Soo, Im rebuilding my carrier bearing mounts this evening and there is quite abit of room for interpretation there. I will be up all night and in the shop so no time is too late for the pic to be used!

 

If anyone can snap a pic of that area that shows abit of the relation between driveshaft and floorpan area I would greatly appreciate it!

 

My car is an 89 rx, there are probably a ton of models that would have a similar/same setup so if you have a car in the air that is anywhere close Ill take what i can get!

 

please email pics to

bluto2ooo @ hotmail.com

 

Thanks, Sam

bump up, still looking.

 

Sam

I don't understand - the carrier bearing's posistion is not important - you can just eyeball it. It's just a rubber mounted bearing assembly..... maybe I'm not understanding what you are after?

 

The u-joints insure that it will run without vibration at any angle you put it at within reason. When I installed an EA82 driveshaft in my Brat I just made up some brackets, welded them to the floor, and bolted it up. I eyeballed it with the shaft on jack stands. No issues.

 

Basically posistion it so the first section from the trans to the bearing is as straight as you can get it. Then do whatever it takes to make that happen with the mounts. I just bent up some 1/8" steel flat-bar that I had, drilled a hole for the mount to bolt to and then eye-balled how to bend/shape it so I could get a good fit with the floor pan - cleaned the area and welded it down. Just don't set your carpet on fire like I did.

 

GD

Edited December 9, 200916 yr by GeneralDisorder

i dont want to hit the shifter assy. which unfortunately isnt installed at the moment and i also dont want unnecesary angle. if i line it up dead nuts straight then its mighty close.

 

I really didnt think getting an image of the stock location would be so difficult, guess i was wrong.

 

what a drag.

 

sam

line it up in a manner it wont hit your exhaust. especially if you are putting the driveshaft in a 2wd body, or have 2wd exhaust pipe

Hi Miles,

 

exhaust is custom and not built yet for that matter, with an ej/t swap. chassis is an 89 rx.

 

Sam

Did the RX not come with a 2pc driveline?

my mounts rotted out. the rotten trans tunnel has been replaced, just need to sort out the mounts. if i dont find a pic ill install the shifter assy. and sort it out.

shifter assy. is abit of a pain but not as much as redoing mounts because of interference.

 

sam

I would have no issue getting you a pic but I don't have access to any two-peice EA82's at the moment - all mine are converted EA81's (and EJ's) and the tunnel/etc. is enough different that it probably wouldn't help you (and all mine have mounts that i've fabbed up so aren't stock carrier mounts).

 

GD

From Ausubaru.com:

 

 

And this is basically what I just did when putting in my 5 speed. Usually, a small piece of 1/4" stock is put inside the vehicle too, to reinforce the sheet metal.

Edited December 16, 200916 yr by Speedwagon