alhickabee
03-29-2011, 06:28 AM
Hey guys, I have an 86' 200sx se that I bought with a seized ca18et. I'm swapping a ka into it, and everything is pretty damn straight forward with the help of the write-ups over at s12club. But I've come into a little problem with the driveshaft.
Most people use the front half of the ka ds and the rear half of the ca's, virtually the same shafts. I bought what I was told is a 92' ka24de and manual tranny. It didn't come with a driveshaft as the guy i bought the engine from used it on his sr swap. So I drove down to San Antonio last weekend to pick up what I was told was a ka24de mt driveshaft.
After fighting with it for a good 10 minutes it wouldn't go in. I look at the splines and they are quite different. The driveshaft I picked up has two keys (two teeth missing) 180* from each other and the output shaft on the tranny doesn't have a key, it's complete splines all the way around the shaft. I tried searching everywhere but I couldn't seem to find any thing on the spline counts and layouts on the different driveshafts. I'll post up pictures this evening when I get home from work. I just don't want to keep sourcing driveshafts and them not be correct. Anyone have any clue what the spline design on the output shaft of a s13 ka24de mt tranny is? s14 mt? or the driveshafts? Is the SOHC tranny's output shaft different from the DOHC tranny's?
Thanks a lot everyone!
Most people use the front half of the ka ds and the rear half of the ca's, virtually the same shafts. I bought what I was told is a 92' ka24de and manual tranny. It didn't come with a driveshaft as the guy i bought the engine from used it on his sr swap. So I drove down to San Antonio last weekend to pick up what I was told was a ka24de mt driveshaft.
After fighting with it for a good 10 minutes it wouldn't go in. I look at the splines and they are quite different. The driveshaft I picked up has two keys (two teeth missing) 180* from each other and the output shaft on the tranny doesn't have a key, it's complete splines all the way around the shaft. I tried searching everywhere but I couldn't seem to find any thing on the spline counts and layouts on the different driveshafts. I'll post up pictures this evening when I get home from work. I just don't want to keep sourcing driveshafts and them not be correct. Anyone have any clue what the spline design on the output shaft of a s13 ka24de mt tranny is? s14 mt? or the driveshafts? Is the SOHC tranny's output shaft different from the DOHC tranny's?
Thanks a lot everyone!