Front propshaft - which way?

[JBW]

Hi, refitting front prop shaft on my 2.5TDi after replacing starter motor. marked front & rear flanges for alingment on refit. Put it all together yesterday evening. Drive down road today - really back knocking through floor in 2nd gear. Could be UJ is out of whack after the shaft has been off, but what worries me is that I might of inadvertantly spun the bloody thing through 180 degrees and have fitted it rse about face.

Haynes book is of limited use - says ' fit sliding section forward'. As it's a telescopic arrangement, which bit is sliding? - one half slides over the other half, whilst from another view point actually one half is slidng into the other half of the shaft. Great! Thanks Haynes.

Any experience/views (other than i should have marked front & back - hindsight!!!)?

So which should it be female or male part of telescopic propshaft to the front?

Ta VM. JB

[nitromotor]

Short bit of prop

[nitromotor]

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[JBW]

Top man Nitro. Will get my overalls on and get to work.

Thanks for your prompt feedback.

Regs. JB

[JBW]

Different propshaft to yours. But I checked with drawing in haynes manual it was on the right way.

It was to left hub, auto lock mechanism as far as I can tell. I turned the propshaft when the vehicle was in neutral & on axle stands I got a click on the LH nearside hub.

So I took it down the road. went into 4wd. Back into 2 wd. Reverse then forward. Clunking noise stopped!

Think this happened cos I tried to put it in 4wd drive & 1st when undoing prop shaft bolts. this helped hold the prop shaft against compression.

Anyhow, thanks for your help. This problem solved - now on the the next. Lack of power, engine free revs in neutral or in 1st but wont rev above 2000 rpm in 2nd 3rd or 4th. Suspect ECU is in some sort of 'safe' mode. See next post.

Ta. JB