Count yourself lucky; my wife was 300 miles from home when hers let go!

This was close to a year ago, so some of the details are a little sketchy. I do remember this really wasn't a big deal however. I loosened the bolts holding the bearing housing to the chassis, then removed the rear half of the driveshaft. It's attached at the rear by four bolts with 16mm heads (kind of a weird size), and at the front you take the little bolts out of the center u-joint to disassemble it and remove the shaft. Then the bearing slides off the front shaft. Reverse procedure to install. No, I don't have torque values to retighten the bolts, just used common sense and blue Loctite.

Mine's a '98 also so they should be the same. Good luck and let me know if you have any trouble.

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Lenny

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