[DeTomaso] Half shaft questions

[P. Rimov]

If you have a bag full of money you could install Dennis Q's full CV set up 
:) Ok so if you don't have a bag of money I would give Wilkinson or Dennis a 
call and see what they have lying around and take the guess work out of it.

Cheers

Paul
----- Original Message ----- 
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 5:00 PM
Subject: [DeTomaso] Half shaft questions


> Just got a call from my local driveline shop.  My half-shafts appear
> to have been sleeved in order to adapt an off-the-shelf spicer
> u-joint.  They are now asking me what to do.
>
> As I recall, sleeving is not a good idea.  Their other option was to
> use a Toyota cap and mill the clips.  Also not a good idea.  A third
> option was to build me new half-shafts at about $300 each (ouch!)  So
> it looks like my half-shafts are stock (haven't been machined) but
> don't have the stock u-joints.  Not surprising really since the car
> has over 100K miles (estimated).
>
> What are my -real- options here?  Anybody have a special running on
> Pantera specific u-joints?  Should I just bite the bullet and get all
> new half-shafts from a vendor?
>
> Idea, options?
> Asa Jay
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