old style one piece drive shaft?

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johnshop
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so my drive shaft is about to go out, and caught me in a low money time of year ( my job is sort of seasonal, contractor. During winter it sucks.) and i was sourcing the cheapest option, and z1 said that it had an old style one piece drive shaft, i asked what it was the difference, but never replied back, so i come to you guys, and ask, what is the difference between a "new" style and old style drive shaft?


BlackWidowZ
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since your low on money, maybe u can find one in a salvage yard, or find someone parting out a z.

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Seeing as a new 1-piece DS is so cheap I'd go with that rather than a used 2-piece which WILL lose the bearing again. Avoid buying used at all times.

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maybe they mean an older style design of their 1-piece driveshaft?

When I look up driveshafts on Z1's website they have aluminum ones and steel ones, both of which are all shiny and silver. The driveshaft on mine is one piece and also from Z1, but it doesn't look like their current ones. I'm thinking that they meant they had one of these older 1-piece ones laying around which would be cheaper than buying their newer $300+ ones?

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t.mcginley.jr wrote:maybe they mean an older style design of their 1-piece driveshaft?

When I look up driveshafts on Z1's website they have aluminum ones and steel ones, both of which are all shiny and silver. The driveshaft on mine is one piece and also from Z1, but it doesn't look like their current ones. I'm thinking that they meant they had one of these older 1-piece ones laying around which would be cheaper than buying their newer $300+ ones?
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NolimitZ32 wrote:
t.mcginley.jr wrote:maybe they mean an older style design of their 1-piece driveshaft?

When I look up driveshafts on Z1's website they have aluminum ones and steel ones, both of which are all shiny and silver. The driveshaft on mine is one piece and also from Z1, but it doesn't look like their current ones. I'm thinking that they meant they had one of these older 1-piece ones laying around which would be cheaper than buying their newer $300+ ones?
Nail, meet Hammer :gapteeth:
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