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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: bellers on 08 March 2011, 15:25:51

Title: Propshaft
Post by: bellers on 08 March 2011, 15:25:51

Can anyone point me in the right direction of a reasonably priced propshaft, mine has decided it doesnt want to be in the car.  local motor factors dont sell them and dont want to get secondhand as i dont want it going again soon

thanks
jonny

Title: Re: Propshaft
Post by: Liam on 08 March 2011, 16:05:20

Prop shaft would normally be considered a vehicle life item, so I'm not surprised motor factors dont do them. Your only choice for new would be vaux or having one made to spec by a prop saft maker like Bailey Morris. Both will cost you dearly.

But bearing the above in mind - that they are generally considered a vehicle life item, and the vast majority happily last that long, you should have no problem with a used one. Ideally go for one with as low mileage as possible and inspect the joints yourself for wear.

A middle ground compromise could be to buy any old scrapper item, then have the joints rebuilt by the aforementioned specialist (assuming meggy prop UJs are the rebuildable type - dunno, never checked).

Title: Re: Propshaft
Post by: Rods2 on 08 March 2011, 16:27:24

Typed "vauxhall omega propshaft" on ebay and it came up with about 10 secondhand ones for sale. Prices varied between £15 and £40, but all were for 2.0, 2.5 or 2.6. I don't know if 2.5 is different to 3.0?

Title: Re: Propshaft
Post by: dad1uk on 08 March 2011, 17:18:14

Try these in Wolverhampton.
http://www.driveshaftuk.com/

Title: Re: Propshaft
Post by: bellers on 08 March 2011, 20:48:35

thanks for info. for going secondhand will all v6 manuals be the same fitment?

Title: Re: Propshaft
Post by: 2woody on 10 March 2011, 09:28:02

all V6 manual same

Title: Re: Propshaft
Post by: bellers on 17 March 2011, 09:27:08

Another quick question are the auto and manual props different?

Thanks
Jonny

Title: Re: Propshaft
Post by: TheBoy on 17 March 2011, 09:45:20

Quote

Another quick question are the auto and manual props different?

Thanks
Jonny

I believe they are different...

Title: Re: Propshaft
Post by: bellers on 17 March 2011, 12:16:09

Thanks proving a bit hard to find here in northern ireland. May have to sign up for ebay. Found an auto one but no manual ones

Title: Re: Propshaft
Post by: rickmv6 on 17 March 2011, 17:42:41

autos are different  they are different lenghts