Drive shaft service?

[Grumpy Goat]

Grumpy: Now I convinced more than ever that the C-ring goes inside the internal splines on the front of the driveshaft, where it snaps on to the external splined tranny output shaft during reassembly. Check out this video, at about 3:40 driveshaft C-clip discussion.

Seeya
 ATB

Thanks for the comment. I actually have a new driveshaft sitting in my garage but never checked to see whether it has a C- clip already installed. This guy suggests it is there so if I use the new shaft I guess I will eventually have the C-clip on my bike. 

I am happy without it, and I know what it was designed to be there. Just that where my bike never came with one in the inner splines on the front end of the cardan shaft, and I no longer have any issue removing that original shaft, it really does not matter much. 

I am not near to my new cardan shaft at the moment and when I am if I remember I will check to see if it does have the C-clip pre-installed.

If the universal joint of the cardan shaft will fail it won't have anything to do with the presence or absence of this C-clip ... just crap material in the U-joint, and that is what bothers me more.