Hello forum members,
1991 SWB 2.5di
I live in the Netherlands with my Dutch wife, I've brought her over here with our two dogs, one's a Patterdale the other's a Lab cross, to the west coast of Scotland via Newcastle/Ijmuiden for three weeks touring holiday and to visit to my elderly and not too healthy at the moment father.
On our 3rd day here we were approaching a roundabout when we heard a noise as if our exhaust had fell off and was dragging along the ground.
I got out looked underneath but couldn't see anything hanging, got back in and stuck it in gear but it wouldn't move.
On closer inspection I could see that the propshaft was broken in two close to the CV joint in the middle.
I called recovery and got taken back to my father's home where its been sitting for the last couple of days.
I called Ford but they couldn't help me, I've been phoning round the local scrappies looking for a complete propshaft but there's not much to be had for a Mk3.
I'll get down to the nitty gritty now the part that is actually broken is the forward part of the joint the splined socket that connects to the prop section going to the gearbox. This female splined socket has disintegrated leaving my snowy white Westfalia Nugget motionless and forlorn and me pulling my hair out.
I got some info from a conversation I found here (petercb, acarpen9) that the CV joint is the same joint that was fitted to VW Golf/Polo cars from the 9ties. With this info I was able to find one for a Transit on Ebay.
So my question is: if I can manage to source one of these CV joints for a VW Golf/Polo or the Transit version that fits my propshaft does somebody know if I can also get the splined connector part to replace my disintegrated part. I managed to find a photo of a part from a Ford Capri propshaft that looks very similar to what I am after (thanks to martinc92) the piece on the right hand side of the photo.
http://photobucket.com/gallery/user/mar ... anBn/?ref=
Thanks in advance.
Willie.
PS. I would have attached a couple of images but I can't see how to do that, maybe I don't have permission yet I'm a fairly new member.