This has saved me tons of time.
About a week after i installed my new clutch and flex disk, I developed a terrible drive shaft shake. Going uphill was a night mare. Well i was driving home and i floored it in 1st gear anyway cause i was ticked about it shaking after all the work i did and my center support bearing exploded. (should have called that!) I figured i just didn't preload the support, so i went to replace it and I was able to pull out the driveshaft without romoving the exhaust. I removed all of the exhaust hangers and bolts except for all of the bolts to the headers and let it down to rest on a jack stand, pulled off all the heat shields, and removed the drive shaft. One important thing was removing the exhaust bracket attached to the transmission and i could slide the drive shaft out toward the engine on the driver's side.
This saved me tons of time because after i replaced the center bearing support and preloaded the support correctly i still had the problem. So i had to remove it again. I ordered a new drive axle becasue i found out one of my ujoints was actually bad. tommorow and 400 dollars (for rebuilt shaft) later (plus 40 for a new flex disk cause it got detroyed again) i should be back in buisness. At least I hope!
About a week after i installed my new clutch and flex disk, I developed a terrible drive shaft shake. Going uphill was a night mare. Well i was driving home and i floored it in 1st gear anyway cause i was ticked about it shaking after all the work i did and my center support bearing exploded. (should have called that!) I figured i just didn't preload the support, so i went to replace it and I was able to pull out the driveshaft without romoving the exhaust. I removed all of the exhaust hangers and bolts except for all of the bolts to the headers and let it down to rest on a jack stand, pulled off all the heat shields, and removed the drive shaft. One important thing was removing the exhaust bracket attached to the transmission and i could slide the drive shaft out toward the engine on the driver's side.
This saved me tons of time because after i replaced the center bearing support and preloaded the support correctly i still had the problem. So i had to remove it again. I ordered a new drive axle becasue i found out one of my ujoints was actually bad. tommorow and 400 dollars (for rebuilt shaft) later (plus 40 for a new flex disk cause it got detroyed again) i should be back in buisness. At least I hope!
