when is the last time anybody has seen a rag joint in a car?
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5 years ago
when is the last time anybody has seen a rag joint in a car?
It happens that Jim GM4DHJ ... formulated :
Go on then, what is a rag joint?
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NY used his keyboard to write :
I cannot recall ever having seen one on a car, though I have come across them on old machinery. I have seen like a rubberized doughnut in the places you describe, serving the same function. I can vaguely remember having fitted one long ago. It came compressed, with a metal band around it, which you cut after installing.
Why?
Lotus Elan on Wheeler Dealers - between rear differential and wheels. They went for CV joints as an upgrade for replacement.
ISTR them on landrovers - though whether that counts as a car or as old machinery I'm not sure.
That's a rotoflex coupling (as also used on the Hillman Imp)
A rag joint uses a flat sheet of reinforced rubber and cloth and was usually used on the likes of steering column joints to provide some small degree of articulation
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Not seen one with the interleaved rubber and fabric in use for quite a while now I've still got a brand new one at least 25 years and maybe a decade older sat in a factory box in the garage. Plus several knackered ones on old Triumph / Lotus racks acquired over the years
The safer, and indeed 'failsafe' replacement is far more common on the road
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Didn't lotus use a rubber rag joint in 70s cars?
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