OK like Lois Lane, I'm probably the last one around here to know what everyone else does, but here goes.
When I scrapped GW, obviously I salvaged everything I could including two serviceable drives shafts and CVs. GW was a 93 with ABS.
SP is a 94 and to all intents and purposes an identical vehicle. When I pulled the CVs this weekend they look a bit grim. Not clicking at all, but they'd got water in etc. So having the spare ones all built up ready stored in polythene, I just whacked them in when I had done all the other jobs. All fine so far except the long shaft took more trickery than usual to wiggle into the diff. When I came to put the end caps on, one side simply wasn't right. The long shaft - well the CV in reality end would not come through far enough to get the snap ring on. The short side was perfect. Long story very short, I rummaged in my parts warehouse and found the original flanges from GW that came with the shafts I was reusing. They were the thinner ones. Never having compared any before I never knew what thin and thick looked like. I plopped a thinner one and it was millimetre perfect.
I know that there are two flanges, but I confess that I though they were just pre 93 and 93 on with ABS. I do recall that on GW one drive shaft was always spot on in length and the other had a similar excess to that which I was short this time.
So, can anyone elucidate? I now have one thick and one thin. I can put another thin on on, but then I'll have unnecessary play. The CVs are different left and right. One might be an original but one does look like a copy. I would like the thicker flange as obviously there is more splined section in there. Are various CVs with ABS rings longer and shorter? Point is that the CVs that I took off both worked precisely with thicker flanges.
Confused of Chesterfield
When I scrapped GW, obviously I salvaged everything I could including two serviceable drives shafts and CVs. GW was a 93 with ABS.
SP is a 94 and to all intents and purposes an identical vehicle. When I pulled the CVs this weekend they look a bit grim. Not clicking at all, but they'd got water in etc. So having the spare ones all built up ready stored in polythene, I just whacked them in when I had done all the other jobs. All fine so far except the long shaft took more trickery than usual to wiggle into the diff. When I came to put the end caps on, one side simply wasn't right. The long shaft - well the CV in reality end would not come through far enough to get the snap ring on. The short side was perfect. Long story very short, I rummaged in my parts warehouse and found the original flanges from GW that came with the shafts I was reusing. They were the thinner ones. Never having compared any before I never knew what thin and thick looked like. I plopped a thinner one and it was millimetre perfect.
I know that there are two flanges, but I confess that I though they were just pre 93 and 93 on with ABS. I do recall that on GW one drive shaft was always spot on in length and the other had a similar excess to that which I was short this time.
So, can anyone elucidate? I now have one thick and one thin. I can put another thin on on, but then I'll have unnecessary play. The CVs are different left and right. One might be an original but one does look like a copy. I would like the thicker flange as obviously there is more splined section in there. Are various CVs with ABS rings longer and shorter? Point is that the CVs that I took off both worked precisely with thicker flanges.
Confused of Chesterfield
