[DeTomaso] Tricks for removing driveshafts?

[Thomas Tornblom]

MikeLDrew at aol.com skrev:
> In a message dated 9/6/07 13 32 41, charlesmccall at gmail.com writes:
> 
> 
>> Anybody have any little tricks to remove this puppy without either enlarging
>> the hole that goes from the engine bay to the wheel well, or disconnecting
>> the exhaust?
>>
> 
> If there's no way to get the big ends out through the hole, why bother?
> 
> The driveshaft is a two-piece unit, you know.
> 
> There is a threaded collar on the large piece, right in the center.   Unscrew 
> that, it slides up, and then you can separate the two halves of the 
> driveshaft and remove each separately.
> 
> BE VERY CAREFUL not to mess up the orientation of these things.   They are 
> lightly stamped with an arrow on each piece to line them up.   You would be 
> better off marking them clearly with paint or whatever.   Take them apart, take 
> them out, then put them back together right away.
> 
> Having said that, I've don't remember having the slightest difficulty 
> removing driveshafts with the exhaust system etc. in place?   So I don't know what 
> you're doing wrong.   Perhaps you're just a klutz. :>)

I have tried to remove my shafts without removing the exhaust, and it it 
failed. There is not enough space between the GTS exhaust and the 
chassis openings to get the yoke out. Might be a problem only on the 
late cars with welded sheet metal there.

It takes no more than a few minutes to remove the exhaust, the header 
can be left on the engine, and I use stainless bolts and nuts and and a 
copper gasket and do it often enough for it to not be a problem. :-)


> 
> Mike (takes one to know one!)
> 

Thomas