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Old 03-17-2018, 07:02 PM
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I just installed my mwc fab 9. I already have a pst aluminum driveshaft. It was measured for th400 to 10 bolt. I measured yoke before and after rear swap. The yoke is slide out 5/8 inch more. My yoke is a strange billet. https://www.strangeengineering.net/p...ome-moly.html/
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It's hard to give a yes or no answer without a photo.
If the yoke is only 5/8s out from being bottomed out, you're good.
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From the pics, you will probably be fine. If you need a longer yoke Sonnax sells a long chrome moly TH400 yoke. You can also get the long yoke machined down if needed. I have the long TH400 Sonnax yoke, and I had it machined down when I went to the S60 rear end. It's a tight fit but I managed to successfully reuse my previous driveshaft which was already a 1350 chrome moly PST.

Whatever you do always make sure if you disconnect the driveshaft from the rear end you can push the driveshaft into the transmission at the least 1" before it bottoms out.




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