Quick Question about removing/installing driveshaft
#1
Senior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Canada
Posts: 634
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Quick Question about removing/installing driveshaft
I just did a auto to manual swap in my car and well...to tell you the truth, i dont know how to get the bloody driveshaft on. Do i have to remove the mounts and slide the engine and transmission forward and then onto the driveshaft and onto the rear differential? Is there anything special i should know about this procedure? I was just wondering because thats the way i had to get it off since it wouldnt slide forward or back due to it being rust welded to the rear diff input shaft.
#2
Old Fart Young at Heart
iTrader: (6)
Take the rear bolts out, pry the shaft forward until it drops free from the pinion flange, then pull out of the tranny. Either put a pail under the tailshaft or drain the tranny first. Install is in reverse order. Fwiw, auto and manual shafts are different legths.
#3
Senior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Canada
Posts: 634
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
yeah i knew that thanks. Ive got a replacement. And they are only different when the auto has overdrive? Anways, i got one from a manual car. Ive got the driveshaft out, just wondering on how to put the new one in. So basically i can bolt the trany in before the driveshaft, thats basically all i needed to know.
So how do you fill the manual trans up? 80-90 right?
So how do you fill the manual trans up? 80-90 right?
#5
Odd. I never have transmission fluid drip out when I remove my driveshaft. ...ack. Even when I just got it home from the local dealer, and they had just put a new throw-out bearing, pilot bearing and new clutch in; and I changed over to a new Mazdatrix aftermarket shaft. Isn't it a sealed system?
#6
Senior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Canada
Posts: 634
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
no it isnt a sealed system, the end of the driveshaft is supposed to seal the system. So when you take it out, it should spill everwhere. It did when i took mine out because i forgot to drain the oil in the first place. So wheres the oil filler on these manual tranys?
Trending Topics
#11
voo doo witchdoctor
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Texarkana, Arkansas
Posts: 365
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
^uh oh, i had my car on ramps when i changed my tranny fluid. i filled the fluid to the hole and it took more than 2 qts. does that mean i overfilled it? what can that do to a transmission?
#12
Old Fart Young at Heart
iTrader: (6)
Full fill is less than 2 qts. I doubt the extra will do any damage, other than add a little, miniscule, drag on the tranny gears. If the tranny has the breather vent at the top, you may get some leakage. I have found a few overfilled trannys and they had no issues.
#17
Senior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Canada
Posts: 634
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Tell you the truth, i was just driving around one day and i hit a water puddle after bringing the car to 7 grand on a straight stretch and the car went "click click click" during idle. Well i thought it was just the inspection plate so i never payed attention to it until the next day it was more like "clunk clunk clunk" so i had a look under neath and the inspection plate was missing, so when i hit that water puddle i guess the cold water came up and hit the "flexplate" causing it to crack, then to shatter after a couple hours of driving it like that. Now it lay in about 8 pieces on my garage floor.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
Jeff20B
1st Generation Specific (1979-1985)
73
09-16-18 07:16 PM
SakeBomb Garage
Group Buy & Product Dev. FD RX-7
8
10-09-15 10:05 PM
Nosferatu
2nd Generation Specific (1986-1992)
7
09-05-15 02:13 PM