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Overdrive drive shaft

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Subject: Overdrive drive shaft
From: Dave Chu <dave@ece.concordia.ca>
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 22:01:40 -0400

Since I have my dash apart from re-doing the wiring harness I decided to
check the gear box and try to stop the oil leak.   But in the course of
removing the gear box I had to unbolt the drive shaft.  

The car is a 78 with overdrive.  The drive shaft has an U-joint at the diff. 
end and the other end has something like a cover with some rubber dust cover 
on the inside.  Does anyone know if there is an U-joint under the dust cover?
If there is one how do one get access to it without destroying the rubber
dust cover?

The expose U-joint looks and feel fine with no play at all.  I guess there
was enought oil leaking out of the diff. to keep it lubricated ;).

Dave                                                  |\ |     | |      
Dave Chu                                 \/  \/       | /|     | |  
Dept. of Elec. & Comp. Eng.                           |/ |     | |      
Concordia University              Voice:(514)848-3098   Fax:(514)848-2802 
1455 de Maisonneuve W. H961       Email:dave@ece.concordia.ca
Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1M8  http://www.ece.concordia.ca/~dave/addr.html
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