Prop Shaft Replacement!!#@*!

[Prop Shaft]

I am trying to replace my prop shaft and there seems to be a metal ring with rubber in the middle that slips into the drive shaft just before it meets the rear differencial, and I can't get it OUT!!!!

HELP!!! Any suggestions??

Please email me lucipearce@hotmail.com
as well as post in here. Thank you so much!!! This is a freakin' nightmare!!

 

[Ian95rrc]

It's called a rotoflex. A good place to start would be in the tech section under rotoflex u-joint conversion.

 

[Andrew Homan]

Luci P once you get that out there is a bushing that can be siezed. I'm assuming you are changing over to a u-joint stye shaft. Three words. Slide hammer, penetrating oil and small torch. If you are just changing the roto flex disregard everything I said. The tech section should have detail instructions.

 

[andrewv]

Sounds like the dreaded locating pin coming out of the rear diff. We get them out with a home made tool: 2 big long sockets with a piece of thick strap steel across their tops to form an upside down U (the legs of the U are the sockets). Bolts through the sockets and steel to hold them together, with a hole through the middle of the steel to thread a bolt into the pin, #8 I believe. Thread the bolt into the pin and start turning, using the sockets as legs against the diff, and start turning. You will need to apply heat as well.

 

[bri]

I assume that you are talking about the bushing in the end of the drive shaft that the centering peg fits into. Below is the centering peg:

The centering peg goes throught the center of the rotoflex and fits into the bushing in the middle of the driveshaft. To get this little baby out, use a dremel, being very careful not to cut into the driveshaft. Once you are about 1/2 way through another tool can be used to pry it out, it will break. I made 2 cuts in it 180 degrees from each other.

After doing that, I never wanted to do it again, so I replaced with non-rotoflex driveshaft.

To remove the centering peg, use a slide hammer, that is all that is needed. Forget the hoem made tool or anything else, it may work, it may not. Even the master techs at the LR dealership will tell you that the LR tool to remove the centering peg is a pain and sometimes won't work.

Slide hammer is the only way to go, it will remove the centering peg in 10 seconds.

However if you are just replacing the rotoflex and the bushing, there is no need to remove the centering peg.

Brian

 

[Blue]

wow, nice pic

do a search for "centralizing peg" and read about the metal collar with the bushing that the peg slips into.

 

[bri]

Its just a reference to yours.

BTW, thanks for that article it helped me a lot about a year ago.

Although that bushing was a PITA.

Oh, yeah, put anti-seize on it if you replace it.