driveshafts

[Green3R]

Think I have excessive play in my driveshafts (the nuts are tight).

Are they standard ST220 shafts?

Anyone recommend a source of decent quality ones, or is OEM Ford best choice?

Thanks

[andygtt]

No the drive shafts are not ST220... they will fit and look similar but they are 10mm too long and thus they will damage your gearbox.

They are in fact ford cougar v6 2.5, but be careful I've bought the 'right' ones before only for them to actually be mondeo... I recon mondeo ones can be used on the cougar without issue.

worse is that for some reason ford changed the splines on the shaft thus the bearing are also different, so you can't out the almost identical mondeo bearings on the cougar shafts.

You CAN buy the outer bearing individually for around £150, but the inner is only valuable with the shaft and is £450

[Green3R]

Thanks Andy.

Not sure whats worn yet, I just noticed that with car jacked up I can rock the wheels back and forth (not side to side) quite a way before the inner driveshaft moves.

as I say, nuts are tight so it's not movement on the splines.

Might see if i can get the rebuilt by local place i've used before.

[andygtt]

before you start stripping the shafts see if the shaft itself moves within the CV joint, hold the joint and try to move the shaft.... could easily be play in the box or hub.

[Green3R]

not the box, as the driveshaft doesn't move.

Hopefully not the hubs!

Will post back here for reference once I've found the cause.