hilux tailshaft centre bearing/what else now??

Post by **Turbo Tonka** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 2:52 pm

hi all,just wondering if anyone has got a ebay tailshaft centre bearing and if you are happy with quality etc,the price seems ok??id be thinking they all should be ok.mine has recently got a bit squeaky and started to flog out so its out of the lux now and i need a replacement.

thanks

Post by **crispy zook** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 6:54 pm

cant coment on them but the repco ones go alright at $113

Post by **Turbo Tonka** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 8:10 pm

cheers mate,ill see how i go,its one of them things youve just gotta have hey.

Mines a bit out of round now

Post by **Weiner** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 8:14 pm

I have bought one off ebay and its done at least 500km's and its still sweet.

In a bit of mud and dust too

Website · Post by **LuxyBoy** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 8:52 pm

They all die pretty quick

Post by **zero** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 10:03 pm

doing mine at the moment. how do i get the center bearing off?

got the tail shaft apart, but cant see how it can come off? its a 89

Post by **Weiner** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 11:17 am

zero wrote:doing mine at the moment. how do i get the center bearing off?

got the tail shaft apart, but cant see how it can come off? its a 89

Make sure you undo the nut inside the tailshaft and then unbolt the whole bearing assembly and put the new one on.

Post by **v8zuki** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 11:30 am

a good fix for hilux centre bearing is when they are new or
still in good nick remove from car,locate the holes in the rubber tube
that surrounds the bearing mount,inject it with sikaflex and leave to cure for 2-3 days [thats why i use a new one before you have to fit it]
and it will only fail when the actual bearing fails no more flogging out the rubber which is the most common problem

Post by **DIRTY ROCK STAR** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 12:45 pm

sounds like a good tip.
i use one in the front of my truck and the shafts are out at the moment so i will get some sikaflex on the job!

Post by **Nuckingfuts** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 2:32 pm

v8zuki wrote:a good fix for hilux centre bearing is when they are new or
still in good nick remove from car,locate the holes in the rubber tube
that surrounds the bearing mount,inject it with sikaflex and leave to cure for 2-3 days [thats why i use a new one before you have to fit it]
and it will only fail when the actual bearing fails no more flogging out the rubber which is the most common problem

I was told to do this by a tailshaft/transmission shop also, as i was chewing through them pretty quickly

Post by **Turbo Tonka** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 4:28 pm

i will give that a crack myself when the new one arrives this week,my bearing is still good,just the rubber died and is chewing out so this could help,i do stuff all mud driving but dust is a problem

matt

Post by **granborismo** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 5:07 pm

i currently have a ebay special in mine, its done thousands of kays and hasnt stuffed up yet. i was originally quoted $230 for one from auto one. i thought 40 odd bucks from ebay "Why Not".
and also you usually need to use a rattle gun to get the big nut off!.

Post by **Turbo Tonka** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 7:29 pm

cheers granborismo,ill see how my ebay one goes then

i made up a bit of flat bar and drilled holes and bolted it to my flange,then held it and undone the flange nut,worked a treat.

it then took a bit of playing around to get the flange off,just slowly with a hammer

Post by **v8zuki** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 8:03 pm

had a customer years ago that had a 5l hsv motor in his ln106 tray back
only prob he had was the rear ctr baering flogging out,it was his work truck and towed a trailer
put sika in ity and never replaced it in over 60thou kays

Post by **brad 93hilux** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 9:57 pm

i have a repco one, installed it 5 months ago and have done 30,000 kms in that time and it is now stuffed again....

i guess a 4'' lift does not help...

But never tried the ebay ones...

For the price, it cant hurt to try it.

Brad

Post by **bj on roids** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 7:37 am

How good is Sikaflex!!!

Post by **DIRTY ROCK STAR** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 9:51 am

bj on roids wrote:How good is Sikaflex!!!

about as good as a night with your mum.

Post by **Turbo Tonka** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 4:56 pm

well i have just put in my new centre bearing,but it hasnt fixed my problem/what i wanted to fix.

The old one was starting to tear the rubber a bit and when i reverse and get off the clutch it makes this terrible screeching noise and sometimes when i am slowing down.I thought this was the problem as it had a fair bit of loose up/down play at the bearing too.

i just fitted my new one,reversed out driveway still making same sound,any ideas thanks on whatelse it could be

Post by **v8zuki** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 6:08 pm

check the flange on the diff pinion it can squeal when it comes loose

Post by **Turbo Tonka** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 7:16 pm

okm thanks bud,ill have a look it only does it sometimes but when it does its when you take off in reverse or when you are idling along give the accelerator a quick tap and back off,as the car hops/jerks it does it.

ill see how i go,thanks again all

Post by **granborismo** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 7:34 pm

had a similar thing happen to mine, ended up being a shagged uni in
rear section of the tailshaft . pull your tailshafts out and check that
the uni's are moving freely.

Post by **Turbo Tonka** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 7:45 pm

i better keep goin while im under it then,pull it right out,check joints,check pinion flange.i cleaned up the front uni of the shaft,after centre bearing it was still working fine.

Post by **trains** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 10:00 am

A common reason that the center bearing fails, is due to worn uni joints.
If your doing a center bearing, do the uni's too.
Only an extra 70 bucks for the 3 if that, and you know then that any possible issue the uni's caused will no longer be there to ruin your new center bearing.

Love the sikaflex idea, will use that from now on too

T

Post by **Turbo Tonka** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 4:10 pm

all fixed people.

$66 4 3 new unis
$56 for centre bearing
$8 grease

im annoyed at myself for letting it get so bad,in the end the noise was my front uni off the tcase,couldnt move by hand

so i learnt to do unis with the help of my boss and so far its good,no noise and vibration gone that it had at speed too.thanks for all help and ideas,matt

Post by **bravoboy300** » Sat Aug 29, 2009 7:27 pm

hey.. im looking at buying a 89 lux, has been lifted and centre bearing is flogged out... however in 4h it sort of bounces around quite alot... doesnt happen in 2h or 4l... could this be a result of the centre bearing???

cheers

Post by **-DE_LUX-** » Sat Aug 29, 2009 8:01 pm

Go one piece shaft boys. Best thing i ever did. Shits all over the 2 piece. I always grease my shafts every few trips. I,ve had one sieze up and one haudraulic lock from to much grease on a new spline, but yeah 1 piece all the way!

Post by **ferrit** » Sun Aug 30, 2009 2:12 pm

if you hunt around, you can find 1 piece shafts from the hilux SINGLE cab, TRAY top utes of around the 2000 vintage, with the 3.0L NA diesel engine.

I found two in the wreckers, but one had been forked when moving the wreck, paid $330 for a 90,000km old shaft.

this is after i chewed out a YumCha centre bearing, then replaced the whole mess with Hardy Spicer Uni's and centres, and chewed out the centre in about 2000kms!

Post by **SIMMO84** » Sun Aug 30, 2009 5:52 pm

They chew out quick, but they go for a long time after that

Mines been stuffed for about 30 000kms so far

Post by **hilux144** » Sun Aug 30, 2009 8:28 pm

Go a single peice. As soon as u start lifting the lux's they tend to flog the centre bearings and uni's out. Took mine to drive shaft joint, they removed all the centre bearing and mounts. They then extend ur existing piece of tail shaft. No more flogged uni's and centre bearings!

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