Driveshaft

[martin_longbow]

My cv joint slipped off the drive shaft at the gear box side doing about 60mph. It worked it's way out the cup the CV joint sits in and I lost all drive with some nice noises too.

After a rebuild (with new retainig clips for the CV joint) there is a vibration of the car and a slight wobble from the steering wheel at about 50. I am thinking there is a bend in the drive shaft caused by the cv joint slipping out. I am getting a mate with a lathe to check the deviation in the shaft tomorrow. There is no play in ball joints bearings etc that i can feel.

Does anyone know if the drive shafts for the Gen 6 JDM 2.0l 3s-fe (1994) model are the same as the uk ones. I am hopeing they are all the same, with the exception being the GT4's

The 3s-fe engine is also fitted to carina's mr2's etc does anyone know if any of those shafts are the same?

Any help appreciated

[TCGT]

hi,

From the Haynes manual it appears that there are 4 different driveshaft types depending on the engine.

It shows that it is only the 3s-fe one that has both left and right identical and appears to say that it is the same as the 2s-e, whichever model that is.

The length should be 17 1/2 inches.

The manual does not give any dates for the 2-se/3s-fe engines.

john

[martin_longbow]

This is what I feared, difficult to match then.

:(