MK 1 Capri Driveshaft
Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 1:53 am
Hello, my name is John Anderson from Palmerston North, NZ. I have recently converted my MK5 Cortina crusader to a 3.0 essex engine. I am having trouble with finding out what size driveshaft to use. I have used a shaft that from a 2.0 auto cortina. The man that does the certification says that I might need a bigger shaft. In my MK1 capri Haynes manual, it vaugely says that the shaft is the same between the V4 and the V6. The picture in the manual, to me, looks identical to the cortina shaft. I somehow need to find out for definate what size they were. The other alternative is having a custom driveshaft made, which will be expensive. Any help would be much appreciated, Thanks, John