Ceffy Tailshaft...

[AdMan]

Greetings,

Im currently on the lookout for a tailshaft for an A31 to get through regency, the centre bearing has collapsed in mine & the people who have been doing the work for me have been unable to source a part. It's the only thing I need left to get my car back on the road!

If anyone has any idea as to where one might be found, pleast let me know.

Thank you so very much..

Adam.

[daisu]

Is the center bearing in the rear half of the tailshaft or the front half? (behind or infront of the unijoint)

If it is in the front half,

The front half is similar to the R32 tailshaft

get yourself an R32 manual tailshaft, disassemble the front from the rear.

Disassemble your cefiro tailshaft in the same manner.

Notice that the flange that joins the two halves is larger on the R32 tailshaft, hence incompatible.

Use a rattle gun to remove the nut that is securing the flange to tailshaft, and swap the flange from your cefiro half onto the R32 half.

Now the R32 front half will bolt up to your cefiro rear half, using the cefiro flanges. You will need to have the tailshaft balanced.

This is how I did my tailshaft when I did my manual conversion.

If the bearing is on the rear half of the tailshaft,

get yourself an auto tailshaft (may be easier to find than a manual version) remove the front half from the rear half, do the same to your current tailshaft. Swap rear halves over.

Hope that the replacement tailshaft has a good bearing, you will also need to get this balanced.

Just had a look in nissan FAST, you can get a new bearing kit from them, have no idea about price but you could ring them up and ask.

the part code is 37521K and part number is 37521-85L26- description is BEARING KIT-CENTER

[AdMan]

Ay mate cheers...

I ended up grabbing a R32 tailshaft the other day, and took it down and did notice that it was slightly shorter then the Cefiro, but the bloke there who is a mate of mines brother said he can make it work by doing exactly what you just said.

Thanks ..

Adam.