TheoKitcar

Hello to everyone. I am building a kitcar (Haynes Roadster) using Ford Sierra drivetrain and an MV Agusta F4 1000 engine!

Yesterday i concluded the refurbishment of my Sierra driveshafts and CV joints.
A good clean and powdercoating and they look as new.
The problem is that when i bought my Sierra diff and driveshafts, these were dissasembled, i mean the diff had not the driveshafts bolted on but seperate.
As you can see in the pics below, one face of the shaft has a "star" stamped on it while the other has a number of circular marks. The question is which face goes to diff side and which goes to hub side? i remember reading somewhere that if you install them the wrong way around, they tend to break!
I have ordered a Sierra Haynes manual but if you could help me until it arrives, it goes well.
Any help greatly appreciated! Thanks!









[Edited on 7/1/12 by DRCorsa]

tosh

Did you find out the answer to this mate, I dismantled mine to refurb them about 4 months ago and made a note of the positioning of everything else but this, and to be honest I didn't notice them markings until I came across this post,

It would be nice to know as I'm hoping to put mine back together next week.

TheoKitcar

Yes, i found it.
Star end goes towards the hub end!
Cheers

tosh

Much appreciated, how did you find out in the end I have both the cosworth workshop manual and a Haynes one, but there's nothing in there about this.

TheoKitcar

Yep, there's no info about that on any workshop manual.
I found that out by a couple of people who were dismantling their driveshafts.
Both of them confirmed that the star end goes to the hub.
One of them dismantled 2 sets of driveshafts and all of them were installed that way.

tosh

You are a gent, thank you

TheoKitcar

My pleasure to help!

Sonic Boom

iTrader: (11)

Does it really make any difference real thou?
As i've just had mine refurbed and then just bolted them back up with no thought to having the star end facing the hub, and they all fit and work fine.
Rich