12/5/2007: Driveshaft Done
Picking up the story of the driveshaft, which I removed 4 years
ago!…
I cleaned it up by wire brushing and cleaning with naval jelly. I
painted the pices in Eastwood’s “rust encapsulator” and “extreme
chassic black”. This new ‘extreme’ paint formulation is supposed to
be more durable than their regular chassis paint, but it is very
important to spray thin coats, 24 hours apart. If you put too much
paint on at once, it will take at least a week to fully dry. I found
that one out the hard way..
I installed a new carrier bearing and holder. These are the same as used on
a 124, so widely available from any supplier. I got mine up the street at
Fun Imported.
Then I went to change out the u-joints and made a mistake. I pressed
one of the u-joints too far, and it popped through. I tried to push
it back the other way, and managed to put a deep groove into the yoke.
Real deep. Like, “ruined driveshaft” deep..
So, after cutting out the u-joint to hide my shame, I took it and my
only spare driveshaft to a real driveshaft shop (Overland Driveshaft
Service) and asked them to clean up my mess.
The simplest fix was to take the back shaft from my other driveshaft
and replace its u-joints, then balance it as an assembly with my
original front shaft, since I’d already put the new carrier bearing on
it.
I then re-painted the other driveshaft half, and it almost looks like
I didn’t screw up:
As you can see, I also replaced the flex disc (“Giubo”)
with a new old stock pirelli part, exactly like the one that came in
the car. It seems to be of much higher quality than an aftermarket
one I had bought from a european supplier some time ago. I decided to
not use that one because it had some fine cracks and just looked
cheaply made.
I also found a proper set of bolts (3 long ones for the transmission
side, and 3 shorter ones for the driveshaft side) on one of my spare
transmissions. I cleaned them up and had them, along with the other
driveshaft bolts, re-plated in zinc.
Here’s the new carrier bearing, replated bolts, and new u-joint:
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