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phelpsa - 4/10/06 at 06:50 PM

Looking for a few pictures just to see what kind of clearances I need.

Please could you put the manufacturer aswell!

Thanks, Adam

pathfinder - 4/10/06 at 07:14 PM

Dunning and Fairbank @
www.propshafts.co.uk

£190 made and delivered in a week and loads cheaper than Bailey Morris



Photos in archive

[Edited on 4/10/06 by pathfinder]

[Edited on 4/10/06 by pathfinder]

StevieB - 4/10/06 at 07:25 PM

While on the subject - is it worth the extra for a TRT? About £250 I think.

Hellfire - 4/10/06 at 07:39 PM

quote:
Originally posted by StevieB
While on the subject - is it worth the extra for a TRT? About £250 I think.


1. Yes
2. Nearer to £150

Steve

StevieB - 4/10/06 at 07:48 PM

Is that £150 inc. prop, or £159 to convert existing prop?

I'm contemplating the TRT at the moment - I have the sierra unit in my garage as modded by MK, but I have nightmares about it not being properly balanced and coming apart at speed and impaling my left leg.

I like my left leg.

mark.s - 4/10/06 at 07:49 PM

i have no pics and i dont want to start a price war , just got mine delivered from auto prop £152 inc vat and post, i got a price for trt from another company, just shy of £400 , going to try and get you a pic now

cheers mark

StevieB - 4/10/06 at 08:23 PM

It's been welded and sorted by MK, so it should probably be ok. However, of all the things to get shoved through the old block and tackle at 100mph, I can't help thinking that a piece of propshaft would bring a tear to the eyes.

[Edited on 4/10/06 by StevieB]

Avoneer - 4/10/06 at 08:42 PM

Dunning & Fairbank.

Mine was £160 with sliding section and TRT.

Pat...

StevieB - 4/10/06 at 09:08 PM

I know they're custom made, but why are the prices so widely varied? Do you have to ring them on a good day?

Hellfire - 4/10/06 at 09:11 PM

quote:
Originally posted by StevieB
Is that £150 inc. prop, or £159 to convert existing prop?


Approx £150 to convert your existing propshaft to TRT including balancing.

Phil

StevieB - 4/10/06 at 09:20 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Hellfire
quote:
Originally posted by StevieB
Is that £150 inc. prop, or £159 to convert existing prop?


Approx £150 to convert your existing propshaft to TRT including balancing.

Phil


Assuming that the MK welding is adequate and strong (no reason to suspect otherwise), that's a £100 saving.

Supopse it's too much to expect it to come back all clean and pwder coated as well?

Hellfire - 4/10/06 at 09:36 PM

Ours came back clean and with a fresh coat of paint.

Phil

StevieB - 4/10/06 at 09:41 PM

Sold at £150 for a TRT prop conversion clean and shiney without any of my effort (the best way )

Assume D&F?

Cheers

Hellfire - 4/10/06 at 09:47 PM

quote:
Originally posted by StevieB
Assume D&F?


Yep.

the_fbi - 4/10/06 at 09:51 PM

quote:
Jon Dunning @ D&F
You need a 2pc shaft for the MC kit cars.

Price for torque resilient tube 2pc shaft will be £195.00 + carriage £13.00 + vat.

Price for a non-torque tube 2pc shaft will be £155.00 + carriage & vat.

All we need are your measurements from the G/Box fl to the centre of the c/brg mount and from the c/brg mount to the diff flange face.

All parts available ex-stock to build a shaft.

Delivery at the moment is 7-10 days from order.



quote:
Alan @ Bailey Morris
We can supply either a single or twin shaft in resilient tube complete with flanges, we can determine the need for a single or twin when you advise us of the length required.
£258.00 Twin shaft
£155.00 Single piece

Boost69 - 4/10/06 at 10:38 PM

Just starting a bike engined locost. Sorry for my ignorance, but whats TRT? Sounds like something I might come across or need?

Peteff - 4/10/06 at 11:31 PM

Takes some of the shock out of the driveline during gearchanges like the cush drive in a bike rear wheel.

phelpsa - 5/10/06 at 07:05 AM

Thanks guys, looks like I should be fine

Adam

Coose - 5/10/06 at 07:37 AM

quote:
Originally posted by StevieB
Sold at £150 for a TRT prop conversion clean and shiney without any of my effort (the best way )

Assume D&F?

Cheers


Whilst you're on Steve, unless they've been replaced already ask them to change the UJ bearings. It's not a difficult job, but at least it'll be done and I doubt they'll charge much to do them!

