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Identify The Driveshaft! - 7/23/2006 8:53:17 PM

orion6g

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I just jacked up my car to take some pics of my driveshaft. It looks to me like it is a 2-piece stel shaft, but I'm not sure if it is one of the old ones that might pop out? I'm not exactly sure what to look for.

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RE: Identify The Driveshaft! - 7/23/2006 8:56:48 PM

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I think is the old one, because in Afixer's (I think is the name) picture of the new one there are some little clips with a hole at the ends (retaining clips I guess) in the hole where the join is.... I think.

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RE: Identify The Driveshaft! - 7/23/2006 9:19:49 PM

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I think is the old one, because in Afixer's (I think is the name) picture of the new one there are some little clips with a hole at the ends (retaining clips I guess) in the hole where the join is.... I think.

You are correct... on the old one the u-joints are staked in, while on the new ones they are clipped in... The problem is you can actually get the stakes to bend back over allowing the u-joint caps to start working their way out!

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RE: Identify The Driveshaft! - 7/23/2006 9:24:53 PM

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I'm not sure whether to say "Thanks" or "God Damnit"? But thanks for the help.

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RE: Identify The Driveshaft! - 7/23/2006 9:25:12 PM

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OMG screamin I just saw the article about the misstress Congrats that is a fine article and the pictures are really nice!!!

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RE: Identify The Driveshaft! - 7/23/2006 9:28:50 PM

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I'm assuming that the driveshaft from Powerhouse would solve this problem?

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RE: Identify The Driveshaft! - 7/23/2006 9:31:57 PM

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OMG screamin I just saw the article about the misstress Congrats that is a fine article and the pictures are really nice!!!

Thank you! Unfortunately those photo's were from last November... and we had a very busy winter! LOL! But it was a good article... LOL!

Oh.. but the cool thing about the pics... the ones where we're going down the road... I'm driving The Mistress, the photographer is laying on the tailgate of his station wagon and my BOSS is driving the photographer's station wagon! I mean we took half a day off from work to do the photos and then volunteered my BOSS to drive the station wagon! He was geeked!! I have a very cool boss! LOL!

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RE: Identify The Driveshaft! - 7/23/2006 9:33:58 PM

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I'm not sure whether to say "Thanks" or "God Damnit"? But thanks for the help.

Just how often do you drive over 113MPH??? LOL! I mean I trap at 102 MPH and I've made LOTS of passes... my driveshaft is still intact... I double check it every oil change... LOL

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RE: Identify The Driveshaft! - 7/23/2006 9:35:58 PM

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I'm assuming that the driveshaft from Powerhouse would solve this problem?

yes... actually last fall Mike told me about their V6 turbo car bending the stakes back over... they caught it before the driveshaft failed...

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RE: Identify The Driveshaft! - 7/23/2006 9:53:51 PM

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yes as jon has stated here are the stake or pinned areas the new on has clips

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RE: Identify The Driveshaft! - 7/23/2006 11:05:56 PM

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In case i am not meaning to thread hi-jack or anything buts its the same topic, where can you even get a powerhouse driveshaft for our cars? i tried finding one but couldnt because i plan on making the whip a street machine cuz around here cars are a pretty big thing in this small town :)

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RE: Identify The Driveshaft! - 7/23/2006 11:13:54 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: scrming

quote:

ORIGINAL: orion6g

I'm not sure whether to say "Thanks" or "God Damnit"? But thanks for the help.

Just how often do you drive over 113MPH??? LOL! I mean I trap at 102 MPH and I've made LOTS of passes... my driveshaft is still intact... I double check it every oil change... LOL

Day-To-Day... Never. On road trips where I'm trying to set records..... Quite often. Having a driveshaft fallling off going over 113 has trouble written all over it, so I think I'll get one sent to my parennts place and put it on at the begining of my vacation. I'll probably put on my tune and CAI at the same time. Better to have problems with 2 weeks to fix it than 1 day before a 1500+ km road trip

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P.S. How is it that you aren't a moderator by now? You seem to answer more questions than the whole forum combined

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RE: Identify The Driveshaft! - 7/23/2006 11:18:41 PM

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powerhouse411.com

i hope i dont get banned or somin for postin this lol.

http://powerhouse411.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1_3_19

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RE: Identify The Driveshaft! - 7/23/2006 11:22:16 PM

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quote:

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In case i am not meaning to thread hi-jack or anything buts its the same topic, where can you even get a powerhouse driveshaft for our cars? i tried finding one but couldnt because i plan on making the whip a street machine cuz around here cars are a pretty big thing in this small town :)

http://powerhouse411.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_3_19&products_id=86

It was a little tricky to find. Took me a few minutes with google to figure it out.

This is another one I was looking at, makes my mouth water and my accountant cry.

http://www.lmperformance.com/5996/73.html

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RE: Identify The Driveshaft! - 7/24/2006 1:24:09 AM

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Thanks guys your all awesome :D

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