Re: Driveshaft Swap???

["Chris DeLong" <green536@hotmail.com>]

<x-flowed>My mistake. DOH!!! Seeinga s how I have most of thee parts from an '85 rocco 
on my car right now I should have been thinking a little clearer.

Just out of curiosity Brett, why did you replace the whole axle and flange? 
Was the inner joint the bad one?


>From: Brett Van Sprewenburg <brett@netacc.net>
>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Re: Driveshaft Swap???
>Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 22:10:56 -0400
>
>> >  your 'rocco should have 90mm cv's and the GTI has 100mm.
>>
>>This is incorrect. From the factory. No 8V A1 cars had 100mm CV axles.
>>(Oops, except late Cabby's...)
>>
>>They can be retrofitted very easily however, and helpful with high output
>>motors if you'd prefer not to swap in new ones every 25k miles.
>>
>>HTH,
>>
>>tiAn
>
>As I'm sure has been pointed out a bunch of times already...this isn't
>quite correct. Many A1 8v Scirocco's (post 1984ish) have 100mm cv's. I
>happen to own an 85 with them for example (yes, they are original). :)
>
>Oh, incidentally, when I swapped in a drive axle from a 1984 GTI, I
>also had to swap one of the tranny output flanges and bearing carriers
>from the GTI so I could fit the 90mm CV joint shaft to my 100mm joint'd
>1985 Scirocco.
>
>==Brett
>
>\/  '84 Scirocco (ITB racer 2B) | "Hot VW's, take two home. They're small"
>\/\/ '88 Scirocco 16v (Show), '85 Scirocco (Winter) | - brett@netacc.net
>
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