I know this has been covered but I cant find it.

I busted my drivers side axle. I have a ZC motor and a L3 tranny in my '90 Crx Si. I went to advanced auto and bought a 1990 Integra LS axle put it in and bolted it all in. The axle is too short though. I turned the wheel and it pulled it apart completely. I was told to take that axle back and get a '88 Integra RS axle and it would work great.

Ive tried reading up on this and Ive found that most sites I read say I can use a 90 Teg axle just fine but that obviously isnt the case.

What axle do I need?

 

First of all the L3 trans covers all of the 88-91 Si/Dx/Hf/ZC transmssions. Are you running an intermediate shaft and equal length axles?

 

I known which L3 is it? If its a ZC L3 then you need 93 integra axles

 

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I just bought this car and the previous owner paid someone else to do the swap. He hasnt a clue about the car other then the passenger side axle is a 90 teg axle.. This is my first project car as well and I dont know alot about it. I will assume that since the right side is a teg axle and works fine that I am not running a intermediate shaft nor equal length axles. Does that make sense? I would go look at the car but its not near me right now.


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How do I tell what L3 it is?

 

Damn my axle's bent

 

If you don't have an intermediate shaft just run 88-91 civic si/dx axles. However, make sure you aren't running equal length axles by getting under the car and comparing the two axles. If they are unequal length one will be much longer than the other.

 

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I am not running a intermediate shaft nor equal length axles. Does that make sense? I would go look at the car but its not near me right now.

How do I tell what L3 it is?</TD></TR></TABLE>

You don't have an intermediate shaft?
So it's probably not a ZC tranny.

If you have a 5 speed tranny then it's probably just a regular Si tranny.
In that case you just use regular Civic/CRX axles (Dx, LX, EX... any - they all work except for STD and HF).

Weird thing though - I thought that the ZC has a different differencial? Is this right? And it requires the use of the teg inner joint????
If that's right then you HAD custom axles where the inner join from a Teg was put on a regular Civic/Crx axle.

 

Yeah, I saw this too.

The only way a teg CV shaft will bolt into that tranny is if there is a ZC differential.

And the only way that short integra CV shaft will work is if he has a intermediate shaft.

take your old shaft back to the parts house and match them up for size. Most of the time, re-man axles are not made to super high tollerences so it's quite easy for them to be different lengths.

If you continue to have problems with the short shaft setup, O'reiley parts can get a LONG drivers side shaft with the bigger (integra) sized inner joint. Ask for a '91 4WD Civic Wagon Driver's side axle.

 

For my red civic w/ the ZC and Si tranny, I used regular Si axles.

 

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It's not the motor, it's the tranny.

Your Si tranny mounts in the same place regarless if you have ZC, Z6, Y8, D15... etc. Therefore, you use the same axles since the tranny is in the same place. No need for longer/sharter axles when you just change out the engine.

 

I went and took a peak at it. It does have the differential on it. Thanks for all the help.

 

yup its a tranny thing if you use the ZC tranny you have to use the intermediate shaft, so if there is no intermediate shaft then you have a civic (probly si) tranny so you would need civic axles

 

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It's not the motor, it's the tranny.

Your Si tranny mounts in the same place regarless if you have ZC, Z6, Y8, D15... etc. Therefore, you use the same axles since the tranny is in the same place. No need for longer/sharter axles when you just change out the engine.

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I know that. The original poster said he had a ZC motor with a L3 tranny. I assumed L3's were Si, DX, etc D-series cable trannies. Maybe I am wrong. I was just letting him know I have a similar setup, but use regular Si axles. He is using integra ones.

 

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You mean it has the intermediate shaft???

 

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You mean it has the intermediate shaft???</TD></TR></TABLE>

Yes, it does. Sorry, I was reading through and got confused a little bit.