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Title: custom prop
Post by: mossy on 19:24 Saturday 14 February 2009

hi dose any one have the phone number of the place in wimborne that do props.
i need to get one made and dont really know how much they do. eg: changing ends, making it shorter or making a whole prop shaft i do know they ballance them
if any one has any info it would be a great help as have started putting my five speed in and need to get that sorted b4 wheels day.
and yes did have to cut a very big hole out to get it in the tunnel !! poor car

Title: Re: custom prop
Post by: Rudie111 on 17:28 Sunday 15 February 2009

Place is called Wimborne Motors, there number is 01202 883534

Price for balancing is around £100, as for modifying i dont know. I can soon make one for you and then you can get them to balance it

Title: Re: custom prop
Post by: mossy on 18:43 Wednesday 18 February 2009

thanks kev phoned them today and they quoted me to make one with new ends at £140 + vat which i throught was really cheep i take it that includes ballancing didnt ask

Title: Re: custom prop
Post by: Rudie111 on 17:15 Thursday 19 February 2009

Cool, i would expect that to be balanced, cant see them selling you a bent one

Title: Re: custom prop
Post by: sparky on 23:54 Friday 27 February 2009

Hi Adam i am going to take the prop off my 30L corsair while i rebuild it so if you want to borrow it to see if it fits (which it should do as you are running same set up) then you can give it to them and say copy this please

Title: Re: custom prop
Post by: mossy on 19:30 Saturday 28 February 2009

that will be great m8 will give you a call about it. got more problems now looks like the input shaft has pushed the crank foward and now pissing oil out all over the garage floor !! cut off what it said to but looks like it wasnt enougth will be dropping box off tommorow to have a look :'(

Title: Re: custom prop
Post by: mossy on 22:11 Thursday 12 March 2009

up date wasnt the crank it was the sump leaking at the rear when i left the box pointing down!! dosnt leak normaly. gear box did make the spigot bearing go bang lots off little bits all in the bell housing wondered what that lould noise was when bolting the gearbox on!  :D
got the clutch release bearing problem sorted i think, had it milled out and seems ok will see what happend when i bolt it up just hope i can get the prop made in time for wheels day

Title: Re: custom prop
Post by: Rudie111 on 18:28 Thursday 19 March 2009

If you get stuck mate i can knock you one up in a few hours

Title: Re: custom prop
Post by: mossy on 20:09 Monday 23 March 2009

thanks m8 but should have it back this week.
got the box in not after having to swap every thing to a different box as the prop would go in !
thanks to james for giving us a hand to get the broken spigot bearing out of the back of the crank only took 2 hours and bleeding fingers what a s**t that was.
also ordered a special speedo cable but that wont fit , been having fun with this swap.
just hope went i get the prop the gear box is ok

Title: Re: custom prop
Post by: mossy on 19:26 Friday 27 March 2009

hi got the prop today  ;D  ;D but the bolts are to short now !! not surprised with my luck , hopefully should have a road test some time at the weekend will let you know how it goes