Almost a year ago i bought a 325ix Touring from a local fellow. Swore up and down that the VC is fine and all 4 wheel move together.
Couldnt test it at the time so i took his word for it.
A bunch of things happened with the car, none of which i'm happy about. Lets just say that a "just needs front fenders and hood repainted" has turned into it sitting on jacks with about 4 square feet of sheetmetal cut out in the front passenger wells. I havent even gotten to the rear wheel well rust. 600 bucks worth of replacement panels on order i'm finally ready to "restore" this Touring.
Anywho, when i was jacking it up i decided to performed the jack test.
Nope, nada, rear wheels spin like crazy with zero movement from the front.
So i let it idle in first with the rear wheel spinning and look underneath to see whats up? wait a minute....the front driveshaft is spinning! oh NOES!! front diff is fubared...
So i put it on the lift, remove the front diff cover and everything looks fine. Ring and pinion are there and good, spider gears are there and good....but wait! where's the front left axle shaft inside the case? I dont see it sticking into the diff like the right side. The actual left half-shaft is there but for some reason no shaft protrudes into the differential?
So with nothing stopping all the power to go to the free wheeling side, i have no front drive....
Why in the world would someone do that? What would posses someone to go to the trouble of removing the left half shaft, gutting the diff side and putting it back on?
So next question, anyone got a good left side half-shaft?
Couldnt test it at the time so i took his word for it.
A bunch of things happened with the car, none of which i'm happy about. Lets just say that a "just needs front fenders and hood repainted" has turned into it sitting on jacks with about 4 square feet of sheetmetal cut out in the front passenger wells. I havent even gotten to the rear wheel well rust. 600 bucks worth of replacement panels on order i'm finally ready to "restore" this Touring.
Anywho, when i was jacking it up i decided to performed the jack test.
Nope, nada, rear wheels spin like crazy with zero movement from the front.
So i let it idle in first with the rear wheel spinning and look underneath to see whats up? wait a minute....the front driveshaft is spinning! oh NOES!! front diff is fubared...
So i put it on the lift, remove the front diff cover and everything looks fine. Ring and pinion are there and good, spider gears are there and good....but wait! where's the front left axle shaft inside the case? I dont see it sticking into the diff like the right side. The actual left half-shaft is there but for some reason no shaft protrudes into the differential?
So with nothing stopping all the power to go to the free wheeling side, i have no front drive....
Why in the world would someone do that? What would posses someone to go to the trouble of removing the left half shaft, gutting the diff side and putting it back on?
So next question, anyone got a good left side half-shaft?
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