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kenj38

Member Since: 27 Jul 2017
Location: Plymnouth
Posts: 3

Defender lower steering shaft

After a little help!
I'm rebuilding my early 90 and the original lower steering shaft was pretty rough so thought I'd replace it.
I was advised on a defender facebook group that the new style defender shaft was interchangeable with the old style.
As the new style are cheaper including both UJ's than the old style is without both UJ's, I ordered one from Bearmach - QME500030R.
As you can see from the photo they're very different lengths (and I checked the new one is fully extended).
The original one fits, so I haven't done anything stupid with bulkhead position or sheering box swap.
I see there is a Disco1 shaft which is QME500040. Anyone know if this is longer or shorter than the defender version? I checked the box and it has the correct code, but as they both look the same, I guess it's possible that someone put the wrong one in the box.
Any other ideas?
Thanks.
Ken.

6th Feb 2021 8:29pm

htb2

Member Since: 02 Nov 2018
Location: Carmarthenshire
Posts: 538

Is yours power steering. If manual IIRC some of the manual boxes had a shorter lower shaft, due to a longer input shaft to steering box, well that was the case on early RR.

6th Feb 2021 9:57pm

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