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Originally Posted by epdarks
I had a shop look at it a few weeks ago. They recommended new front and rear driveshafts.
Will check for visible issues first as someone mentioned. If I can solve the problem by replacing a few smaller parts then why not.
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Well, that doesn't sound good. But there are a bunch of serviceable components in both driveshafts. Did the shop say what part of each driveshaft was bad? I would think the only bad components that could condemn the driveshafts would be the splines in the front shaft, (perhaps also requiring attention inside the TC), and the u-joint in the rear shaft.
Although if my rear driveshaft had a bad u-joint, I'd take the whole shaft to my local driveshaft shop. Even is there was no way to service the u-joint, perhaps they could cut the joint out, and weld in a serviceable u-joint;(then rebalance). Probably would be a small fraction of the cost of a new driveshaft.
I just don't get how a cars driveshaft should fail at ALL without either serious off-roading,(done that), or high HP drag strip use.