Prop centre bearing..

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Post Sat Jun 24, 2006 7:31 pm

What would be the symptoms of a tired one..?

Hard/expensive to change?
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Post Sat Jun 24, 2006 7:35 pm

knocking on acceleration,i changed mine 3 times this year already due to an unbalanced prop,i believe its easy for standard cars but mine was a nightmare needing the removal of driveshafts and diff. :x,£18 for the part
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Post Sat Jun 24, 2006 7:40 pm

oh right, no knocking on acceleration..

maybe its the diff bush

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Post Sat Jun 24, 2006 7:51 pm

what symptoms do you have?
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Post Sun Jun 25, 2006 7:48 am

vibration..

2k is worse then it starts to lessen

prop also makes a jangling noise
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Post Sun Jun 25, 2006 12:43 pm

yeah that sounds like a prop centre bearing
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Post Sun Jun 25, 2006 2:56 pm

not to bad then i guess..

gotta change it if im selling or movin it on tho. no point if not as im using an m3 prop for my conversion
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Post Sun Jun 25, 2006 3:52 pm

Sorry to hijack the thread but I have a loud clunking noise if I go round left handers with a bit of pace would it be the diff or centre bearing? I have replaced both before but not had this problem before tho
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Post Sun Jun 25, 2006 4:58 pm

could be the centre bearing,does the noise come from under the car around about the seats area? mine made a loud knocking but that only because it had totally snapped and was hitting off the transmission tunnel,vibration could be that its on its way out.
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Post Sun Jun 25, 2006 5:32 pm

yeah near the back rest kind of area. I've had centre prop bearing problems before and it sounded like a jackhammer on the tunnel and diff went aswell but wasnt so bad the diff made more random noises to be honest like when you took off. I also experience vibrations at about 80mph, I am guessing but this would similarly point to the prop bearing wouldnt it? not huge but you can see the dash wobbling
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