by paracord » November 14th, 2017, 2:41 am
My rear driveshaft was bent also on my A2. Body has fork lifts dents to show it was moved around by one. If you look closely the very back of the shaft is exposed where a fork can slide underneath it. It was very slightly bent , for it is right before it joins the diff. so there is a lot of support there.You have to have it jacked up, eyeball the shaft. and rotate the tire and you'll see it. My project A2 came with an extra rear shaft and it also was BENT, like 1/4" and wondered how in the h-ll did it get that way , bouncing over a log? (driver error) All the mules I rebuilt back when ,most had bent driveshafts for the same reason. I not talking 1 or 2 but about 20 but again a NOS shaft was $5.00 They loaded these 151's on flat cars or around the yard with forklifts a lot of times. Not all operators then were sober and gentle doing it.It was ram and cram and get them loaded ,I'm ready for another beer. Food for thought RedRiver has or had NOS shafts for $80.00 with u-joints. Was listed on eBay. Others want $170.00 That was about a month ago. One more thing, I'm an old pipe welder ,fitter and checked my rear shaft .I had it off the Jeep against a piece of pipe and eye balled it and didn't catch the bend until I was greasing the u-joints and rotating it, then I saw it . It was ever so sightly bent. If I had ran a framing or tri- square up and down it while it was off I would caught it.