S2 rear driveshafts

[anton]

ar the rear driveshafts the same for the S2 between coupe and avant?? or are the cv joints the same at least??

cheers
Ant

[Acidburn]

Hubs are different on the rear so i'd say they are different.

Why you after some rear driveshafts? i've got some

[anton]

just realised the inner cvs on my coupe are 100 but the v8 diff flanges are 108..same as S2 so i need to convert, think i can grab the ones off geordie but dont know it they'll fit.....

Ant

[Error404]

AFAIK the inner CV is the same on the 3B / ABY coupe & the avant
I had to change mine for the V8 diff swap, but one of the inner joints has some wear

[anton]

thats good news, this is for the v8 diff btw, did you get yours finnished in the end Alex? i cant remember...was it a worthwile upgrade for the 7A?

Ant

[Error404]

never been on the car yet mate

When I was taking the old subframe and diff off to swap thats when i found the rust i'm still in the prcess of sorting out

[anton]

ah yes, i remember....will you be in this same situation after then i assume? converting to s2 inners? bought some POR15 myself after your posts...liks like good stuff...well the pots look good anyway..not opened them yet.

Ant

[speeding-g60]

3B/ABY are 108mm, the non-turbo 5 cyl were 100mm while the 4cyl were 90mm.... inner cv flange sizes.

[Error404]

Well I bought two S2 rear driveshafts to solve the problem, but one of them has a worn inner CV so need to replace it.

[anton]

right, well looking at some posts on motorgeek it seems that the 108 and the 100 CVs have diferent internal splines and are as such non-interchangable so liiks like i need new complete driveshafts.....so question remains, are rear shafts the same between coupe/avant?? any ideas??

Ant

[Error404]

bummer
At least you can keep your CQ outer joints as spares though.

Its weird, the S2 shafts are also loads thinner than the CQ ones IIRC

[anton]

yeah well i have no intention of selling the car so will need new ones eventually...., hopefully the avant ones are the same tho as this could work out very well for me.

Ant

[anton]

well i managed to take a look at the family album and it seems that all inners are the same as error said, and i'm fairly sure the outers are too. altho the pn for the outers are different i noticed the s2coupe shares the same pn as the saloon and i'm not too convinced they are geometrically different. the problem is actually a fairly basic one lol the coupe has two different lenght driveshafts sinve the diff isnt symetrical where as the avant is the same both sides......no such luck so guess this is now a wanted post for some S2 coupe drave shafts...cheeper the better will send about some pms too

Ant