The Law of Sod

[Lord Shagg-Pyle]

It is decreed that if thou shalt work upon the propshaft of your landy, the following will happen:
1) The heavens shall open, and the rain will runneth down the slope and down the back of thy overalls
2) The rain will stop when work hath stopped!
3) The nut that is the most difficult to undo shall be at the highest point where you can't reach it.
4) Said nut will be rounded off.
5) Thy spanner will slip, and you most verily and forcefully strike thy hand upon the underside of thy car and peel back skin.
6) When  said skin has peeled back, blood will issue forth, as will obscenities from thy mouth.
7) At the time of the utterance of the most rude word thy can muster, the elderley neighbour will appear with their grandchild.
8) Upon completion of the job, thy will venture to the cool box and find that thy wife has drunk your last bottle of 12% Bush Belgian beer, you have carefully had chilling for a week!
9) Again, thy shall verily utter much crudeness!


Amen!

[Yoshi]

Well in reply to a couple of the rules:

Firstly the top bolt can be undone by lifting 1 wheel off the ground and turning the prop.

Secondly if you buy a tool from Difflock for propshaft removal it fits perfectly between the knuckles and saves the skin from being peeled!!

[POTASH]

not forgetting stuff falling in eye and smacking head on transfer box because eyes are now closed

[Lord Shagg-Pyle]

Well in reply to a couple of the rules:

Firstly the top bolt can be undone by lifting 1 wheel off the ground and turning the prop.

Secondly if you buy a tool from Difflock for propshaft removal it fits perfectly between the knuckles and saves the skin from being peeled!!

Points noted, but I work on the principle that if the car has not bitten me atleast twice, then it's vampiristic tendenceys have not been calmed, and it won't allow me to get the job done.

[Yoshi]

Well i can safely say that when i did my prop on the rangie like that, there was no pain, no crud in me eyes or anything!!!  It must just be your motor that has these "i like the way i am" tendencies lol

[Jake]

Well in reply to a couple of the rules:

Firstly the top bolt can be undone by lifting 1 wheel off the ground and turning the prop.

Secondly if you buy a tool from Difflock for propshaft removal it fits perfectly between the knuckles and saves the skin from being peeled!!

I couldn't agree more with this
Someone showed me the lifting one wheel trick and it works a treat!
The tool is very handy too ;)

[ian_s]

i couldnt be bothered to lift a wheel up on mine, so i removed the 6 bolts around a half shaft and pulled that out :)

[Yoshi]

The hardest part on propshaft replacement is the refit, thats a pig and a half!

[Lord Shagg-Pyle]

What is this tool? has anyone got a pic or a link? It sounds a most excellent piece of equipment!

[POTASH]

http://www.difflock.com/cgi-bin/wm10/wm10_02606/st/ws20_9800/main/browse.cgi?final_pick=y&cust_cat=Land+Rover+Special+Tools&cat_cat_max=&cust_id=50010129335&in_store=5001&cust_cat_index=16&pick_flag=y&setup_value=1&cleanup=n&item_id=DF180

[Yoshi]

This one!

[Lord Shagg-Pyle]

Sweet! On order!

[V8MoneyPit]

Even with the aformentioned tool, I still find I have to rotate the propshaft. So the Landy still has to lift a wheel like a dog at a lamp post! Well, it marks its territory everywhere it stops anyway!

[extreme90]

or do like ive done...cut a old 6 point 9/16 th socket down....and use a wobbly ended 3/8th extention bar....sorted

o i have got wide angle props which helps alot lol