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Re: U-joints

To: "Greg Rowe" <growe58@hotmail.com>, spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: U-joints
From: Douglas Braun & Nadia Papakonstantinou <doug@dougbraun.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 09:25:45 -0500
At 06:31 PM 2/16/02 , Greg Rowe wrote:

>BTW, a 78 Spit should only have 3 ujs, one inboard on each
>axle shaft and one at the back of drive (prop) shaft.

This is assuming that the prop shaft is in its original factory
orientation, with the "bean can" CV joint at the front.

The factory service manuals suggest re-installing it with
the CV joint in the rear (and the UI-joint at the front).
I believe this is because the CV joint tends to get
stuck in the frame when you try to install the shaft from
the rear.

Doug Braun
'72 Spit

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