Spyder drive shafts - gaiters
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2017 2:04 pm
Dear all,
I just finished a wonderful 2 week trip from Germany to southern Spain with my Elan. We did 5.500 km and the car was very well behaved. What a nice way of wasting time... )
Now inspecting everything, I had to notice that the gaiters of my Spyder drive shafts have failed again. They have done so for the third time within less than a year and about 10 k kilometers, which is not really acceptabe, I'd say. I discussed the matter with the guys at Spyder before, and probably at least one of the failures were due to me meaning too good (which is, of course, the opposite of good..). I greased the CV joints too generously at the inside, which resulted in the gaiters being gradually filled with grease and then failing at high speed cruising. But now, as I have apparently avoided that mistake and done everything right, they have been torn away again...
Now my question is: Has anybody of you who uses the Spyder drive shaft conversion experienced the same unreliability of the gaiters? I cannot really ask this question to Spyder directly, as they will probably not be inclined to to confirm their design being somewhat faulty, would they?
So, thanks in advance for any comments or advice. See attached photo from Andalucia near Granada, for watering your mouth as concerning what we call "Fernweh" in German.
Cheers, Hans
I just finished a wonderful 2 week trip from Germany to southern Spain with my Elan. We did 5.500 km and the car was very well behaved. What a nice way of wasting time... )
Now inspecting everything, I had to notice that the gaiters of my Spyder drive shafts have failed again. They have done so for the third time within less than a year and about 10 k kilometers, which is not really acceptabe, I'd say. I discussed the matter with the guys at Spyder before, and probably at least one of the failures were due to me meaning too good (which is, of course, the opposite of good..). I greased the CV joints too generously at the inside, which resulted in the gaiters being gradually filled with grease and then failing at high speed cruising. But now, as I have apparently avoided that mistake and done everything right, they have been torn away again...
Now my question is: Has anybody of you who uses the Spyder drive shaft conversion experienced the same unreliability of the gaiters? I cannot really ask this question to Spyder directly, as they will probably not be inclined to to confirm their design being somewhat faulty, would they?
So, thanks in advance for any comments or advice. See attached photo from Andalucia near Granada, for watering your mouth as concerning what we call "Fernweh" in German.
Cheers, Hans