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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 6:35 pm 
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whats the heavy thing for on the front of the ef driveshaft, my xr6 obe doesnt have it?

 

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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 7:02 pm 
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auto's have a balancer, and tailshafts from manual car's dont

although i could be wrong, send a PM to EVL098 to confirm as he went through this recently

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well i just put an xr6 drive shaft in and it didnt have one on it, but its solid and rediculously big on the old one, i took it for a drive and its not out of balance from what i can tell, and it made a small difference compared to the old one

 

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ill upload a pic of it soon once im done cleaning up

 

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this one ? my auto never had it but the manual donor did..... i used it. (5spd conversion)

 

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thats the thing, yeah EVL098 said some manuals have them, some manuals dont and some autos do some autos dont, dono what its for though,

 

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All manuals have them as well as Wagons.

Its similar to a harmonic balancer.

It takes on resonance and harmonics in the tailshaft.

Same reason theres a metal weight on the end of the manual gearbox extension housing.


Getting a Manual XR ally tailshaft is a pretty good score.

 

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must take the vibration out at 240km/h.... :P

wouldn't a standard au ally tailshaft fit an e series ? or are they a different length ? because the arrangement is the same (non-irs)

 

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the xr6 ones in the e series xrs are ally aparently, i dont think the one i put on today was any different to a normal tailshaft except it didnt have this weight on it

 

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Krytox wrote:
All manuals have them as well as Wagons.

Its similar to a harmonic balancer.


That isn't quite right.....EA & EB1 never had the Harmonic balancer on the tailshafts.....although, they did have the rubber mounted weight hanging under the rear of the extension housing.
I thought the EB2 XR6 had a steel tailshaft, as did the EB1 XR8.

 

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My manual xr6 doesn't have a ally tailshaft unless it is dirty cos it looks like a rusty steel one , maybe its Been replaced with a steel tailshaft, I'll have to check it out ,

 

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ef_falcon_95 wrote:
My manual xr6 doesn't have a ally tailshaft unless it is dirty cos it looks like a rusty steel one , maybe its Been replaced with a steel tailshaft, I'll have to check it out ,


Same thing here

 

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I think only EFII XRs/Fairmont Ghia and EL XRs/Fairmont Ghias had the Tickford goodies which had the alloy tailshaft, weights or no weights I'm not sure.

EFI XRs/Fairmont Ghias didn't have them from what I was told.

 

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mine EL XR6 96 didnt have the ally tailshaft only the steel tailshaft.
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Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 6:18 am 
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low_ryda wrote:
wouldn't a standard au ally tailshaft fit an e series ? or are they a different length ? because the arrangement is the same (non-irs)


Pretty sure it doesnt because the au block is shorter so the tailshaft is longer
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