Speaking to Nigel Thompson driveshafts, he reckons that the car may have been originally designated as a HDI, with HDI hubs but then fitted the 1.9TD/AL4 TD. The HDI has the longer CV joint stub, but with a 39 (not 34) inner spline.
If there were a few thousand cars to deal with in this way, they may have made driveshafts and CV joints to suit, matching the HDI hubs. The driveshaft was probably made in the UK by GKN (who only speak to car manufacturers).
The only thing is, no supplier has heard of this before, as if I am the only one.
He suggested I use the new (shorter stub) CV joint with the original flatter nut I have, torque it up, with loctite (Which Audi do on their cars). WHat do you reckon, safe eh?
CV joint (MKII ABS) input stub - strange one
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I was thinking this through earlier.
Series II cars have only two different hubs, depending on the "duty" level anticipated of the hub. It's where the track width variations occur.
They also have two possible types of joint, per inner and outer location. Gruntier motors used driveshafts with the larger joints.
Based on that, you'd think there would be three outer stubs. Basic everyday for the narrow hub (small joint), basic for the wider hub (small joint), and heavy duty for the wider hub (large joint).
Series II cars have only two different hubs, depending on the "duty" level anticipated of the hub. It's where the track width variations occur.
They also have two possible types of joint, per inner and outer location. Gruntier motors used driveshafts with the larger joints.
Based on that, you'd think there would be three outer stubs. Basic everyday for the narrow hub (small joint), basic for the wider hub (small joint), and heavy duty for the wider hub (large joint).