Driveshaft question and seat heater prices

[John Cody Forbes]

Ok so I have a rebuilt driveshaft here that I've been planning on installing on my 5ktq ever since I picked it up from Mike Armans used Audi parts store (thats a joke - lets just say he had a TON of stuff that I hauled away). I dug it out last night and found all of the bits and pieces that I'd need, except one has turned up missing. The shaft was stored in halves with the center U joint in a box along with the CV bolts and such. Somehow sometime the u joint yoke on the driveshaft half with the center bearing ran away. It just slides on to a spline, and I immagine it's held with a circlip.

My question is about if that yoke is ballanced with the shaft. My only idea is to use the yoke from the driveshaft currently in my car, but I'm worried about throwing the ballance off. Along those same lines I'm curious if the shaft is ballanced half at a time, or completely assembled. There is no key spline, so the yoke can be installed in quite a few degrees of wrong if there is such a thing.


Mike, do you remember if that yoke was with the shaft before, or maybe if it was in one of the other boxes?


As for my non-working seat heaters, well I checked and found both bottom elements bad today in the front seats, though the back elements are ok. List price for new elements? $176 from the local dealer, $141 my cost. I can't spend that kind of money, so I've been thinking about possible repair methods, but for all the work of taking the seat apart I really don't want to be back to square 1 again next fall. Dunno what I'm guna do quite yet.


-Cody Forbes
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