Looks pretty banged up.

What do you guys think?

Just to explain.....

I'm booked in to have my prop changed tomorrow.

My centre support is suspect so I managed to source the above reconditioned prop with new centre bearing to replace the whole lot. I'm not sure which end is which but the end in the picture is part of the half without the centre support on the recon one. Would i be better off not using it?

I think it's ok as it looks like a blanking plate. It looks like the end that fastens to the diff. I've only experience of NA's though, I believe TT's are different - 6 holes instead of 4?

 

If you are having it replaced, won't the people who are doing it for you know? Anyway, you should be doing it yourself. Nice afternoon on your back... What more can you wish for...

 

Good luck

 

Jack

I think it's ok as it looks like a blanking plate. It looks like the end that fastens to the diff. I've only experience of NA's though, I believe TT's are different - 6 holes instead of 4?

 

If you are having it replaced, won't the people who are doing it for you know? Anyway, you should be doing it yourself. Nice afternoon on your back... What more can you wish for...

 

Good luck

 

Jack

... a nice woman on my front... :tongue:

I don't have time mate... wish i did... I also don't have access to a ramp low enough to get onto :(

 

The guys fitting it are Evo specialists... Don't think they've had the pleasure of many Zeds :)

Dave - I've done the job a few times, you are knackered by the time you get the car up on 4 axle stands - high enough to work under. Then you are knackered by the time you've removed the exhaust (you can seperate it from the cats and work around it) an then the prop itself weighs a ton, then you have to do it all again when you replace the centre bearing spacers as washers, then again when you haven't marked the prop before seperating it and it's out of balance, then again when you've damaged the gearbox rear seal.

 

...here's a few clues (from experience) for your Evo guys...

 

Good luck

 

Jack

Oh balls!!!

The prop is already in 2 halves and doesn't appear to have been marked :(

look closely, there's often a dab of white paint on both ends and sometimes the flanges that bolt together are scored before they are seperated. You are supposed to do the flanges that bolt to the diff as well (I seem to recall).

 

Good luck

 

Jack

So i need to let the garage know that it must be fitted to the prop a particular way up, to the gearbox a particular way up, and together a particular way up or it'll all be out of ballance?