Ian's Flatfender

[Flatfender]

Well the vibration and chatter in my transmission has got so bad that I need to do something about it. I thought it was a bearing or something in the NP435 gearbox but as it was worse in top gear than any other I felt it could be the double cardan on the drive shaft. When I pulled the shaft off I could hardly detect any play in the joint but tried locking the front hubs and driving in front wheel drive only. Wow - that was frightening, talk about bump steer, but the chatter had gone indicating that the rear shaft was the culprit. So now I have a rebuilt shaft courtesy of the Transmission Physician in Hornsby. Hopefully the problem will be cured when I refit it but it will have to wait for a while as I am just heading off to Mudgee and Cobar today.