Any hints on separating a tailshaft?

[vc commodore]

Not sure on Perth Surburbs, but Hardie Spicer did mine and they are in Perth

Address: 49 Banksia Rd, Welshpool WA 6106



Phone: (08) 9258 6300


And re-reading your post, your tailshaft will be stuffed.....Clamping it in a vice, shearing a screw to the jaws of the vice, flogging the crap out of it and moving a heavy bench with a person sitting on it...It's cactus....

 

[Fu Manchu]

Not sure on Perth Surburbs, but Hardie Spicer did mine and they are in Perth

Address: 49 Banksia Rd, Welshpool WA 6106



Phone: (08) 9258 6300


And re-reading your post, your tailshaft will be stuffed.....Clamping it in a vice, shearing a screw to the jaws of the vice, flogging the crap out of it and moving a heavy bench with a person sitting on it...It's cactus....

Bloody legends there. They helped me find the bits for mine.

 

[lout]

if you havent already destroyed your tailshaft
try drowning spline area with RP7 or similar
try a couple of ratchet straps and put tension, trying to pull shaft apart
and then crack with hammer
only on innermost point of bolt ears
the straps seem to stop it trying to spring back together with each hit

 

[lout]

this will make you cry
nobody ever had it this easy

unless he is clarke kent

 

[Lex]

this will make you cry
nobody ever had it this easy

unless he is clarke kent

Wonder if the shaft was in phase, balanced, when put back together?

 

[malmensa]

this will make you cry
nobody ever had it this easy

unless he is clarke kent

That tailshaft is a bit different to my VY Ecotec wagon.

 

[malmensa]

I am in the midst of replacing the transmission on my VY wagon. All going fairly well, apart from noticing a totally stuffed tailshaft center bearing rubber insulator. I have been attempting to pull the tailshaft apart so that I can replace the bearing and rubber. So far I have tried clamping the tail shaft in a vice, and bashing the crap out of it with a sledge hammer. All this did was move the heavy bench, even with someone sitting on it. I also managed to shear the screws holding one of the jaw inserts into the vice. Has not moved a bit.


I am pretty much out of ideas now. Anyone have a suggestion? I have looked online, wreckers seem to only have tailshafts in poor condition, and "reconditioned" units are $500 or so, which seems a bit expensive. I already have a bearing and two rubber "donuts" on the way from Ebay, $115 all up. Anyone recommend a shop somewhere in the Northern Perth 'burbs who can split the tailshaft, pull the old bearing and push it back together for me at a reasonable price?

If anyone is interested, I did indeed eventually give up and took the drive shaft in to be rebuilt. The guy I spoke to said that these sometimes come apart with a sledge hammer, but sometimes lock firmly in place and refuse to budge. Looks like I had a difficult one.

 

[shane_3800]

Lol, I know how to do them but I'm not telling.

 

[losh1971]

Belting them with a hammer is a good way to damage the uni. Glad you had it done at a proper place. Damage that uni and the job becomes very expensive if you have to get the uni replaced.

 

[lout]

Lol, I know how to do them but I'm not telling.

well why are you here if you dont want to help