Thread: Passenger side axel doesn't fit after engine swap

If you have googled and found this thread, it is because you didn't swap the bracket the axel goes into from your old motor...

So I spent a good half hour or more tonight trying to figure out why my passenger side axel wasn't going in far enough for those three little bolts to tighten it down on the bracket mounted to the engine. The holes were almost 4" from where they should have been, and the axel wasn't going into the transmission any further.

I kept staring at that damned bracket and couldn't for the life of me imagine how it could have moved. It finally sunk in that this wasn't the original motor. I walked over and pulled the bracket off the old motor, and sure enough they fit differently. Mounted it up and now the bolt holes were back where they belonged.


It's the little things that you don't think of when it has taken months to get everything back together...

Yesiri the passenger side cv axle mount changes i believe p10,p11 its different from the b13,b14 bracket also i always like to add some grease or oil before i lock in place the axle i live in crazy weather and drive under 2-3 feet of snow on winter and it llikes to rust and they wont come out after i learned my lesson i lube around inside the braket just so it stays happy and easy removal when the time comes

It was a P11 bracket that was on there, put the original B13 one on the new motor, but still had a heck of a time getting the shaft in. The old bracket had been out in the weather for a while, I cleaned it up and hit it with a wire brush on the inside, but the inner CV joint still didn't want to slide in, even after hitting it with some silicone spray lubricant.

I eventually was able to tap the bolt holes with a long screwdriver and a hammer to nudge it into place enough to get two bolts in, and once I started threading them I was at last able to draw it into place.