Axle Rebuild Identification help

NPT90

Well-known member
So I have what I think are D1 axles front and rear (discs front and rear) which I believe to be 24 spline.

Front:
Could be a D1 tube with my original swivels bolted on?
Wide (52MM radius arms)
Caliper non-vented
Pins for Pads (appear to be too long, maybe for vented calipers?)
Swivels (could be anything, would like to do the swivels and preloads while I am doing it)

Rear:
Pretty sure its a D1 rear axle
Caliper non-vented
Clips and cotter pins for retaining clips

I'd like to be able to do the following:
  1. New swivel bearings (front, top and bottom)
  2. New axle seals (front and rear)
  3. New wheels bearings (I believe these are standard)
  4. Stub axles (I am guessing the bearing surfaces are shot or in poor condition, at $22 a kit its probably worth replacing them)
  5. Prop shafts (mine are certainly on their last legs) recommendations would be nice

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NPT90

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its a RHD so if they used d1 axles they would have had to swap the swivels I imagine
 

NPT90

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Did the bearings last weekend, did the drop arm balljoint (super easy to do in the vehicle, might have taken me like an hour).
After that I still had a bit of a wobble, my steering bar boot was torn so I replaced that.

And after all of that, including replacing the steering balljoint I finally found the culprit:

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#1 in the photo (main steering shaft) was actually installed upside down, made the steering geometry between the steering column and the steering box terrible. Since the bolts 'lock' the U-joints (#2/#3) into place there was no risk of them 'falling out' but essentially it caused the u-joints to fail causing a bit of play in the shaft. All of this combined with the shaft being loose definitely caused the failure of both the drop arm ball joint and the steering arm end (#3 below).

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Fixing this upside down arm, tightening the bolts on the arm has removed 90% of play in my steering (went from 8 degrees to about 2). I presume when I install the new u-joints on the arm (#2 and #3 in the first diagram) that should about take out the rest of the shake.

Actually this video shows the symptoms perfectly:

Steering wobble

The original poster of the video noted that the steering arm u-joints had failed and after I inspected it was clear that was the cause.

Long story (well, still long) if you have a wobble it might be a good idea to check that arm for play. It forced me to do my wheel bearings (long overdue) but ultimately I think it ended up costing me a lot more in pre-mature failure of components that simply shouldn't have endured so much undue wear because of improper installation.

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