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321gazza
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Post Mon Feb 27, 2012 7:42 pm

starting to put my rear end together subframe, diff, arms ect, forgot to mark my driveshafts so i know what side they come from, are they the same length looks like they are. its a 318i 2dr with a 3.64 lsd fitted.
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Post Mon Feb 27, 2012 9:01 pm

yeah there both the same :)
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Post Tue Feb 28, 2012 7:13 am

They are the same length....it is a common trick to deliberately swop the driveshafts over if you are getting some noise from the CV joints. The CVs wear in a certain pattern from going forward most of the time.....swopping them over means that they are rotating in the opposite direction so the new mating surfaces are a lot newer now.
I have done this on two of my E30s and the CVs were quite for many years afterwards....cleaned out and re-greased the CVs in the process of doing the swop-over. :)
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Post Tue Feb 28, 2012 12:13 pm

Thats good to know mate, thanks.