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Old 08-31-2011, 11:53 PM   #1
T-Bone Tommy
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Drive shaft length

After droping my truck (5" in the front 7" in the rear) it seems my driveshaft is pushing into the rear of the transmission and causing a leak. Is this normal? should I have shortened the drive shaft? Or did I just screw something up with the angle. Any ideas.
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Old 09-01-2011, 12:06 AM   #2
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Re: Drive shaft length

A lot of times the slip joint has a bunch of crud and dirt built up on it and when you lower the truck the shaft will get pushed into the tranny and the dirt and crud will damage the seal.

Pull the shaft out replace the seal and lightly sand or clean up the slip joint spread some tranny fluid on it and slip it back in.

Make sure it is not going in to far and bottoming out.
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Old 09-01-2011, 12:11 AM   #3
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Re: Drive shaft length

If you used a flip kit, the little brackets should have positioned the axle back to lessen the chances of bottoming out. My trucked looked goofy with the axle back...I was putting a new tranny in my junk, so i redrilled my flip kit brackets so the axle was centered, since i was going to have to get a new driveshaft anyway.
I did notice that the rusty part of the old driveshaft was riding on the seal of the old trans, and i do think that it wasn't quite sealing right.
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