OK i'm just about fed up with this now. Everything I touch on my kit seems to take ten times longer than it should!

The latest problem I'm having is trying to find someone who will sell me new CV joints/boots. They are the ones to suit the Ford Sierra tripod type (push fit) differential.

My hours of searching on the net has amounted to very little and even the company who I am looking to get the driveshafts made through said they struggle to get Sierra parts and want me to supply the CV joints. This was pretty much confirmed by my local motor factors not being able to source them.

I am now wondering if it's this difficult to get replacement bits, what happens if I fit the old donor parts and a unit fails? I really don't want to fit the old bits.

If someone knows of a place that sells the tripod type CV joints (there are a few that seem to do the Lobro type but not tripod), please let me know. Also the boots/tin can that covers the CV joint I can't seem to be able to get hold of? I know some of you guys use this type of diff so where are you sourcing your bits?

This coupled with the fact that i've just found out that the M10 x 1.0 x 25 fasteners that hold the diff and prop together are £3.60 each for 10.9 grade is quite frankly ridiculous. They cost pence to make.

.....and breath.

Race parts sell gkn tripod joints , boots etc.


http://www.raceparts.co.uk/products/drive_train.asp?group=Drive+Train

[Edited on 15/8/12 by T66]

This is exactly the reason I changed my build over to bolt on shafts. I had pushins on the donor, and wanted drum brakes, but the CVs needed an overhaul and I wanted all new parts - even Ford could only help with a limited amount of parts, and one of the parts (the out cans), they only had 3 of and i needed 4! and that was the whole country apparently!

The bonus is the tripod joints are fairly indestructable, but as the outer cans are now hard to replace, you cant dismantle them easily (i need to get my shafts shortened so they had to come apart), and you cant rebuild them!

CPS Drivelink were brilliant in helping me get some obscure driveshafts and CV joints for my race car and did them really cheaply.

Calm down young man.

Everything will take three times longer than you think, longer if you get angry.

T66 - thanks for the link. They have tripod joints but just need tocheck they are the same dimensions as mine since they are for a fford.
(but I shall be optimistic

Doctor Derek - CPS is where i'm planning on getting the driveshafts made! I had a quote though and although I'm sure they are a quality manufacturer your version of cheap must be a little different to mine! I will go with CPS though as they were very quick at replying to me and they said they would be able to sort something out for me.


Designer - it's more frustration than anything else. I have a finite amount of time to work on the car each year because I'm studying at the moment (and a wife and kids would like to see me in between) so the summer is my most productive period for me to work onthe car. If I can't get bits I can't get things done. At my current work rate I'll be finished in about 10 years time.

If its any consolation, Ive spent limited time in my garage, progressed quite a bit, then changed my mind and now appear to be back at the start..


At my work rate (3-4 hrs a week) I will be mucking on for five years. But Im not into flogging along with a deadline. No fun in that

That's the thing. I didn't have a deadline when i started, but I don't think I thought it would take me this long to get as far as I have. My trouble is I can't even potter in the garage for an hour or so on a night because it's being built at my dads who has a double garage.

If I hadn't gone to the trouble of buying a Sierra donor car to get the diff and other parts for the build, and knowing what I do now, I would have been better off going lobro. I've even got the rear bearing carriers to go that route!

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Originally posted by speedygonzales
That's the thing. I didn't have a deadline when i started, but I don't think I thought it would take me this long to get as far as I have. My trouble is I can't even potter in the garage for an hour or so on a night because it's being built at my dads who has a double garage.

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