steering shaft ujoints

[robertf]

I stripped out the splines on the steering ujoint again on my disco and have come to the conclusion that these things are not up to the task of rock crawling.

I ran across a gray market RRC in the junkyard once and noticed it had a steel ujoint.

Does anyone know if these interchange with the aluminum ones, or what models got them?

 

[ptschram]

Yes, they interchange! I have a '95 Disco shaft on my '93 LWB.

You'll be fine with anything prior to '94, IIRC. (I'll have to go look at my '94 LWB to be sure).

You may also be surprised at how much less expensive the early ones are. I was!

 

[robertf]

thanks, so its not just a black market thing, RRC's have them to? I see tons of RRCs at the junkyard, but never checked them out other than the oddball gray market one that I'm still pissed at myself that I didn't buy the transmission and transfercase out of.

 

[robertf]

well I should have done this last year, instead I put another disco ujoint on there and it stripped again.

PT- you say you have a 95 disco shaft on the RR, are the disco and RR shaft different, or is it just the ujoint/coupler that is different?

 

[jlprice]

I was at the dealer looking for that UJ while I was replacing the steering box, and was told the whole steering shaft has been superceeded and it no longer has that joint in it. It looked like a better design. It was some bucks though.

cheers
-jeff

 

[robertf]

damn, $290 for that new thing.


Ordered the 24.95 defender ujoint instead. Hope it fits.