Reply to "1/2 Shaft"

Hell indeed. I've seen maybe a dozen very expensive ZF cases cracked like a walnut from a loose halfshaft flailing around, and a few more with the whole inner fender panel destroyed. This last is also bad 'cause theres a brake line 2" away that also gets ripped apart..... Check your u-joints for incipent failure by carefully looking at all the bearing caps. If theres a shiny polished ring showing under the snap-ring, that means the cap is moving in the yoke. And movement only happens when the u-joint needle bearings are beginning to fail. This's one reason why I don't like grease shields or those pretty li'l DeTomaso logo-thingys that get glued in above the u-joint caps. Makes such inspections difficult-to-impossible.