Driveshaft fitting, cheapest place?

[nosluom]

Hey all. Just bought a new drivers side driveshaft (well a refurb). Can anyone recommend the cheapest place near crewe in cheshire to get it fitted? Or does anyone fancy doing it for me? . What price do you reckon i'll be looking at, is it a couple of hours work?

 

[Budgie]

Drivers side, 30 mins. Passenger side, 45 mins..

 

[nosluom]

Drivers side, 30 mins. Passenger side, 45 mins..

really? what day do you want me down then budgie haha

 

[Budgie]

If you drive 4 hours each way to get it changed, i'll do it for free. lol.

 

[nosluom]

haha good point mate

 

[Chip-mk1]

DIY if you have the tools, it is not difficult.

Trick to keeping these cars on the road is not having to keep pay for labour I reckon now they are old and not worth a lot.

 

[Cupman29]

You would need a torque wrench capable of 280Nm though which most wont have. Not too much in it and as Chip says, DIY is the way to go.

 

[Budgie]

I have an inbuilt torque wrench.

 

[nosluom]

i may just have to suck up to dad again. I don't know why i keep posting these threads actually, my dad is a mechanic and probably has the biggest home tool collection in the country. He most certainly has a wrench capable of 280Nm, its bloody massive!! I just hate asking to do stuff for me because i know he hates having to :/

 

[Jay.S]

You have a perfect opportunity to learn, instead of asking him to do it for you ask him to show/teach you.

 

[nosluom]

hmmm you have a good point there! i'll try taking this route with him

 

[Chip-mk1]

Sounds like the ideal father/son thing to be doing, even these days (im knocking 40) my old man still gets involved when im working on cars, although often its now me leading and him helping out rather than the other way around as he doesnt know much about modern cars (which to him a 172 still is one)

 

[Coops Mk1]

as above, get your old man to show you the ropes and you'll never look back. driver side shaft is literally a half hour job max is the hub nut plays ball and bugger torque wrench for a hub nut, just do it up as tight as mighty mouse would

 

[nosluom]

cheer guys! the driveshaft was actually changed about 5 months ago with a second hand one that has now gone wrong so everything should come away pretty freely (dad always uses copper grease). The ball joint was replaced last week as well. God if anything else goes wrong this year i'm getting rid for sure