how do you take off the propshaft shield?

[Olivier]

I have looked under the car as I need to see what going on with the prop/ donuts/ uni joint but there is a shiel hidding it, and it look like its screwed from the inside of the car, this could not be right, could it? I don't want to start to take the carpet out to move the shield...
What is the easiiest way to take it out?
Cheers.
Olivier

 

[nick mercedes]

I have looked under the car as I need to see what going on with the prop/ donuts/ uni joint but there is a shiel hidding it, and it look like its screwed from the inside of the car, this could not be right, could it? I don't want to start to take the carpet out to move the shield...
What is the easiiest way to take it out?
Cheers.
Olivier

8mm bolts from underneath?

 

[Olivier]

Hi Nick,
No, there is only the shaft (?) of the bolt, no head, it look like its been bolted from inside, this is where I am a wee puzzled?
cheers.

 

[pos.k]

are all the bolts the same?
could the head have sheared off?
Is the shield loose and rattling / thumping - is that why you are investigating the propshaft in the 1st place.

sorry for so many questions - any chance of a pic? sorry thats another question

 

[Olivier]

Got them. Thank you nick.They were 8mm bolt/washer attached together. Hard to see as they were rusty.
Inverting as I got a clunk underneath and don''t know what it would be.
Sorry, no pictures. Its pretty hard to be under two tons of steel on the side of the road...