Thanks For The Help, More Needed.

[nerb]

Hi there, newbie on the boards. Found the site when looking for info for my 1986 Carina E 1.6 mk2 Automatic.

It was bought new by my grandfather who ended up using it for transporting his bees, in the car and with a trailer (also donated to me). Still smells of honey :-)

I found lots of useful information here now that I am getting the car back on the road and hoping to register it here in France. It got me here when I moved in to my house but after getting an Opel Frontera it has been sitting in my barn for years.

Most things are quite simple for someone mechanically minded like me and not too hard to fix but one thing has me stumped as I don't have a workshop manual.... After a run in with a kerb, it has a knocking sound from the right hand driveshaft. Pretty sure it's the inner end. I've seperated the whole shaft from the drive output and the output has PLENTY of play in it. Not normal me thinks.

Is there an inner bearing inside which the output joint sits, the one with 6 bolts joining it to the CV joint with the boot? If that is the problem and it's a bearing, has anyone had experience getting it out?

Any help would be grateful and if someone has the relevant pages from a haynes or similar to look at that would be spiffing.

I'd really like to give the old girl a new lease of life and my late grandfather would be proud it was still being driven. I really don't want to scrap it.

Also need a main fuse panel and radiator if anyone is breaking an old Carina....my gramps was good at many things but trailer wiring he wasn't! When I first hit France off the boat I lost all rear lights and did a very long "stealth" run at night...lol. Later on, the whole car filled with smoke from using the trailer and lighting at night and the fuse panel MELTED! Some fuses are in there permenantly now so I'd really like to replace it. I know it's a long and fiddly job but worth the effort me thinks. Lots of photos first and remove the seat etc.

Great source of info here and "hi" to all you Carina owners...great cars with great engines and when it went, it was the smoothest drive I've ever had.

Cheers, nerb

[petroleum]

If you mean there is play in the bearing when you try moving the drive shaft up and down right near where it goes into the gearbox unless there is a seperate casing that can be removed from the main gear box casing then i doubt if you will be able to remove it without spliting the box?

Would need to be pushed out from the out side in as the casing will have a lip on it.

If the the oil seal is removed you should be able to see if it has a roller bearing or a taper one if a roller then you might see with supprise that there are not as many rollers in it as you would expect and there fore has play in it anyway!

Make sure that the driveshaft vibration damper has not been disturberd on that side shaft and making a the knocking noise you describe

[nerb]

Make sure that the driveshaft vibration damper has not been disturberd on that side shaft and making a the knocking noise you describe

Thanks for the reply, if it is a problem with the vibration damper, what does it look like....rubber?

Will have another scrabble about under there later.

cheers.

[petroleum]

"yes, its a hard rubber like thick short tube that slides onto the shaft which should have a retaining clip if it has moved and there is no acctual lip or indent on the shaft where it should go, look for any marks on the shaft to where you think it was originally