hi will be pulling the engine of my car today and was wondering how the driveshaafts come off. do they just slide off ?
thanks nathan

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1969 mini k

take your wheel off, then disconnect your top ball joint and they just slide out

Most Clubbies these days have `pot joint' at the inner driveshaft ends.
These will slide out during engine lift if you remove their rubber boot clips first.
If they don't, undo a top balljoint and pull the driveshaft outwards.

Do watch the 6 balls in each don't roll out of sight...

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

crap i forgot about the boot clips .. best get onto that this morning :S

Depends on what sort of mini it is in respect of the connection of the drive shaft to the gearbox.

There is three types
Hardy-Spicer type uni Joint which is next to the gearbox on either side and simply has four nuts and bolts to be undone.

Rubber uni joint which is held in place by a number of U-bolts and nuts that need to be undone.

Pot Joint type found on rod change type gear boxes. You have to drop the top ball joint on the wheel hub unit and then pull the whole assembly towards you. It just slides out but be careful as the cage contains six balls a side and these will fall out if not careful. No big deal as long as you dont loose any. You do not have to disconnect the bottom ball joint

Oops sorry - wasn't trying to steal thiunder or repeat information from anyone - just answering a question - didn't type fast enough.

laughed for about a minute, i had the same prob i thought they just fell out when you lift him up, but no world of engineering had to make it tricky, go with splitting those ball joints,

this shows how much trouble i had, once you know how i reckon i could do it in an 1.5 hours but having no idea it took me all day and most of the night,

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Top tip when putting it all back together, assuming you have Pot Joints. Put the balls back in place on the driveshaft, grease them up and wrap tightly with GLAD WRAP. The Glad Wrap stops the balls falling out when you are re-inserting the driveshaft. The glad wrap wears away in a few thousand kays and has no detrimental effect on the joint.

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Brett Nicholson
Greendale (near Ballan) VIC.
1971 Morris Mini Moke
1966 Austin Mini
1965 Morris Mini Traveller
1973 LR Series 3 88
2007 LR Freelander 2

i put the engine back in my mini last week and the new grease was sticky enuogh to hold the balls in,

if your lucky you have the bolts on the front of the head, dam they were helpful, i used the bolt and the spot where the engine steadies go,

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so how did it go

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so how did it go, post was at 8:45 in the morn, i 'll be very embaressed if it got out before 3

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nope not done yet dad was spraying furniture in the carport and the wind blew the overspray on the cars that were out the front so he had to wash all four to get it off and that was about 3 so yeah we made our pulling out frame thing though hopefully soon

thanks for all the help
nathan

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1969 mini k