I promise this will be the last post about these (insert your favorite expletive here) drive shafts until they are finally installed on the car. But...they are now finally done!!
I needed help putting them together properly. So I popped all the parts into a box, put them in the Subaru and took them to John's along with the steering rack, which we already discussed.
After we filled the steering rack with 85W/140 oil, it was all buttoned up with its new rubber boots and clamps then we set it aside. Next up on his bench were the drive shafts. As you can see they have been painted and the CV joint has been swapped.
Before we greased them up, John inspected them to make sure they were put together correctly and cleaned. It is good to have another fresh set of eyes check things out.
Then it was time for greasing up both ends, installing the flanges, and putting the rubber boots on. That was my job as I like to don the latex gloves and slather the grease in. Bad thing is that since my hands were all greasy, there is not a picture of the newly greased joints.
For now, we installed the boots with zip ties until I locate some of the proper strip clamps for the originals. But for now they are DONE!! I have to admit that they are a far cry from when I started working on them. They are now all clean and they work nice and smoothly, unlike when I took them apart with 46 year old ripped boots with crusty grease in them.
They are done and off my bench and it is on to the next thing...whatever that may be. I promise it will be something different like the brake master cylinder or brake calipers or even putting the headlight buckets on.
I received a number of messages this week. Thank you all so much. I needed them this week when I have been bogged down with these long, drawn out drive shaft and steering rack projects.
Thank you for visiting,
Toddy
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