Drive shaft parts, seat heaters

[John Cody Forbes]

Mike Arman wrote:

> It was actually closer to three tons . . .
>
>
> Cody - go back and look in the stash again - there's a complete drive
> shaft, assembled already, balanced and correctly indexed. I bought it
> from Chris Semple. The parts you are looking at came with the dark
> grey car and were never an assembled, complete drive shaft. All the
> parts were there, however, so what you're missing is just misplaced.
> (In other words, keep digging, but you really want to use the
> assembled shaft instead.)
>
> The shaft is balanced as an assembly, not in halves.
>
> On the seat heaters, I understand you can open the seats carefully and
> splice the heater wires. They won't solder so you need to make some
> sort of mechanical connection. The mouse-fur seat set (light blue,
> originally from the 5K-q-t) had working seat heaters, and I *think*
> the heaters in the leather seats I put in that car were working, too.
>
> Let me know what you find!


The injustice that happened here is enough to make me cry. When I moved from 
Florida I wasn't able to make my last trip to get schtuff when I planned, 
then the warehouse building was sold and the new owner increased my rent 
from $700/month to $1350, which I just could not pay after moving and at the 
time working at a $10/hr job. I sold my race car to pay the rent a while 
longer, but couldn't muster enough money to rent a trailer and tow vehicle. 
My father at the time had packed his rig full of shop supplies for his move 
to NC (4 lifts, 200gal compressor etc). So much stuff was lost that it was 
rediculous. In the last days before I turned over the keys I had friends 
still living in the area go grab whatever they could move, including the 
grey 5ktq, but all of the spare seats were lost as was my other white 5ktq 
(that ran!). I don't think that complete driveshaft made it because I know 
none of my friends have a large enough vehicle to move it. So many things 
and so much money were lost, no less then 4 k26 turbos in good shape, a 
T3/T4 hybrid turbo in next to new shape, a 50" wide by 30 yard roll of 
carbon fiber and an equal roll of fiberglass along with my drums of resin, 
tons of Porsche race parts (composite body panels even). It's gut wrenching 
really.


So back to the driveshaft deal. My driveshaft just needs the center support. 
Can I press the center support from the rebuilt shaft and install it on the 
driveshaft currently in my car if I mind the alignment of the yoke and 
u-joint?

-Cody Forbes
http://www.5000tq.com
'86 5k noT noQ
'86 5k noT noQ - Parting Out
'87 5ktq
'87 5ktq - Fast. Really Fast.