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Title: CAN I BORROW
Post by: Range Rover Blues on February 03, 2009, 20:58:40: Has anyone near me got an X-Eng halshaft tool, or anything similar that I can borrow please (reasonably local) becasue I've snapped the short front halfshaft off in the diff, no way am I doing that in this weather.

X-Eng are out of stock :(
Title: Re: CAN I BORROW
Post by: v8kenny on February 03, 2009, 22:06:45: Hope you manage to get hold of one.........................................I'd be interested to see if they actually work
Anytime I have snapped a front half shaft in the past it's never been easy to get the stump out even with the diff on the bench without resorting to violence !
They always seem to break in a twisting fashion meaning the splines get wedged together......................maybe it's just me :)
Title: Re: CAN I BORROW
Post by: muddyweb on February 03, 2009, 22:17:05: I've always just taken the other shaft out, put a bit of rod through the diff and given it a smack... if it is going to come out at all (without a proper fight) then it will just pop through the axle casing and can be fished out with a magnet
Title: Re: CAN I BORROW
Post by: Range Rover Blues on February 04, 2009, 17:55:29: NOW you tell me, it's up against a wall in peices. It's the small shaft that's bust too. I thought about buying the X-Eng magnet and a broom handle to do the job, I agree it needs to be a hefty magnet.
Title: Re: CAN I BORROW
Post by: karlo on February 04, 2009, 20:01:32: like this? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/N52-VERY-STRONG-POWERFUL-COUNTERSUNK-NEODYMIUM-MAGNET_W0QQitemZ190282266586QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_3?hash=item190282266586&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1683|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318 (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/N52-VERY-STRONG-POWERFUL-COUNTERSUNK-NEODYMIUM-MAGNET_W0QQitemZ190282266586QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_3?hash=item190282266586&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1683|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318)
Title: Re: CAN I BORROW
Post by: lee celtic on February 04, 2009, 20:23:36: get a magnet out of a computor hard drive :shock: :shock:

I pulled an old one apart a few years back , we used to stick peoples hammers down with them to the welding benches , they are really really strong :twisted:
Title: Re: CAN I BORROW
Post by: Range Rover Blues on February 05, 2009, 02:10:12: Quote from: karlo on February 04, 2009, 20:01:32
like this? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/N52-VERY-STRONG-POWERFUL-COUNTERSUNK-NEODYMIUM-MAGNET_W0QQitemZ190282266586QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_3?hash=item190282266586&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1683|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318 (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/N52-VERY-STRONG-POWERFUL-COUNTERSUNK-NEODYMIUM-MAGNET_W0QQitemZ190282266586QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_3?hash=item190282266586&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1683|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318)

Ta, I'll tell you when it arrives.
Title: Re: CAN I BORROW
Post by: TDi90 on February 05, 2009, 17:03:33: i do.
but im in hampshire!
;) sorry.
Title: Re: CAN I BORROW
Post by: Range Rover Red on February 05, 2009, 23:34:05: Quote from: lee celtic on February 04, 2009, 20:23:36
get a magnet out of a computor hard drive

This is when we could do with the Fragrant One still being on the scene :lol: I'm looking at one now on the top shelf, but I don't know if it is still useable or not.
Title: Re: CAN I BORROW
Post by: Wanderer on February 07, 2009, 19:55:16: Quote from: Range Rover Blues on February 05, 2009, 02:10:12
Quote from: karlo on February 04, 2009, 20:01:32
like this? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/N52-VERY-STRONG-POWERFUL-COUNTERSUNK-NEODYMIUM-MAGNET_W0QQitemZ190282266586QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_3?hash=item190282266586&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1683|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318 (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/N52-VERY-STRONG-POWERFUL-COUNTERSUNK-NEODYMIUM-MAGNET_W0QQitemZ190282266586QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_3?hash=item190282266586&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1683|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318)

Ta, I'll tell you when it arrives.

Hi Andy,
I've got visions of the poor postman being dragged between any lampposts on the route or the van driver unable to get it out the back of the van without it fetching everything else with it. :lol:

Ed
Title: Re: CAN I BORROW
Post by: Range Rover Blues on February 07, 2009, 20:29:19: Quote from: Wanderer on February 07, 2009, 19:55:16

Hi Andy,
I've got visions of the poor postman being dragged between any lampposts on the route or the van driver unable to get it out the back of the van without it fetching everything else with it. :lol:

Ed

As long as no-one posted a VCR to one of my neighbours.
Title: Re: CAN I BORROW
Post by: MuddyMike on February 08, 2009, 15:41:54: I have pulled them out with the workshop vacuum cleaner.

See, that's the broken bit sucked to the end of a piece of plastic overflow tube.

http://share.ovi.com/media/Muddymike.Land-Rover/Muddymike.10460?sort=5

Mike
Title: Re: CAN I BORROW
Post by: Range Rover Blues on February 09, 2009, 19:01:12: If I tried that the wife would kill me :lol:
Title: Re: CAN I BORROW
Post by: piggysteve on February 09, 2009, 22:09:52: they're good at that you should have heard mine when I usede her pie slicer to plaster the bathroom walls :twisted:
Title: Re: CAN I BORROW
Post by: Range Rover Red on February 11, 2009, 23:44:07: Quote from: Range Rover Blues on February 09, 2009, 19:01:12
If I tried that the wife would kill me :lol:

I take it it's not Chugga that's bust, then. :D

If you want to give it a try, I MIGHT still have the old vac in the garage - can't remember if it went to the tip or not. Let me know.

Quote from: piggysteve on February 09, 2009, 22:09:52
they're good at that you should have heard mine when I usede her pie slicer to plaster the bathroom walls :twisted:

:-k Did you manage to get a smooth finish on the plaster?