Postby Hasbeen » 22 Apr 2010 23:38
Andy, don't get too worried about that prop shaft.
Sure I normally put them back in exactly the same place in my cars,
but I was very pleasantly surprised on one occasion when I didn't.
Shortly after I started using my current car, one of the tail shaft
CV joints started complaining. It would rattle under moderate to
hard acceleration, from a stand still.A CV was packing up. As I had
not decided weather to have one made with CVs, or UJs, I grabbed
the shaft of the other 7 I had been using.
It was fine, so I procrastinated for a while, about deciding on CVs
or UJs, for a new shaft.
A couple of weeks later I needed to use both cars for a while, so I
bolted the other, falty tail shaft on the old car.
Surprise, it worked perfectly, totally silent. It was still fine, a
couple of thousand KMs later, so I left it there.
Perhaps the length of shaft was slightly different, in the different
car, which altered where the CV ran.
What ever it was, that shaft was still in that
car 2 years after I sold it, to a bloke for a daily driver.
Hasbeen
