Update: fitted the britpart one piece shafts today. No problem at all and have made a huge difference to the driveline. NS flange splines were far worse than OS interestingly.


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 2015 90 XS Santorini Black

Good job.  Diesels Lives Matter

Britpart items fitted to my sister’s 90 maybe 2 months ago. Might be worth considering some corrosion protection, she’s not worried about minor cosmetics though!



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Although the winter has not been too bad yet, there’s been plenty of road salting around here since around October. Current Steeds:
2015 110 UW in Grasmere Green
2003 BMW F650 the Hack
2000 Elise
1992 Ducati 888 (no longer in bits, yahoo)

Hmm - I painted mine in quite a few coats of satin black before fitting. No sign of corrosion.

Good point ! I will do something to keep the Corrosion at bay.  2015 90 XS Santorini Black

Do Britpart do an equivalent to the 110 shafts? (LR072977 & 072976)


Sorry, just found them on island4x4 (https://www.island-4x4.co.uk/halfshaft-rear-britpart-tob500030-lr072977-p-37449.html)

HMmm double edit; these seem to be for a 90, not 110

triple edit.... island4x4 show the same part number for a 110 also (https://www.island-4x4.co.uk/halfshaft-rear-110130-britpart-tob500030-lr072977-p-37448.html)....

I was under the impression 90's were different from 110/130 ones...

The shafts are the same on the rear. same PN for both since 2004 IIRC Also can be found on Fb, Ytube, Insta & Twitter @4WDSouthwest

Could you use Buzzweld (same as the rear crossmember kit) to protect them, and spray them before fitting? Keith

I think I am just going to smear them with coppaslip like the road wheel flange facing.
That’s should stop it getting bad.  2015 90 XS Santorini Black

There's always something needing done......

Inspired to go and check mine having read through all of the discussion, now added to the list of things to be done when the weather is a bit warmer. Keith

Keith5 wrote:

Inspired to go and check mine having read through all of the discussion

The OS was more worn on mine too on the rear, seems to often be the case regardless of 1piece or two.

Since I replaced mine with Ashcroft all around. (Except CV's etc.) mine has been transformed.

 Diesels Lives Matter

The offside shaft on a Defender will almost always wear faster and be more likely to break than the nearside due to being shorter and hence less elastic. There will be the odd exception but in general this will be the case.

Funny you should say that, because that's what happened to me a few weeks back. 2014 - current ..... 2003 defender td5 90 (my car)
2009 - current .... 2005 zx10r

I wonder if roundabouts maybe anything to do with it? After all there are a lot of them.
After all the NS would spin that bit faster and the OS that bit slower in a clockwise roundabout.

Is there the same occurance on the front on a regular basis? Diesels Lives Matter