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Originally Posted by: HK1837  I have never seen one. My first drive car in 1984 was a 3/74 HQ Deville, it never had a two piece tailshaft. The May 1977 HQ parts catalogue shows the same thing, ie a pink shaft for auto V8 Statesman. Given its a 993 part number I'm wondering if it was updated for export HJ Deville with 4.2 Trimatic? The T-bar was changed to cable type for Statesman only in the mid 70's to eliminate vibration, and also the 2.78 Salisbury was first replaced with 2.60 in HJ Statesman to reduce noise. So maybe this pink shaft was done for similar reasons?
. I have seen plenty of HQ statesman, (can't say if de ville etc) column trimatic, with basically a 2 peice shaft, bigger tube over the smller tube pressed together with a rubber sleeve. No idea what colour tailshaft, as usually covered in crud from the leaking trimatic
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Its something I never saw. It isn't in the parts catalogue for early HQ but its there for the later manuals, also in WB for Trimatic Statesman. I probably never saw it as I rarely bought 5.0L Trimatic cars, I reckon that HQ Deville I had was the only one that I owned and worked on. All the rest were 350/TH400 or 5.0L TH400 or H3T50. Edit - old memory just popped up. I remember Greg at Classicozwreck pointing a shaft out to me years ago that it was Statesman. It had that rubber joint in it. Only one I ever saw! Edited by user Friday, 12 September 2025 7:13:36 PM(UTC)
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Very informative… now I need to check my tailshafts lol
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