I had to replace the unis in my coupes tailshaft took it to Gibbs trucks on the gold coast and as soon as I walked in the guy said (a Datsun 1200 shaft yes) bloody amasing. The bad news is they cannot replace the unis they would have to build a complete new shaft(between a rock and a hard place) so I faulked out my wait for it......$515.and I now have a new shaft front to rear that has replacable joins that should outlast me as the old one was 40 years old .GREG.

Good quality cost a bit, but will be worth it over the long run.

Interesting, I didn't know they couldn't be rebuilt.

Hope my ute shaft fits the sedan.. because I know my sedan one is stuffed.

Cheers

Ed

They can be rebuilt, early ones completely, later staked-in types by using non-standard u-joints. See our Universal Joint article for details.

DD I know Rockford do unis in America but you try finding someone in Australia that has the knowlage and the interest to repair them, all the oldschool guys are gone that I new that were capable of that sort of repair. So we are all stuck with having to get complete new shafts made
PS I have many more tailshafts in the shed that need repair all out of different dattos.

You where hoping to eat baked beans next week mate,might be boiled rice with tomato sauce flavouring now! LOL

Does nt have money to boil the water or the tomato flavour.... just rice

There's a few vids on you-tube specifically about how to remove staked in uni joints and how to fit a new 'replaceable' uni joint. It's not that hard (though I must confess I haven't personally done it specifically on a datsun tailshaft. But as mentioned in this thread, the challenge isn't necessarily 'how to' get the old ones out, it's more a case of sourcing the right uni joints to put in to replace em with.