It's probably a fair bet the same hold for vanagons.

You're right about Vanagons also. I relate only to the air cooled though.

Stan

On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 16:58:10 -0700 Tobin Copley <tobin.copley@UBC.CA>
writes:
> Speaking for loafs anyway, the following is true, iirc:
>
> 1) left and right half-shafts are the same length on manual
> transmissions,
> 2) left and right half-shafts are different lengths on automatic
> transmissions.
>
> It's probably a fair bet the same hold for vanagons.
>
> There was discussion about swapping halfshafts on the type2 list a
> few years ago, and while swapping is the way to reverse the loadings
> on old CVs, some people had reservations about doing so because the
> metal in the shaft itself had been stressed in one torsional
> direction for many thousands of miles, and the concern was that
> reversing the direction of the "twist" could lead to failure.
> Sounds
> a bit far fetched to me, since a stock-powered bus doesn't exactly
> lift the front wheels on launch, and I've never heard of someone
> destroying the *shaft* itself (as opposed to blowing a joint).
>
> Bus drivers blow joints all the time...
>
> T.
>
>
> At 5:02 PM -0600 7/23/01, Damian Shaw wrote:
> >Beware of swapping driveaxles from one side to the other.  (If
> that's
> >what people are proposing.)  I don't know about Vanagons
> specifically
> >but on Quantums the driveshafts LOOK the same size on the left and
> right
> >but in actuality one is a little longer than the other.  (Despite
> the
> >engine being mounted inline - on transverse mounted VWs one
> driveshaft
> >is significantly longer than the other.)
> >
> >I haven't checked Bentley for the Vanagon but in the Quantum's case
> >Bentley had the lengths of the shafts listed there - some differed
> by
> >mear millimeters.
> >
> >Just a 'heads up'.
> >
> >Damian
>
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