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Here's the dilly, yo.

Something in the final drive of the KM201 in the red-headed stepchild took a dump, so I swapped it with the KM206 I had as a spare from the '87 turbo.

Everything seemed to have gone in fine, the car started and drove no problem. About a mile down the road, the left CV shaft walked out of the trans and I had to tow the car home.

The '87 turbo had equal-length shafts but the '89 has unequal shafts. Is there a difference in the length of the splines that I was not aware of? I did notice that the C-clip on the end of the shaft was not tight, it was kind of drooping down when I slid the shaft in. The left shaft has a bad boot so I'm going to be replacing it anyway.

Have I gotten into something more involved than I anticipated?

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No you should be able to go either way equal or not on the axles. Most likely you are correct the C clip is the bad guy.

I revisited the Colt yesterday and shoved the axle into the tranny enough that I could move it under its own power the 20 yards or so off the street and up the driveway.

I also was lucky enough to stumble across an equal-length shaft in my personal parts department. There is no C-clip on the trans end of that shaft, which makes me think that there is some difference inside the trans that is not allowing the one-piece 'long' shaft to lock into the differential.

However, now I get to convert my car to equal-length shafts. Not that a 4g15 car has a major issue with torque steer, but who knows what the future will hold....

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Does the 4G15 even have the necessary mounting points for the equal length carrier bearing?

It looks like it does. I haven't 'roughed in' the 2 piece shaft yet to be sure I'm looking at the right holes in the block.

But then, I've been wrong before. I'll know for sure within a few days...

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well my km206 had no problems when i swapped my f5m22 for it... as for the equal legnth shafts it will bolt rite in no probs!! this is a odd case by far!

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Well.... the KM206 and F5M22 are (almost) the same tranny...

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Just verified... no, it will NOT fit. The holes on the 4g15 are about 5cm off from the bearing mount. The intermediate shaft is too long.

Now what am I gonna do...

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So if the intermediate shaft is shorter so as to fit properly upon final inspection, would making a bracket be at all feasable to fit the "hub" to the block.
Reason I am thinking of this is the relative ease (with crappy tires!) to break loose to the right, while snowy winter driving. I realise that there are the usual front drive torsional/twist forces involved but would this mod only *reduce* wheel hop, wheel hop+torque steer, torque steer, or a quasi combination of the wheel hop and torque steer.

Any ideas Kyle? or anyone else? I like the idea no matter how far this goes!

Mmmaybe.

I think the bearing has to sit flush on the block, which means anything between the block and the bearing is going to add distance and throw the shaft off center.

I'm trying to upload to my gallery on Paul Mezz's server, but it won't let me. Keeps saying "The document contains no data." when I hit upload. I can send them to whoever wants them in the meantime.

EDIT: The above error was using Mozilla. IE does nothing, I can't even log in. The main and login page load, but none of the links or submission buttons work.

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Well if you have a pillow bearing with a bracket that has one flat side for attachment , could not the flat side be rotated 90 or 180 degrees so that a custom L/upside down C bracket could be bolted to the block and then the flat attachement side has something to attach to. This seems like alot of work, but there must be a way of mismatching some parts to make everything lineup that little bit to get to the block holes.
In my case I think the holes on the back of my block have had the thread rust right out to the point of uselessness. I cleaned everything up but I wouldn't dream of putting bolts in there as it sits ..... hmmmm

If you want to PM me your email address, I'll send you the pics.

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