Drive Shaft Question
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Drive Shaft Question
My 89 B2 had a bad cv joint on the drive shaft (diff. end), when i tried to get a replacement, local autoparts stores and the Ford dealership told me " not available". I opted to buy a rebuilt shaft.
When I put it in (walmart parking lot, the store was 30 miles from home) everything was fine untill about 40 mph...almost vibrated my fillings out of my teeth. Is it normal to have a rebuilt shaft balanced? I did notice that the new shaft ends are square with each other, the old one was rotated 1/8.
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Jb
89 B2
66 Mustang GT conv.
When I put it in (walmart parking lot, the store was 30 miles from home) everything was fine untill about 40 mph...almost vibrated my fillings out of my teeth. Is it normal to have a rebuilt shaft balanced? I did notice that the new shaft ends are square with each other, the old one was rotated 1/8.
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Jb
89 B2
66 Mustang GT conv.
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Drive Shaft Question
I don't know. When I replaced my CV-style shaft with a single cardan u-joint shaft, I just bolted it in and drove away. I went out and looked at my old CV-style shaft, and the ends are lined up with each other like your rebuilt shaft. I also noticed what appears to be balancing weights on each CV-joint. It sounds like a good possibility that it needs to be balanced.
By the way, where did you get a rebuilt driveshaft? I often see people asking where to get OEM style driveshafts for the BII. Most have a u-joint style shaft put in rather than replacing the CV-style shaft, so it is often difficult to tell someone where to go for the OEM style shaft.
By the way, where did you get a rebuilt driveshaft? I often see people asking where to get OEM style driveshafts for the BII. Most have a u-joint style shaft put in rather than replacing the CV-style shaft, so it is often difficult to tell someone where to go for the OEM style shaft.
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i'm taking it to a friend tommorrow, he suggested rotating the shaft 1/8 turn on the diff. (there are 8 bolt holes on it). the shaft came from advance auto parts...Car Component Technologies 12822.
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i had mine go to the cv shaft repair shop.it was already bad going down the road i accidently bumped the shifter into revere.all of a sudden we hit the dash and then i heard a grinding noise. thought it was the tranny and i was so mad since i was following a blonde to get to her house and also i just had that tranny redone. so we borrowed some wrenches from the house we were in front of and took the back drivshaft off. i locked the hubs and put it in 4H and kept on trucking like one of those fwd cars.
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can someone tell me how i can tell if my drive shaft is going out on my Explorer or not? When i shift it into Drive or Reverse i hear a clunk in the back end. I am a girl, so no i don't know anything about cars. I am trying to keep from getting ripped off before i take my car in.
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What year Explorer ('03)?? The standard 1st test for u-joints is to grab the driveshaft and shake it while watching the u-joint cross. If the cross can move relative to the bearing caps, then the u-joint is bad. That may not make sense until you see it.
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the u joints should not move independantly, since they are attatched to the shaft, they will move the same as the shaft. actually they are an easy fix. probably a 15 dollar part or less each and may only take 45 minutes to do both.