How do I separate my drive shaft to lube splines

[Guest]

It has been a while. Now that the engine/tranny are on the garage floor, how do I pull the drive shaft forward to separate the splines to regrease them? There is a small collar behind the front u-joint that seems to want to turn. What is this collar. Believe it or not, this is not covered in the Bentley.
I remember adding some good grease to the splines several years ago, just forgot how.

Next, I need to put some extra-extra long grease fittings in all my rear u-joints temporarily to get some grease in them. Will remove the long ones and put the small ones back on, or even just a plug. Greasing these joints is quite a trick.

 

[TR6oldtimer]

The collar needs to be twisted off to give access to the splines.

Ray

 

[martx-5]

What you need to do is put in a TR3 driveshaft...they have grease fittings for the spline. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif

 

[AweMan]

Or once you do get it apart drill the female collar and thread it with 1/8 N.P.T. {National Pipe Thread} and install a grease zerk.
The collar should screw off. The threads on these collars could be a real fine thread and may take a lot of turning to remove.
Kerry

 

[tomshobby]

The collar should retain a felt seal that helps to retain the grease. Might be good to install a zerk ahead of the shaft if possible so the fresh grease will push the old out.