Reply to "side shaft play"

Lloyd, your axle play: was it in-and-out, or side-to-side? Some play will exist in any 38-yr-old transaxle from wear in the differential side-gears, both the teeth and the splines, and no one other than RBT will have new differential side-gears available. All other 'ZF overhaulers' do selective matching of used parts, or buy new stuff from RBT when rebuilding. But as long as no gear lube is leaking out of the side-seals, there should be no effect on reliability from a little motion.

Tell me- how do you manage to HEAR such clicking noises in a raucous mid-engined, fiberglas car? In a well-insulated Pantera, I can hardly hear the radio or CB!