[DeTomaso] Half shaft questions

[Tomas Gunnarsson]

The question is, were they bored out oversize before sleeving or not? Are only a few bored out and the rest are sleeved down form the original size? In any case, particularly the latter, I'd be tempted to sleeve the yokes back to stock size and reinstall stock u-joints. Over the last couple of years I and others in Europe have had no problem getting stock size u-joints at reasonable price. We've used this p/n from GKN: 7886100618201 ZKG

Tomas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Asa Jay Laughton" <asajay at asajay.com>
To: <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 5:14 AM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Half shaft questions


> Well, searching the archives has only confused me more.
> 
> Is it possible my yokes were first machined larger, and then sleeved to 
> accommodate the spicer u-joints?  If so, then stock u-joints will no 
> longer fit either.  These guys are pretty good at finding u-joints, and 
> I figure they simply didn't find them because it was a pretty Pantera 
> specific part.  But maybe now I'm thinking it's because the yokes may 
> have been machined and there isn't one that -will- fit anymore.
> 
> Argh.
> 
> Asa Jay
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> asajay at asajay.com wrote:
>> 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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