Listers,
Hope everyone had a wonderful British car week. Today I took advantage of the MN
June monsoon to replace my leaking rear transmission seal. On removing the
driveshaft, I found out that I must have a "sliding spline" driveshaft, as it
overextended when I pulled it out and it dropped about 40 little cylindrical
rollers onto the garage floor. I believe there must have a reassembly error by a
PO which allowed this to happen (some kind of missing retainer?).
I figured out how to reassemble it (Haynes didn't even have a picture), but now
I'm two rollers short. What's the expert opinion on leaving it that way? I don't
see how the rollers could get out of position in the closed up spline, but
Murphy is always lurking around. Are these little rollers the kind of thing
someone could find at a driveshaft shop or elsewhere?
Thanks in advance -- this list is the greatest.
Bob Waid
71 Mark IV FK4081L
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