I haven't seen this type of an axle on any of the jbody's around here.
It came off of a 96' Sunfire SE with a 5speed 2.4.
The shaft runs from the output on the tranny, bolts up to the motor block and then uses the same size axel as on the drivers side.
I was wondering if theres any difference between this and the other axle that goes straight from the tranny to the wheel.
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Difference is torque steer lol... one is equal length, the other is not.
i doubt its orginal because according to my parts list the 3rd gens never had equal lenght shafts
probably added on from a 2nd gen
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From what I've seen, all the early 3rd gens had those... though what year it changed in, I couldn't tell ya. My 98 had the uneven length shafts, so it's 97 at the latest.
my 95 2.2 had uneven and both my 97 se and GT have uneven
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just checked car-part.com and its a 95 2.3 5spd and 96-97 2.4 5spd thing
learn something new everyday now t he thing that gets me is what cars got them cause my 97 GT was an october 96 built date and it never had it and it was a loaded model just missing auto trans
wonder if its an early convertable thing
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I knew it was a 2.4L thing... I'd never seen it on a 2.2L.
Not sure on the 'verts... all the ones I've seen and owned were auto's.... well, to start at least
Well its off of a Sunfire SE with the 2.4 manual in it.
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my 98 z24 had one with the intermediate shaft like that.
Both 95 Z's I've had came with those and all the 2.2 cars came with uneven length.
As far as I know there is no provision in the block to bolt it to on the 2.2. On both of my v6 swaps I just went with a 2.2 axle on that side instead.
^^^^ thats odd my 95z didnt have that, nor did my 97 both were 5 speeds?
Yep both were 5 speeds.
There is a chance that someone replaced your 95s with an uneven length at some point.
Anybody know what size bolt they use to mount to the 2.4 block?
I thought I grabbed them off of the parts car but none of the bolts I have are working.
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I wonder if it was a mexico vs lordstown thing, because there is a lot of conflicting dates up there. I have a 98 manual Z and i have un-equal length half shafts. The @!#$ty thing is I just bought a new passenger half shaft to put in. If i could have bought one with an intermediate shaft, I will be pissed!
Go Go OG Traction!!
on a 98 you can put the equal length one in its 00+ that gets tricky as the shaft length changed the 96-99 is 5/8 longer then 00+
all my js were mexico and they were un even and my current 99 Zed is ohio and it was un even but 99 didn't come with them IIRC
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