neilly
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Hello All,
May seem a strange question, here is the crux of the situation.
I was greasing up my props as you do, looking at the rear prop and noticed it was out of phase. It is a wide angle DA6353. Which afaik should be in phase. Have done a lot of searching on here and others and decided to investigate.
Just for fun, I removed it and checked , it was 3 splines out of alignment with the arrows marked on the outer case. Never had any real vibration issues, But it still seemed weird.
I reassembled it in line with the arrows and refitted to the vehicle, there is no noticeable difference that I can tell.
But then as I refitted it, I wondered if a wide angle prop has a direction it should be fitted, does the outer spline sleeve section go towards either the transfer box or the rear diff? which leaves the main mass of the prop ( inner spline drive) in the opposite direction. It is fitted as it came off.
Cheers
May seem a strange question, here is the crux of the situation.
I was greasing up my props as you do, looking at the rear prop and noticed it was out of phase. It is a wide angle DA6353. Which afaik should be in phase. Have done a lot of searching on here and others and decided to investigate.
Just for fun, I removed it and checked , it was 3 splines out of alignment with the arrows marked on the outer case. Never had any real vibration issues, But it still seemed weird.
I reassembled it in line with the arrows and refitted to the vehicle, there is no noticeable difference that I can tell.
But then as I refitted it, I wondered if a wide angle prop has a direction it should be fitted, does the outer spline sleeve section go towards either the transfer box or the rear diff? which leaves the main mass of the prop ( inner spline drive) in the opposite direction. It is fitted as it came off.
Cheers
