"Ernie Sty" <fake_email@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> My maintenance guide for my 2003 Corolla says that if you've been driving
> on salt covered roads, you should lubricate the propeller shaft and
> re-torque the bolt. WTF?
>
>[/color]
A propeller shaft is a shaft that propels the vehicle, AKA, driveshaft.
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"qslim" <Suckers@suckersdotcom> wrote in message
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> Cool. Didn't know you could get a RWD Corolla these days.
>[/color]
Didn't know that either. Oh year, Toyota also calls the driven axles in a
vehicle with a transaxle propeller shafts.
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"Ray O" <rokigawa@tristarassociatesDOTcom> wrote in message
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> [email]rokigawa@tristarassociates.com[/email]
>
> "Ernie Sty" <fake_email@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:PeSdndQzdYj1v7vfRVn-3Q@giganews.com...[color=green]
>> My maintenance guide for my 2003 Corolla says that if you've been driving
>> on salt covered roads, you should lubricate the propeller shaft and
>> re-torque the bolt. WTF?
>>
>>[/color]
> A propeller shaft is a shaft that propels the vehicle, AKA, driveshaft.[/color]
Well, don't I feel like a dolt. :-) Thanks for the info!
Drive shaft or axle shaft. I have most often seen that term used
interchangeably with driveshaft, but a Front Wheel Drive car hasn't got a
driveshaft, so the propeller shaft would be the one that makes the car go,
and this would be the axle shaft.
If the Corolla is Rear Wheel Drive - which I doubt - then the propeller
shaft is the drive shaft.
"Ernie Sty" <fake_email@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> My maintenance guide for my 2003 Corolla says that if you've been driving[/color]
on[color=blue]
> salt covered roads, you should lubricate the propeller shaft and re-torque
> the bolt. WTF?
>
>[/color]
"Ernie Sty" <fake_email@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> My maintenance guide for my 2003 Corolla says that if you've been driving[/color]
on[color=blue]
> salt covered roads, you should lubricate the propeller shaft and re-torque
> the bolt. WTF?
>
>[/color]
Ernie Sty wrote:[color=blue]
> My maintenance guide for my 2003 Corolla says that if you've been
> driving on salt covered roads, you should lubricate the propeller
> shaft and re-torque the bolt. WTF?[/color]
That would be the halfshaft nut located at the center of the front wheels
after you remove the wheel covers.
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"Ernie Sty" <fake_email@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> My maintenance guide for my 2003 Corolla says that if you've been driving
> on salt covered roads, you should lubricate the propeller shaft and
> re-torque the bolt. WTF?
>
>[/color]
They use an universal maintenance schedule and this job is not relevant to a
Corolla. It is relevant to their pick-up trucks, Land Cruiser and some rear
drive cars if available in your geographical area.
I have a 2004 Highlander and I too wondered what the owners manual meant
by having the propeller shaft bolts retorqued every 5000 miles. First I
went out and purchased a set of crow foot metric wrenches. I hadn't
heard of them either at the time but was told I needed them. Next I
decided to purchase the set (2 volume) of service manuals for my vehicle
since I try to do all the work myself. The FIRST thing I looked up in
the manual was what the heck is a propeller shaft ?
Well, turns out that the service manuals says IT IS THE SHAFT THAT RUNS
FROM THE TRANSMISSION TO THE REAR AXLE, in other words a 4 wheel drive
vehicle which mine wasn't. So, in a way I was glad to hear that because
each end of that propeller shaft has 4 bolts that need to be retorqued.
That's where the crowfoot wrench ends comes in handy. They attach to
the torque wrench where a standard socket can't get to them. Glad I
didn't get a 4 wheel drive vehicle !!!!!
Ernie Sty wrote:
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> My maintenance guide for my 2003 Corolla says that if you've been driving on
> salt covered roads, you should lubricate the propeller shaft and re-torque
> the bolt. WTF?
>
>[/color]
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 14:30:16 -0600, "Ernie Sty" <fake_email@yahoo.com>
wrote:
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>My maintenance guide for my 2003 Corolla says that if you've been driving on
>salt covered roads, you should lubricate the propeller shaft and re-torque
>the bolt. WTF?[/color]
You mean you didn't opt for the "propeller and wings" package?
On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 17:06:53 -0500, qslim wrote:
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> Cool. Didn't know you could get a RWD Corolla these days.[/color]
I'll sign up! Where do I go? (easy now, fellas...)
"Ray O" <rokigawa@tristarassociatesDOTcom> wrote in message
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>
> "qslim" <Suckers@suckersdotcom> wrote in message
> news:448ac721a0d62cc016912e4c3cbb8f2c@localhost.talkaboutautos.com...[color=green]
>> Cool. Didn't know you could get a RWD Corolla these days.
>>[/color]
> Didn't know that either. Oh year, Toyota also calls the driven axles in a
> vehicle with a transaxle propeller shafts.
> --
> Ray O
> correct the return address punctuation to reply
>[/color]
I thought they were properly called half-shafts? They aren't prop shafts in
the traditional sense of the word, there are two of them.
"Charles Fregeau" <n5hsr@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> "Ray O" <rokigawa@tristarassociatesDOTcom> wrote in message
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>>
>> "qslim" <Suckers@suckersdotcom> wrote in message
>> news:448ac721a0d62cc016912e4c3cbb8f2c@localhost.talkaboutautos.com...[color=darkred]
>>> Cool. Didn't know you could get a RWD Corolla these days.
>>>[/color]
>> Didn't know that either. Oh year, Toyota also calls the driven axles in
>> a vehicle with a transaxle propeller shafts.
>> --
>> Ray O
>> correct the return address punctuation to reply
>>[/color]
>
> I thought they were properly called half-shafts? They aren't prop shafts
> in the traditional sense of the word, there are two of them.
>
> Charles of Kankakee[/color]
In the good ol' USA, they're half-shafts. In Japan, (at least at Toyota)
they come up with some unique terms.
My maintenance guide for my 2003 Corolla says that if you've been driving on
salt covered roads, you should lubricate the propeller shaft and re-torque
the bolt. WTF?
"Ernie Sty" <fake_email@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:PeSdndQzdYj1v7vfRVn-3Q@giganews.com...[color=blue]
> My maintenance guide for my 2003 Corolla says that if you've been driving
> on salt covered roads, you should lubricate the propeller shaft and
> re-torque the bolt. WTF?
>
>[/color]
A propeller shaft is a shaft that propels the vehicle, AKA, driveshaft.
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Ray O
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