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OK, the DSS Carbon Fiber drive shaft is on!

You'll need a 10mm, 8mm allen socket (both short and long), an E18 socket, plus wrenches and 5/16 allen (both short and long), torque wrench, 15 mm socket and a T60 torx socket.

Here are all the instructions you'll get:



Its not a hard install, but it does take some time...

So, after the Hotchkis, exhaust, and heat shield were off, I began by unbolting the transmission side first. I noticed after I loosened up the main bolts (from the flange to the rubber isolator, that I would be better unbolting all of it so I could easily remove the shaft by myself so, here is the transmission side removed:

The bolts are loosened (I did mark the original position if I ever had to re-install the stock shaft):





Rubber isolator unbolted and separated from the transmission:





Unbolted the rear 3 bolts from the flange of the differential:



Unbolting the drive shaft center support bearing:



Dropped the front of the drive shaft while supporting the rear with a jack stand:





Prepping the DSS Carbon Fiber Driveshaft:

Unboxing, removing the couplers, bag n tag the bolts with the location and torque specs:







Using a automatic center punch, notate the locations where everything needs to line up:

Front:





Rear:





Marking and noting the specs on the couplers:



Now, installing on the transmission:

I used RED loctite on the bolts/nuts that are used on the flange:

Front:







Rear:



Now, I installed the DSS shaft -- this was easy -- I used a jack stand to assist and bolted the front, then the rear (using BLUE loctite) and started the threads to 'just' enough to hold them in place. I verified I had everything lined up:

Front lined up and bolted (57 ft lbs torqued) with blue loctite:



Rear lined up and bolted (54 ft lbs torqued) with blue loctite:





Torqued and ready to measure!



Measured and in spec!





Now, my Detroit Speed Drive shaft loop will be here on Monday and I'll install that before doing the last parts...

-Don