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Can somebody with a 4 spd please look and see if this is sticking out too much. I have a link above to a pic of mine sticking about 3/4" out. I have it all back together and it is leaking slowly around the half shaft seal somewhere. I seen a 2000 Z24 with the 4 spd and his looked like it was only about 1/4" sticking out. If it is sticking out too much, which Im pretty sure of, how do you get it to go in further. I tried using a piece of 1" PVC pipe to tap it in and thats the furthest it went in,