Oh yes, another thumbs-up for D&B, though I'm sure Bailey Morris are very good - it just happens to be that Leeds isn't far from me!

StevieB - 5/10/06 at 07:47 AM

I was contemplating taking it all apart myself and replacing everything, but I just want to get the car finished, and few extra quid here and there fopr someone else todo the job for me makes life easier (and safer!).

Not sure how I'm going to use the safer argument with the missus about Wilwood calipers over recon'd sierra ones, but I'll think of something!

Coose - 5/10/06 at 07:59 AM

Just tell her that they're straight off a special edition Sierra Spunkbucket - I'm sure she'll believe you!

StevieB - 5/10/06 at 08:03 AM

She never believes me.

Not when I buy new stuff that's critical.

Not when the perfume smell from my night out was the air freshener in the toilets that caught me.

Never

Coose - 5/10/06 at 08:11 AM

Birds eh? Can't live with 'em, can't kill 'em....

Coose - 5/10/06 at 08:22 AM

Ooooh, I didn't realise I had a U2U! I have now replied....

G.Man - 5/10/06 at 08:23 AM

quote:
Originally posted by StevieB

Not when the perfume smell from my night out was the air freshener in the toilets that caught me.



You need to stop being humble about it...

If my misses accused me of being with a woman over the smell of a bathroom airfreshener, she would get a mouthfull of indignant response, not "but honey is was the bathroom airfreshener, honest"

Moneywise, she needs to be told that whilst it is "our" money, you have a right to buy things for yourself from money you earn...

Get some backbone lad, if she is assertive, you need to be more so... you are the man not her..



If on the other hand it means your family will go short of something then thats different..

chockymonster - 5/10/06 at 09:20 AM

At least your wife isn't an accountant.
Nothing gets hidden, it just isn't possible

StevieB - 5/10/06 at 10:21 AM

quote:
Originally posted by chockymonster
At least your wife isn't an accountant.
Nothing gets hidden, it just isn't possible


Worse - she's a buyer. My wife is a professional buyer!

I'm a quantity surveyor though, so I'm quite used to creating 'bunce' here and there for use on rainy days (be it to top off the margins at work, or buy shiney stuff for my car at home!)

Hellfire - 5/10/06 at 11:28 AM

What a coincidence, I'm a Quantity Surveyor too.......

Phil

StevieB - 5/10/06 at 11:34 AM

Ah, another compatriate in the beautiful but deadly art of making an easy job look difficult in order to command a good rate!

StevieB - 5/10/06 at 11:36 AM

quote:
Originally posted by G.Man
quote:
Originally posted by StevieB

Not when the perfume smell from my night out was the air freshener in the toilets that caught me.



You need to stop being humble about it...

If my misses accused me of being with a woman over the smell of a bathroom airfreshener, she would get a mouthfull of indignant response, not "but honey is was the bathroom airfreshener, honest"

Moneywise, she needs to be told that whilst it is "our" money, you have a right to buy things for yourself from money you earn...

Get some backbone lad, if she is assertive, you need to be more so... you are the man not her..



If on the other hand it means your family will go short of something then thats different..



There's a difference between having some backbone and just generally being an ungentlemanly w**k!

Besides, I argue for a living, so I do as I'm told at home as I can't be arsed after a days work!

G.Man - 5/10/06 at 12:35 PM

Yes, but being gentlemenly isnt about doing everything your wife says...

Thats being a slave

phelpsa - 5/10/06 at 02:11 PM

I don't know how being a Quantity Surveyor relates to pictures of BEC prop.... but i'm sure it does so carry on!

tks - 5/10/06 at 02:11 PM

MONEY AND SAFETY?

WHERE IS THE LIMIT?

a prop isn“t the limit..

tell your misus (woman) that if you miss one leg that life for her will be terrible...

i bet you can buy 2 props with that one..

I think if you life together allot % of money is also for both of them.

saying that i hope i can be a little big spender in the end its the way you can life at best

Tks

StevieB - 5/10/06 at 02:43 PM

quote:
Originally posted by phelpsa
I don't know how being a Quantity Surveyor relates to pictures of BEC prop.... but i'm sure it does so carry on!


Sorry - things started ot take a bit of a twist. It all started when it was concluded that TRT's are good, but are also expensive.

The rest is just detritus

tks - 6/10/06 at 10:17 AM

CaLviNx


cany ou measure for me the height of that bearing??

I have sended my shaft back to B&M because of the bearing was to big for my tunnel

what are the exact dimensions of that bearing and the b&M code? to lookup the shaft thickness..

Tks