Your best bet is to find good used ones. I have sent back the new
replacements for excessive slop.
Are you sure the play isn't in the diff? The spider gear bushings
deteriorate, then slop develops in the diff.
Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fam Alferink" <p.alferink3@chello.nl>
To: <6pack@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2001 6:13 AM
Subject: Fw: Rear axel driveshaft
> Listers,
> Tonight I found, after some hard rallying last weekend, that there was
a click
> when pushing the car back and forward in the garage.
> It turns out it is not those dreaded diff-mounts but that there is
quite some
> play in the splines of the driverside rear half shaft.
> If I grab the plastic protector casing that is mounted on the inner
side (in
> which the splined outer part slides) I can rotate the shaft by 1 mm
(1/25 of
> an inch) or so while keeping the driverside wheel on the ground. What
I gues
> is worse, I can also move it up and down a little bit (meaning that
the inner
> and outer part can tilt a little with respect to each other).
> Anyone with a similar experience?
> How bad is it (will the splines last another 50.000 miles)?
>
> Pimento 73
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