Disco 1 UJ size?

Having had a nasty rumble over about 20mph I was advised to replace the UJs on my front prop shaft. It came off easily enough but I was unable to get the existing UJs off using my basic tool set up so handed the whole shaft to a local garage together with the OEM parts I'd sourced from Rimmers. Garage rang me back to say the parts were the wrong size, I asked him to get the right ones. Just heard back again and the ones two of his suppliers provided based on registration of the Disco were the same as the ones I'd got (cups too small). Did late D1's (mine's an R reg) have a different size than earlier ones?

Thanks in advance

RichardIStone said:

Having had a nasty rumble over about 20mph I was advised to replace the UJs on my front prop shaft. It came off easily enough but I was unable to get the existing UJs off using my basic tool set up so handed the whole shaft to a local garage together with the OEM parts I'd sourced from Rimmers. Garage rang me back to say the parts were the wrong size, I asked him to get the right ones. Just heard back again and the ones two of his suppliers provided based on registration of the Disco were the same as the ones I'd got (cups too small). Did late D1's (mine's an R reg) have a different size than earlier ones?

Thanks in advance

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I know there is some differences between some Landy models with the UJ kits, cannot remember which but a mate has a County and lots of spare bits from series and RRCs, we transplanted a VM diesel and transmission from a classic into his County and ran into some issues with the front driveshaft, but that was a few years back and I cannot remember exactly, but we had bought new UJ kits to do the driveshaft up and though they were for the County for some reason they would not fit the RR driveshaft, it may have been the cup diameters, I'd check with a bearing supply place their catalogues should show any different kits you may be able to buy.
The only other possibility is someone has fitted a custom made shaft for whatever reason.
The important parameters for UJ's are the yoke bore sizes where the cups fit and the between circlips dimension across the yoke bores, there are catalogues by Hardy Spicer on the net if you search that will give you what's needed if you have those dimensions.