Sunday, December 1, 2013

Drive shafts

The last things to be done on the drive shafts are the dust covers, and final torque and loctiting of the hub/shaft joint.

The jury is out as far as the effectiveness of the driveshaft dust covers and most Cobra builds I've seen don't have them refitted. However as I had already stripped treated and por15ed them along with the fact that Jaguar thought the would be a good idea I am refitting them. Just a case of a few pop rivets plus stainless jubilee clips and they are fitted.


I just need to find a suitably sized rubber grommet to cover the grease gun hole - Wards out of stock with no plans to get more. Clearly greasing the UJs before fitting is a good idea.


Inner end of drive drive shaft completed too. 
Finally as you can see from the phot above the shaft castle nut is on with the split pin meaning I have loctited the inner third of the driveshaft splines with blue loctite and the castle nuts are torqued and the split pin inserted.



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