Sounds like someone did a bootleg repair sometime back.

Plain shafts should be around and easily acquired, as many Vanagons as
there are today being canabalized. The Trannies and Engines go, but I
wonder if there is much demand for the shafts. They don't get used up
like engines and trannies.

Just find a proper shaft.

Good Hunting.

Regards,

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

VWNut Hawk wrote:

>I didn't mean that the other side is necessarily a different.
>I don't have the other side off and can't tell.
>
>All I know is that busdepot shows one CV for 68-91.
>And that it's for manual and automatic.
>But the damn thing I have has fewer splines and won't take
>the new CV.
>Maybe I've got a shaft from a different VW?
>Strange....
>
>
>
>>>>Mike Collum <collum@VERIZON.NET> 12/22/2004 4:37:13 PM >>>
>>>>
>>>>
>Though I haven't replaced the CVs on the axles of my '84 automatic, I
>have
>serviced them.
>
>The left and right axles are of different lengths (which seems to be
>common
>knowledge) but all 4 CV joints are identical.
>
>Mike
>'84 GL 7 pass auto
>'85 GL Westy 4 spd
>
>
>
>>That's interesting. Though I don't drive an automatic, I've read a
>>
>>
>lot
>
>
>>on the sutomatics, and there has been a lot of discussion about them
>>
>>
>and
>
>
>>I have never heard of different numbers of splines right shaft vs
>>
>>
>left
>
>
>>shaft. The lengths are different but this is new one to me.
>>
>>Maybe someone out there really knows.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>John Rodgers
>>88 GL Driver
>>
>>
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