Hello, it's the EA82 5spd D/R tranny. The tailshaft has about 1/4 inch play in it. (in and out) Is this normal/bad/fluke? Should I be worried?

do you mean the driveshaft where it slides into the rear of the transmission? it slides in and out 1/4"? that sounds excessive if that's what you're talking about. but the carrier bearing allows for some play there, so maybe it's okay, i've never really paid much attention to it. good trans, good driveshaft and everything always seems to work. do you have reason to believe there's an issue with something?

 

what exactly are you looking for and why did you find this? are you trouble shooting something in particular, or installing a transmission or something?

That sound pretty normal to me. Maybe not for a brand new carrier bearing. But for any old one that is normal. (it's made to flex, mounted in rubber ya know). There is never really any load in that direction. And the driveshaft just slides into the tailshaft of tranny, so it's normal for that to slide to whatever degree the carrier bearing allows. As long as the carrier bearing is solid, ie: no cracks or spits in the rubber, no ball bearings fallin out, or other bad signs.

Sorry for the confusion. I meant in the Tranny itself. The Rear output shaft has play in it. This is with the tranny out of the car. So no driveshaft play. Sorry and thanks.

 

Correction: This is [HTi] Johnson, using Savage's computer.

1/4" play along the axis of the shaft is fine. There should be no play in the X Y direction of the universal joints or the carrier bearing.

 

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