Sorry to ask yet another drive shaft question, but I have searched to no avail. I need the drive shaft length (u-joint center to center) for an early A body manual transmission with slip yoke and 7 1/4 rear end. Thank you.
Drive Shaft Length
- Thread starter RustyRatRod
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I have 5 different Mopar Drive shafts and cant find any matches on the dumb mopar charts.
Yeah that's cause most of them don't show measurements from the right place. lol
bcschief
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Dart would be longer than a valiant 63-66 really only 66 used a slip yoke drive shaft and 67 and later are also different because of wheel base.
Well thank you! That narrows it down then. I need the drive shaft length for a 66 Valiant 2 door seeeeedan with a three speed (or 904) and 7 1/4.
Ugh. That's my car, but it's stuck in the garage with a dead battery and no good way to get it in the air for a measurement. Are you in any raging hurry? And my car is a 2-door post of that makes a difference.
bcschief
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I have one I will measure it for you tomorrow.
Thank you!
Also, if you don't mind, if you would measure from center u-joint to center u-joint on the DRIVE SHAFT itself, not the the slip yoke. Thanks.
doug 371
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Canadian or us 66 valiant? A Canadian 66 valiant is a rebadged dart...
doug 371
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sorry just noticed your location...I'll assume us valiant...
You can use drive shafts from Dusters, Barracudas and Valiants. As long as you use one from a 4 speed, 904 or 3 speed with the 7 1/4 rear. Should not be hard to find. I ran a 71 340 4 speed drive shaft in my 64 Barracuda for years. I had swapped the 8 3/4 rear in to it.
Cuda416
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We have a 65 valiant that had a 170 /6 and 3spd manual. It has a 5.9 and a 904 now. I read somewhere that a 904 sets back the same length. If that's correct, then it's 52.25 (ish). We just measured our car to have a later D/S shortened.
Did anyone ever get a verified measurement? Thanks.
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