Missing Drive Shaft
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October 13, 2012 02:22 pm UTC
October 13, 2012 02:22 pm UTC
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Pedro Suarez
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"Remove(d) rear axles, remove(d) drive shafts Rear diff. gone bad, in order to repair needs 2 rear axles rear drive shaft, rear wheel bearings, rear diff. assy " A year after buying the car when I finally got it on the road I came across this paper work from a mechanic in the glove compartment of my talon... So I was fairly upset since the seller never told me. sh!t happens Basically my car is running FWD with the weight of an AWD. Now how should I go about fixing this is my question. The rear diff is still on the car and from my understanding can't be too damaged or else my rear wheels would be locked? Could the car even run without rear axles? I also don't understand what he means by the rear diff assembly? The upper drive shaft is also still on the car. I don't know or heard of the mechanic who did the work. Seems sketchy to me... I also know the previous owner did no work on the car himself since he paid this same mechanic to change the pads and rotors on the car (he could just be busy I guess but I don't know) so could this guy just be trying to rip him off? Let me know what you guys think. I have pics if needed This is my first project for next spring when I start to put in serious work into my talon so I'd like to know what I am dealing with.
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Re: Missing Drive Shaft
[Re: Pedro Suarez]
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October 13, 2012 04:21 pm UTC
October 13, 2012 04:21 pm UTC
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Ghislain Goudreau
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Car should not drive in this "configuration", something is definately up.
Look under the car to confirm if the Drive Shaft is present also check if the Rear Axles (CV Shafts) are there.
Ghislain
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Re: Missing Drive Shaft
[Re: Pedro Suarez]
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October 13, 2012 05:29 pm UTC
October 13, 2012 05:29 pm UTC
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Bryan Lawrence
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This is my first project for next spring when I start to put in serious work into my talon so I'd like to know what I am dealing with. Good call!! I think I would go with throwing in the drive shaft and see if the rear wheels move. If they don't then start looking at everything else. Picking up Ziggys whole rear assembly is definitely a good call though! Seems they are auto specific
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Re: Missing Drive Shaft
[Re: Pedro Suarez]
#386698
October 15, 2012 09:13 pm UTC
October 15, 2012 09:13 pm UTC
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Mike Eng
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hey pedro, sorry to hear about this man 1. raise hell, don't rest until justice s served. 2. find those parts (including a new lsd rear diff) 3. install it all. it's easy peezy! 4. welcome to AWD
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Re: Missing Drive Shaft
[Re: Joe Esmama]
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October 16, 2012 03:43 am UTC
October 16, 2012 03:43 am UTC
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Pedro Suarez
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WOW.
Well, what's done is done. All you need to do now is properly correct the missing parts.
If you're in a bind, i dont mind helping you out if our schedule's match up. Agreed. I can't dwell on my stupid mistake, it could be worse. Thanks for the offer Joe, since I won't be driving when I start this my schedule should be easy to deal with as I will probably book off a few days from work to be able to do this in peace. I've been reading a lot of AWD swap write ups so I do have an idea what I'm doing and like I said before as long as there are no special tools needed I should be ok. If I have any questions or get truly stuck I'll shoot you a pm. Free beer of course (or any other beverage of choice) I don't understand. Have you driven it like that? Its been my DD for 349 days straight and then some here and there Probably figured it out when you were "breaking traction" at a light?? How long ago did you buy the car? Have you spoken to the seller since? I bought the car 2 years ago almost to the day. I haven not spoken with him since. Thanks to some poor life choices I was unable to drive the car for the first two months, which meant I started driving in January and only for a month. Even though I THOUGHT the car to be AWD I wasn't about to start trying to launch it or push in the snow especially since I knew I would only be driving for a month. It sat on my driveway for 10 months and I finally get the car on the road, a full year since I bought it basically. It's then that I realize what has happened the number that belonged to the seller no longer worked.
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Re: Missing Drive Shaft
[Re: Pedro Suarez]
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October 16, 2012 03:51 am UTC
October 16, 2012 03:51 am UTC
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Bryan Lawrence
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WOW man I am impressed. As soon as the first snowfall came I was drifting my girl all over the place!!
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Re: Missing Drive Shaft
[Re: Pedro Suarez]
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October 16, 2012 11:23 am UTC
October 16, 2012 11:23 am UTC
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Bryan Lawrence
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LOL once I have a clean recorde (which I while in March) and a solid AWD system up and running we can both drift next winter Sick son! Sounds like a plan!
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