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I'm over these crook replacement drive shafts. Were going back to the old days where the crooks are again doctoring up shonky CV Drive Shafts and selling them on Ebay and other outlets. I recently replaced the young blokes front CV Dive shafts on his Brumby only find they were knocking just after about 100 ks. Next time I got a Mechanic to replace them and about 500ks same thing---Fk/ed. I decided to pull the stuffed shafts down and found it so easy -Sure really messy. I went over all the parts in the shonky shafts and found the inner race's were worn beyond belief and it looked like heavy duty graffite grease had been used. Now all I want to do is buy my own parts bearings/races etc and replace the parts myself. Any of u guys out there got any idea where I can buy the bearings /races etc for this job. Look it a messy job and u need plenty of rags news paper etc but once I get my head around this job with new parts I be a happier bloke.

Stay away from ebay cv's... if you can, go to a cv specialist or auto parts store. They can get all the parts you need or buy complete units, it will cost more but you will get what you pay for. I got auto force cv's for about 160 each and they come with a 60000km warranty. Also depends on the car and how you install them. My l series has a 3 inch lift and kills cv's every 80000km if I'm lucky. but the brumby is standard height and the last set were done at 200000km. I just changed mine after doing bearings as preventive maintenance and have 360000kms on the clock.

Gazza01 wrote:I'm over these crook replacement drive shafts. Were going back to the old days where the crooks are again doctoring up shonky CV Drive Shafts and selling them on Ebay and other outlets. I recently replaced the young blokes front CV Dive shafts on his Brumby only find they were knocking just after about 100 ks. Next time I got a Mechanic to replace them and about 500ks same thing---Fk/ed. I decided to pull the stuffed shafts down and found it so easy -Sure really messy. I went over all the parts in the shonky shafts and found the inner race's were worn beyond belief and it looked like heavy duty graffite grease had been used. Now all I want to do is buy my own parts bearings/races etc and replace the parts myself. Any of u guys out there got any idea where I can buy the bearings /races etc for this job. Look it a messy job and u need plenty of rags news paper etc but once I get my head around this job with new parts I be a happier bloke.

When you start replacing cv ends you will come to a lot of greef:(
I did the same and found that the cheep crap splines are different by a couple of teeth I had about 5 shafts at home out of 5 only 1 was oem, The new ends wouldn't go on they where too big this is for a Forester
Go to Drive line services by a complete shaft they are oem speck. They also have ends and boots but make shaw the spline count is the same or you will wast your money

Jan

Unfortunately, it's not just reco'ed ones that are wearing quickly. Some new ones aren't machined, the outer section is literally cast and that's it. Some brands of cars then get a vibration that is hard to trace, turns out the driveshaft is stuffed.

We see the same with differentials and gearboxes, the parts aren't machined, they are cast and that's it.

The auto-force ones they sell at Sprint auto parts are good. They are nearly $200 each, but you can install them and then forget about them, and that makes them worth the money to me.