HUP half shafts

[Jonathan Moore]

In May I thought that I had finally had a road worthy HUP and my son and I took it for a test drive. 100yrds down the road there's a bang and we loose drive. I engaged the front axle and had drive, so I knew it was either a diff or more likely a half shaft as I have suffered that problem with land rovers. After stripping it all down I found that the long rear half shaft had broken, in fact it had been broken previously and had been bodged and the ground out to hide the repair. I assume that this had been done to sell the vehicle because the repair wouldn't last long. So the hunt began for a new one. It seemed that there was no chance of finding one, so I decided to have one made. After some hunting I found a couple of companies that could manufacture one, the nearest being a company could Rakeway engineering. All seemed well and they quoted me a maximum turn round of 8 weeks. I left it 10 weeks and rang to see if I could collect the shafts only to be told by the owner that they hadn't even looked at them and, these are his words, "that if I rang back in 2 weeks if he could be bothered he might have a look at them". So the next morning I picked the shafts up and took them the another company GB Engineering. It has taken some time and I have missed the summer but eventually I have a set of new shafts.


Jon