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Have just got the Chim out of hybernation and she sailed through the MOT 
I spoke to the tester about an occasional clunk i'm getting on gear changes, he had a fiddle underneath and said the driverside drive shaft has a small amount of play and said it would be the CV's. So i've been googling like mad and have come up with these:
https://www.prolinx.biz/pages/Products/ViewProduct...
Can anyone tell me if these are correct, my Chim is a 96 half facelift with the BTR diff, these are stated as GKN, will they fit ok ?
Can anyone also tell me if these boots fit and where i can get them from ?
https://binged.it/2YnMV6l
Cheers,
Pinx
I spoke to the tester about an occasional clunk i'm getting on gear changes, he had a fiddle underneath and said the driverside drive shaft has a small amount of play and said it would be the CV's. So i've been googling like mad and have come up with these:https://www.prolinx.biz/pages/Products/ViewProduct...
Can anyone tell me if these are correct, my Chim is a 96 half facelift with the BTR diff, these are stated as GKN, will they fit ok ?
Can anyone also tell me if these boots fit and where i can get them from ?
https://binged.it/2YnMV6l
Cheers,
Pinx
There's a chap (mookiesdad) selling drive shafts with a pair of oem Cv joints on ebay at £50 plus postage. I went there and bought a set plus a propshaft to keep as spares. They are bellhill garage and used to be the main tvr breaker in the south. The chap was genuine and said the vast majority of cars they broke had less than 20k mileage and the ones I got were tight.
Nothing to do with me but may be of interest to the op....
Nothing to do with me but may be of interest to the op....
Just buy the genuine boots from TVR car parts. A little bit pricey but they are quality items unlike most that are available elsewhere.
You will no doubt only fit them once unless they are cheapies of course! My cheaper ones although looking good split after a couple of years which when you think of the labour involved in fitting them is false economy every time.
You will no doubt only fit them once unless they are cheapies of course! My cheaper ones although looking good split after a couple of years which when you think of the labour involved in fitting them is false economy every time.
Peter beat me to it but these are proper OE GKN/Lobro quality and the better style http://race.parts/Catalogue/Drivetrain/CV-Joints/B...
phazed said:
Just buy the genuine boots from TVR car parts. A little bit pricey but they are quality items unlike most that are available elsewhere.
You will no doubt only fit them once unless they are cheapies of course! My cheaper ones although looking good split after a couple of years which when you think of the labour involved in fitting them is false economy every time.
Just learnt this lesson the hard way. Last year I bought a new crankshaft position sensor for my daily off EBay, and had it fitted. Pig of a job, took the garage an hour and a half. You will no doubt only fit them once unless they are cheapies of course! My cheaper ones although looking good split after a couple of years which when you think of the labour involved in fitting them is false economy every time.
Last week the one I had bought failed. Local garage guy replaced it with a genuine Bosch one. Gave me the car back with the words “we won’t need to do that job again, thankfully” and showed me the cuts on his hands. It’s one of those jobs where you can see where it goes, but have to pull the car to pieces to get at it, and even then it’s still awkward.
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