]

SILICONEKID340HP said:

Why don`t you nip in to Paddocks with the ball joint
http://www.paddockspares.com/contacts

I was hoping someone else had don the hard work.
Looks like its either suck up the TVR Tax, or get my hands dirty and head off to Paddocks.....how hard can it be.

[raceboy]

Had a reply from one of the Land Rover parts suppliers and it doesn't look good for avoiding the TVR
Tax, they have not gone into detail but I quoted the sizes of my bits, and they just said 'No, it's different'.

[phillpot]

Ask on the S forum if anyone has a scrap one they could send you as a pattern or their car in bits and could take some measurements ?

[Hedgehopper]

Some info. here that might help. Look under May 1998.

http://www.geocities.ws/pbtn6/chasgen.htm

[black and green]

raceboy said:

Had a reply from one of the Land Rover parts suppliers and it doesn't look good for avoiding the TVR
Tax, they have not gone into detail but I quoted the sizes of my bits, and they just said 'No, it's different'.

Isn't the steering column from a cavalier?

[raceboy]

Hedgehopper said:

Some info. here that might help. Look under May 1998.

http://www.geocities.ws/pbtn6/chasgen.htm

Cheers, I think that basically confirms the decision I was on the verge of, TVR bits it is then.