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question for the limeys - 9/14/2008 10:05:10 PM

NiteTrain

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If you guys call a drive shaft a propeller shaft..what do you guys call the propeller shaft on a boat?

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RE: question for the limeys - 9/18/2008 9:02:40 PM

NiteTrain

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anybody? irish and scottish feel free to answer too.

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RE: question for the limeys - 9/29/2008 4:10:16 PM

Adz

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Hmm... not sure about this one. Drive shaft is the shaft from gearbox to hub on a front wheel drive vehicle - usually. Differential unit on these is usually part of the gearbox or attached directly to the gearbox casing.

Prop shaft is from in-line engine/gearbox/transfer box to front or rear mounted differential in the relevant axle - much in the same way as if you replaced the diff with a propeller the ''prop shaft'' would drive it.

From a remote diff, i.e. Land Rover front or rear axle diff, to the hub the shaft there is called a ''half shaft'' as it''s half the width of the axle.

Dunno if that helps or not ;)

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