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Old 12-23-2021 | 05:45 AM
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Default Rear Driveshaft PSA - splines are clocked
PSA on rear driveshaft removal - the splines are clocked and if you remove the rear driveshaft from the stub shaft at the e brake the splines ARE clocked and must go back in the exact same position.
 
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Old 12-23-2021 | 12:50 PM
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Generally I mark up the prop shaft, brake drum, rear flange , on the rotat flex bolt holes, easy to do with a pin punch just a couple of dots next and on the components or a dab of paint
 
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Why would they be clocked?
 
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Old 12-23-2021 | 06:36 PM
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Because BMW bought Land Rover duh, they needed to make it needlessly complicated.
 
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Old 12-23-2021 | 06:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Extinct
Because BMW bought Land Rover duh, they needed to make it needlessly complicated.
Sounds about right.
 
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Old 12-24-2021 | 10:19 AM
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Balance?
 
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Old 12-24-2021 | 02:07 PM
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Balance?
Only if your manufacturing is so sloppy the two halves are not balanced.
 
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Old 12-24-2021 | 03:33 PM
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That's usual for all manufacturers. It's also a matter of the joints being lined up with one another so there is no strange resonance. It's not so much sloppiness as it is cost effective manufacturing.
 
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Old 12-24-2021 | 09:53 PM
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Maybe, but as a guy who has run design and manufacturing engineering for 33 years I would not let one of my engineers design it to be clocked. It is what it is though, just thought I would let folks know.
 
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Old 12-25-2021 | 12:37 PM
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To expand on the PSA...unless they're aligned, they don't fit back together even if you get impatient and try to finesse them together with a 5lb sledge hammer. Or so I'm told.
 
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