Ok, guys...
my rear bearing support for the prop shaft is completely gone, so the shaft bangs around the inside of the bearing housing (the rubber is gone, and the housing bent a bit, because the car was being treated the proper way even before I got my grubby mitts on it.)
I got two new ones from Mazdaspeed Motorsports Development, one for the front and one for the back.
However, I didn't actually read the manual first, and it looks like the U-joints (or bearing cups and spiders, as the manual calls them) and snap-rings are to be replaced, rather than re-used, when they're taken off.
I was just wondering, has anyone actually re-used the U-joint parts, or even had to take apart their prop shaft? I'm not exactly sure WHY they would need replacing if they're still fine. We only ever did it on the trucks when I was growing up when they had obvious wear and were failing. But those were big sloppy 1-ton truck u-joints, not precision-made Mazda parts that use the snap-rings in varying thicknesses to determine the torque on the u-joints....
--sarge
my rear bearing support for the prop shaft is completely gone, so the shaft bangs around the inside of the bearing housing (the rubber is gone, and the housing bent a bit, because the car was being treated the proper way even before I got my grubby mitts on it.)
I got two new ones from Mazdaspeed Motorsports Development, one for the front and one for the back.
However, I didn't actually read the manual first, and it looks like the U-joints (or bearing cups and spiders, as the manual calls them) and snap-rings are to be replaced, rather than re-used, when they're taken off.
I was just wondering, has anyone actually re-used the U-joint parts, or even had to take apart their prop shaft? I'm not exactly sure WHY they would need replacing if they're still fine. We only ever did it on the trucks when I was growing up when they had obvious wear and were failing. But those were big sloppy 1-ton truck u-joints, not precision-made Mazda parts that use the snap-rings in varying thicknesses to determine the torque on the u-joints....
--sarge
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