dentedfender

Yes the axle on the tranny stubs. and if you grab the outside peice of the axle that connects to the tranny where you have to put the pin in it will move up and down and in and out.

i just put in a 83 tranny into my 84 gl and the cv's can move up and down and in and out about 1/4 of an inch. One of the techs at my work said it was cuz its probally a dl tranny and those use smaller cv's. Is this true? Also what else could be causing this besides them being diffrent sizes? thanks for the help.

thanks ill give it a try tomorrow

I have an 84 gl and was wondering what is the trick to getting the speed ometer cable back into the transmission? I have it on there now all screwed down but the speed ometer doesnt work. I remember it being very hard to take out when i did the clutch. Any help would be great thanks.

ill have to check to still make sure they are tight, i know the other one loosend up on me. If that doesn't help i think ill get a new knuckle and see if that works out better.

I just replaced one of the half shafts on my 84 gl and drove it for a couple days, then romped it alot in the snow the other day and my other half shatf the one i didnt replace started clunking. So i replaced that last night with a new one and the clunking went away. until i drove back up the canyon from town. It seems to do it the most in third gear, and while the car is going on left corners. It doesnt do it on right corners. the sound it makes is like a clunking that can be felt in the car, not hard but enough to feel it. If i pull over and look at it everything is fine, and it drives fine for most of the trip back. It doesnt do it going down hill only up and it sounds like its coming from the front passengers side. Im wondering if i got a bad cv, the wheel bearings are going out, or it has something to do with the suspension. Also i am not running a sway bar if that makes a diffrence. Any help would be great, thanks. Jacob.

what all would need to be bought and fabed?

you can also use an air hammer for the front cvs just put it in the hole on the end of the shaft and hammer it out. Makes it a 5 second job.

so there is no kits or other models that you can take a turbo off of and bolt it on a ea81? i would love to have a turbo on my ea81 if it was cheap and somewhat easy.

i tired to crack it loose today but it didnt budge, so i gave it a shower in wd 40 and pbblaster. For the lock nut I would need to tighten it correct? to bring it away from the outer tierod?

Not the ball joint, the outer tie rod off of the inner tie rod, ball joint is already off.

I cant get the outer tie rod off of the inner tie rod on my 84 gl and was wondering if anyone had any tricks to getting this part off? thanks, jacob.

if your talking about the tierod ball joint just hammer right off to the side of the ball joint, on the tie rod. You could also put a nut on the balljoint and make sure it is more than 3/4s of the way on and hammer on that directly on the ball joint.

here it is now alot worse looking than it was but getting it off the trailer messed it up. So i know that im gonna need a new cv shaft and bottom ball joint, fender, wheel, tie rod end, and the hub part that connects to the brake rotor. Im pretty sure i dont have to get a new knuckle because can't i replace the bottom ball joint, the one thats broken in the picture. Let me know what you think ill need and if anyone has any of these parts. Thanks Jacob.

Yeah well the story behind it is i bought it for 100$ with the clutch out and brakes and the exaust was shot so i spent 200 on brakes and a clutch made an exaust out of my buddys old exaust. So i was rushing cuz i wanted to drive it and only tightened down the lug nuts with the wrench when the car was still up in the air, and the tires wernt touching the ground. I pulled it into the garage to weld up the rest of the exaust and was so excited by the way it sounded i drove it and forgot to crank them. So yeah thats the story behind it but i got it home today and the bolt connecting the knuckle to the a arm was broken. Ill get pics of it tomorrow when i have it all jacked up. So do you think all i need to get for parts is a new knuckle and cv and tie rod end?