FWD conversion "until further notice" done. Have put a few hundred miles on it already, seems to be holding fine. @scot850 you asked me to list what I used to hold the collar sleeve in place. To be clear, I don't think the collar sleeve on this car is going anywhere, but just in case, I di...

That's good info vtl, thank you! Does that apply to 99-00 as well, or only p2?

Well... I finally got outside today (it's been a busy couple of months) to pull the drive shaft and angle gear and see where we are. Where we are is that the collar sleeve is fine, but the teeth on the angle are 100% destroyed, almost nonexistent. I suspect this will be a permanent FWD vehicle until...

Ah. @scot850 that is good intel. I'm trying to remember the inner diameter of that axle seal, but basically, something like this would do the trick, no? https://coastalcollars.com/products/40mm-diameter-clamping-two-piece-shaft-collar-303-stainless-steel (Assuming that I get out there with a caliper...

Thanks for all your help guys! I think the plan is:

- Wait for a warmish (relatively speaking) day
- Pull the prop shaft and the angle gear
- Drive FWD for a bit and figure the rest out when it's sunny and warm

Okay, that's what I thought. I was so busy paying attention to the rear end the other day that the fact that the shaft was rotating didn't even strike me until much later. :-P Yeah, I've done CV axles and prop shaft on multiple cars so this doesn't feel much harder than that. So here's a question—I ...

I just realized this morning out of the blue—that drive shaft should not have spun, I think, when I was rotating the wheels in the rear. The car was not in neutral, the parking pawl was engaged and the rears were off the ground but the fronts were on the ground. The fact that rotating a rear wheel s...

Hmm, just realizing that for an '02 is should be a viscous coupler at the rear, which explains the lack of a Haldex AWD fuse. But we're getting into territory that's beyond me a bit. Any advice accepted.

Hi all, So was turning into a parking lot '02 the other day and there was a clear, momentary grab / bind out of the rear right (it seemed to me). Stopped what I was doing and drove the car home (about 0.5 mi). I've now put another ~2 miles on it with ears open. There are what can best be described a...

Thanks to everyone for all the information posted! I took this on today. It was harder than the most optimistic reports (def. more than a couple of hours), but easier than the worst (couple YouTube videos really did this the hard way). I did it without dropping the subframe. I got as far as the two ...