Drive Shafts

[Guest lopsylu]

No idea if I'm being a bit dense here, but may as well ask anyway. I have finally finished cleaning up the running gear from my donor (2.0 EFi) and have come around to putting the rear suspension back together. I have noticed that the drive shafts are taking an awful lot of pressure to bolt back onto the lower arm (ie they wont sit flush against the lower arm unles I fully tighten the bolts, and that they dont appear to push back into the diff right to the joint cover. Is this normal?

 

Cheers

Graeme.

[Guest daveg]

Hi

 

Sounds correct to me...mine were like that if I remember correctly.

 

Dave

[Guest Taffy Rob]

Yup, I'd agree.

Im assuming youve got it jacked up with no weight on the axle (Itd be a bit hard otherwise!) - when the suspension travels up it will push the joint in (towards the diff) so there should be a bit of movement left. Although the resistance is too much to push in by hand this far anyway.

Rob

[Guest lopsylu]

Thanks for your comments guys. Have now fitted the rear suspension to the chassis adn all seems OK.