The drive shaft's front U joint went out on my auto trans 1988 635 Csi. A company I am thinking about buying from is showing a two piece "dogleg" drive shaft for 1985 - 1989 cars. My car has a one piece drive shaft. Are they wrong? Has my car been modified or is just their catalog picture and tech guy wrong?
Does anyone know of a company in Northern California that can repair my drive shaft? The bearing cups are staked in place which I understand is a problem for most drive shaft repair places. I have no preference for staked or clipped in.
Could someone please provide the correct OEM part number?
Thanks in advance for help in clearing up this discrepancy.
one or two piece drive shaft
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Re: one or two piece drive shaft
I think your car should have a two-piece propshaft, with a splined joint in the rear section and a centre bearing in a rubber support; I have never seen anything else on an E24. You can find the correct pn by entering your chassis number on realoem or one of the other online ETKs, eg
http://2009.bmwfans.info/parts/catalog/ ... ive_shaft/
The propshaft pns vary depending on the transmission used, the diff used, and whether there is a guibo fitted, amongst other things. Since post 6/87 north American 635 autos don't vary I expect there to be one pn for your car.
I don't know why a two piece propshaft is specified, exactly; it might be to protect the back of the gearbox from lateral loads or something.
cheers
http://2009.bmwfans.info/parts/catalog/ ... ive_shaft/
The propshaft pns vary depending on the transmission used, the diff used, and whether there is a guibo fitted, amongst other things. Since post 6/87 north American 635 autos don't vary I expect there to be one pn for your car.
I don't know why a two piece propshaft is specified, exactly; it might be to protect the back of the gearbox from lateral loads or something.
cheers
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Re: one or two piece drive shaft
I ordered one from BMW about a year ago. The part number is 26111226625 and it's two pieces. My car is a 1988 635CSiA, so automatic as yours is. The manual cars have a completely different propshaft with a rubber guibo, something that is not required for an automatic.
Can't see how it can be a one piece propshaft, which I assume by that you mean it only has two UJs, one at the gearbox end and one at the differential end? If that's the case then it wouldn't have a centre bearing, would it?
Nick
Can't see how it can be a one piece propshaft, which I assume by that you mean it only has two UJs, one at the gearbox end and one at the differential end? If that's the case then it wouldn't have a centre bearing, would it?
Nick
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