Started work on reconditioning a spare pickup propshaft and decided that life is too short to fight with UJ circlips. Having read Uncle Frank's recommendation, I drove over to St Neots to Bailey Morris to drop it off with them.
Interesting company, they stock the Marina/Ital/Dolomite centre bearings etc. The sliding spline on mine is so worn that the prop goes 'clonk' as I pull away. They have new sliding splines on the shelf and so can rebuild a complete Marina prop from end to end. They also have the double tube 'cushion drive' front section in standard lengths, so they can even replace that. The guy was telling me that they stock the cushion drive tubing as Ricardo Engineering use them to make up drives for their engine test bed work.
Most of their work is for trucks and farm machinery, but they are happy to do anything for the right price.
http://www.baileymorris.co.uk
