Your drive shaft shop is half correct. The stock Datsun drive shaft is
designed with non serviceable u-joints, but a good drive shaft shop is
smarter than the average bear. Mine now has replaceable u-joints in it. It
was $150 for everything, including shortening, rebalancing, and new
servicable u-joints. Point two is also correct, I am using a B210
transmission and driveshaft. Therefore, I must answer your question with a
question. How does the rear seal differ between the two transmissions?
Will the B210 driveshaft slide in the end of the 210 transmission? Will the
210 driveline bolt pattern match the Spridget differential the same way the
B210 driveline does? If so, it should still be a neater fit to shorten the
210 driveline.
David Riker
74 Midget
63 Falcon
70 Torino
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----- Original Message -----
From "David Ramsey" <dwramsey at worldnet.att.net>
To: "David Riker" <davriker@pacbell.net>
Cc: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 9:51 PM
Subject: Re: 5 Speed Tranny Kit
> David, this interests me as my driveline shop claims the the Datsun 210
> U-joints are a non-replacable type and you must buy a new drive shaft when
> they go bad (are they wrong) . Also didn't you use a different tranny and
> clutch set-up, as I recall from a B210? In that case your conversion
would
> have no use for the guys trying to do a 210 conversion. The shield will
> cause problems with either the Morriservice or Rivergate kit no matter
which
> driveshaft you use.
> Crash
>
>
> >Something interesting to note...
> >The stock drive shaft from the donor Datsun has the same bolt pattern to
> the
> >differential as the spridget drive shaft. It bolts right up perfect. On
> my
> >conversion all I did was shorten the Datsun drive shaft
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