L series rear driveshafts

AndrewT

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Location
Western Australia
Car Year
1988
Car Model
L Series
Transmission
5Speed Manual
Hi all,

I'm just about to get a couple of new rear driveshafts, and just wanted to check - there seem to be two different types available. My car has the "floating" type of CV cup at the diff, and the "fixed" type of CV cup near the hub (the tapered type which looks like an egg cup). But these new shafts I'm looking at have the floating type at both ends. It probably doesn't really matter but I just wanted to check, why are there two different types? My car is an `88 mpfi touring wagon. Surely the rear K frames / hubs are the same between models anyway.
 
The "series 1" came with the double floating cups and the "series 2" only had one with the outer unit fixed ;)

Cheers

Bennie
 
Ah no wonder.
Well I've ordered a pair of them with double floating joints so I'll see if they work in mine, I'm sure they'll be fine.
Trying my luck with chinese ones off Ebay from a guy based in Victoria. "Lifttime warranty, unlimited kms" lol. Wonder how that'd go if he knew the application - way more power than standard, bad angle due to strut top extenders but no K frame blocks, probably a welded diff.
Hopefully they are at least better to begin with than these shafts that have probably been in the car since 1988!

$99 bucks each, may aswell see.
 
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