Centre bearing on tailshaft

[Dangerjim]

Hi all. First post.
I own a 2002 outback H6. It is making a severe clunking noise under the floor. I checked it out and the tailshaft/driveshaft (shaft from front to rear diff, not sure of specific name) has a fair bit of play in the centre bearing. I have been told that this bearing cant be replaced, that I can only buy the whole assembly for $1300.00. Has anyone else experienced this problem as my parts guy told me thay have had 3 enquiries about the same problem in the last 2 weeks.
Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[tinknocker07]

Welcome to ORS it will help others if you post your location in your profile. The members here are all over the world :biggrin:

Take a look at this link hope it helps.
https://www.subarupartscenter.com/partlocator/index.cfm?action=getJointLocator&siteid=215050&chapter=&Sectionids=23,0&groupid=10047&subgroupid=20112&componentid=60447&make=32&model=Legacy&year=2002&graphicID=F732190&callout=1&catalogid=1&displayCatalogid=0

Nate

 

[d_generate]

Measure it and go to your local Subaru importer/wrecker, you'll probably find a Liberty/Legacy one will be identical and only a couple of hundred to replace it.

 

[mr turbo]

G'day Dangerjim & to ORS.
Sorry I can't help much with the centre bearing issue that you're having, but I'm sure others will be able to help out though.

Regards
Mr Turbo

 

[carljwnc]

Howdy and Dangerjim!!!

Make sure that bearing is the problem, there is probably a reason they can't be replaced, because they rarely, if ever fail. Could possibly be an unbalanced problem?

 

[El_Freddo]

Are you sure its the centre bearing of the tail shaft and not a broken/dodgy gearbox mount?

As someone's already said, go to your local wrecker and grab a tail shaft from a liberty or the like. They should be the same.

My centre bearing on the L series can be pushed around quite a bit yet it still operates fine on the road at speed. The check would be to pull it out and see if there's any play/noise from the bearing when you move it by hand. If its noisy the bearing is dead, much like my wheel bearings at the moment

Cheers

Bennie

 

[eddie351gt]

sorry for bringing up a old thread, if its so hard and expensive to replace the centre bearing, would it be a waste of time to get a custome one peice tail shaft made up?

 

[eddie351gt]

is there a centre bearing which is common to other cars (ie falcon/commodore) which would fit in place of this centre bearing? when i accelerate from stand still, i can hear knocking under (and behind) the drivers seat area. so im assuming that its the centre bearing, (it doesnt make any noise apart from initial (hard) take off

 

[eddie351gt]

would this fit only myu 2000 Gen 3 outback as a replacement? (it says its imprezza, liberty)

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/CENTRE-BEARING-SUBARU-Imprezza-Liberty-CB-MCB109-/380362392801

 

[Rally]

I have a complete tailsaft out of my Impreza I no longer need due to a gearbox conversion. Only done around 80,000k's- maybe a bit more. Excellent condition

 

[eddie351gt]

do you know if it will be a straight swap into a 2000 model outback, mine is manual, aparently the auto tail shaft is different length, where in sydney are you? im in castle hill

 

[eddie351gt]

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