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Fuzzbeaner · Joined: 03 Dec 2003 Posts: 236 Location: Central MA

Well, I found a place about 45 minutes away that will do a cut, weld, and the ever crucial balance for a mere $75, so I think I'm going to go for it. Not to mention, as for added peace of mind, the ever generous Vince Ponz has offered up a spare driveshaft should something go horribly wrong. Thanks man!

Anyways, the time has come to pull my faithful driveshaft out. Remember, I don't have an engine to get in my way, so hopefully this won't be too bad!

Does anyone have any tips or tricks for doing this? I have a Haynes and some other C beginning manual for the 924, does anyone know what pages to look on? Hopefully this will be a low stress task which I can complete after work tommarow - but I know it won't be!

Thanks everyone,
-Jeff
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kaffine · Joined: 13 Jun 2003 Posts: 644 Location: Las Vegas

There is a coupler at the transmission remove the 2 allen head bolts and slide the coupler towards the transmission. Get a pair of vise grips with rubber jaws or something to protect the shaft. With the vise grips grab the shaft near the bell housing and use a prybar to pry forward it may take awhile it you should be able to get it out that way. Putting it back might be a problem since there are bushings that fit between the shaft and the bearings I can't remeber what way the face originaly but they might get disloged either when removing the shaft or installing it.

Since you have it apart this for you might want to replace the bearings for the torque tube although that will require the trans to come out it would eliminate the problem of the bushings though. You will want to measure where the bearings are so you can put them back in the same place. To remove the bearings after the shaft is removed spary WD-40 on the inside of the tube if you can spary it behind the outside bearings as well. Use as large a pipe as you can fit in the tube and pound the bearings out the front of the tube. When getting new bearings get ones with the same outside diameter but with a 20mm inside diameter instead of the 25mm that came out so you don't have to reuse the bushings that are between the bearing and the shaft. The bearings are held in large rubber coated bushings the bearing can only come out one way when putting them back in you want to put them in so when installing the shaft you can't force the bearing out of the bushing.
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Fuzzbeaner · Joined: 03 Dec 2003 Posts: 236 Location: Central MA

Well, this brushing dislodgement will make or break my plan. I really don't want to deal with redoing all the bearings and removing the whole tranny/torque tube. I will if I have to, but I really would prefer if I could get by without doing it...

Can anyone who removed a 924 driveshaft describe their experience with this?

-Jeff
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Lizard · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 2:44 pm Post subject:

just leave the TT in place and pull the tranny, once the tranny is out then the TT will just slide out
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Fuzzbeaner · Joined: 03 Dec 2003 Posts: 236 Location: Central MA

Ok, I'm going to try pulling the driveshaft clean without any torque tube fooling. If I end up dislodging the brushings, I'll go through the hassle of re-doing the torque tube, but I've heard some real horror stories about it...

Oh the things I do in the name of progress!!

-Jeff
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