Hey Racer, Does it happen only on the left side? It looks "in the pic." that it is way to short.  Also it looks as if you have the spring under a load and the axle is still too short. You could make a spacer, but if it's only on one side I'd say that your front diff. has been pushed to the pass. side. I hope that helps.


  Kevin

The CV shaft on the left side should be slightly longer than the one on the pass side.  Is there a chance you got one with the shorter shaft?  Also if memory serves the Part of the outer CV that goes on the shaft is offset slightly and can be put on either way making the shaft longer or shorter depending on which way it is put on the spline.  Now you have me thinking Im going to have to look at one of my spares tonight.  Was that shaft you put in brand new or rebuilt?

Are you saying that you put a spacer in on top of the larger front coil springs I sent you?

No i didn't put a coil spacer in. I was asking if I put a spacer in the cv flange to push it out more if that woudl solve my problem.

 Was that shaft you put in brand new or rebuilt?

It was rebuilt  :-/
I have another one coming for tomorrow if i run into the same problem i'm not even going to bother trying to run it. I just don't understand why the stock one lasted so long if i'm having all these problems now.

Before I knew better I replaced mine with a rebuilt one from Auto Zone.

First one lasted a long time.  The rebuilt ones don't.  Try going to a junk yard and get a a used one and try it.

As for a spacer, I think it would work if you can find no other problems.  Take the spring out and reassemble.  Jack up the control arm untill the shaft is level with the floor.  You can now measure the thickness of the spacer you will need before the shaft will bottom out.  Leave yourself around a 1/2" so that as the front end floats around (everything is rubber mounted) you won't bottom out the shaft and try to shove the housing out the other side.

I got a spacer on the way that should work.