Td5 front drive flange

Need to replace both front drive flange. Any particular make, Britpart! OEM.
I see you can get HD one which vary in price tremendously, worth it?
Road use and some steady greenlaning if it makes any difference

Anaconda said:

Need to replace both front drive flange. Any particular make, Britpart! OEM.
I see you can get HD one which vary in price tremendously, worth it?
Road use and some steady greenlaning if it makes any difference

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depending how worn the old flange is, you might need to change cv joint too as the splines can get worn and will be slack in the new flange.

Yes I guess that's a possibility, previous owner had it all replaced so I am hoping the cv joint will be OK.

Standard flanges last a long time, more so if some grease on splines when fitted.

tottot said:

Standard flanges last a long time, more so if some grease on splines when fitted.

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I think that is where the problem started, the specialists who fitted the replacements didn't grease them, didn't fit a gasket on the drive flange either!
I have bought some OEM one rather than the cheapest Britpart specials.

HD ones are good, but personally I prefer to run standard drive flanges and keep a spare in the vehicle. I would rather be changing a drive flange on the side of the road than something further inside the axle.

These are what I replaced mine with, I kept the better of the old ones in the back as a spare. There are cheaper ones available but these were not expensive either really so went of the OEM ones.

tom1979 said:

HD ones are good, but personally I prefer to run standard drive flanges and keep a spare in the vehicle. I would rather be changing a drive flange on the side of the road than something further inside the axle.

These are what I replaced mine with, I kept the better of the old ones in the back as a spare. There are cheaper ones available but these were not expensive either really so went of the OEM ones.

RUC105200G OEM Drive Flange – Defender/D1/RRC – Twinwoods 4×4

twinwoods4x4.co.uk

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Paid pretty much the same price, see what turns up. Cheap enough at that price.

tom1979 said:

I would rather be changing a drive flange on the side of the road than something further inside the axle.

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This is something that is overlooked by a lot of people. The standard drive flange is the point of failure as the weakest part of the system, if you uprate them the point of failure becomes the half shaft as the weakest part, if you upgrade them it becomes the diff. there will always be a weak link and you want that to be the cheapest and easiest to replace part. Unless you are looking at competition use and upgrading everything (in which case the drive flange is back to the weakest part) there really isn't any benefit.

Forgot to follow up on this.
Bought an OEM part from Paddocks, plain box with part number stamped on it, no indication of who the supplier was.
Anyway it looked reasonably good, it fit and sorted the clunking noise so I guess it's a win.