[s-cars] Driveshaft aka propshaft Swap

[brian hoeft]

Chris, If you are swapping the whole driveshaft, you would not only have to
get the exhaust out of the way, but also the crossmember and heat shields..
Some may say leave the crossmember, but the bolts are easy to get at. Tap in
your socket good for those CV bolts.

I came up with a trick for alignment of the driveshaft using some duct tape
and old wiper blade metal inserts to just touch at the tips on each side of
the DS (perpendicular to it). .. This was after using paint marks not
considering how the ears on the bearing were slightly different but the DS
is what really needs to be straight.

My spare driveshaft lasted about 6 months before that rubber failed, so this
will give you the opportunity to have your current DS rebuilt.

-Brian





On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 8:54 AM, chris chambers
<fastscirocco_2000 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Gentz,
>
> My driveshaft's support bearing rubber bushing is junk, luckily I have a
> spare
> shaft in my Rossato-bin.
> I checked the couple of references on swapping the shaft and only read
> about
> replacing the joints/bearing.
>
>
> http://www.s-cars.org/postnuke/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=88&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
>
> http://www.elektro.com/~audi/transmission/<http://www.elektro.com/%7Eaudi/transmission/>
>
> Is it as simple as drop exhaust and swap shafts using the marks from the
> old
> shaft to line up the replacement shaft?
>
> Thanks
> Chris
>
>
>
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