[Zeno]

026 is cooper s, best thing to do to check is undo the three bolts on the bracket and see if the shaft is fully in

This is how it looks if it doesn't line up (this is the 036)

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I just tried fitting a J&R N/S shaft on my 2005 MCS with LSD. It did not fit and the bracket is about 3 mm off the holes in the engine (too far away). I measured against the original shaft and there is approx 3 mm difference in the distance between the bracket holes and the end of the shaft.

The bracket is stamped 037 on the new J&R shaft - the original is stamped 026. Has the shaft been assembled with the wrong bracket? It is the correct J&R part number for the whole package, meaning driveshaft for gen 1 MCS, so for the most part it seems to be correct.

 

[Zeno]

Tried to explain the problem to J&R a couple of times, but getting nowhere. Their response is that “this is the only option we do”, meaning they claim what they have sent is correct. Again, the shaft was ordered is for Gen 1 MCS and is labeled for such on the site, but the distance between gearbox end of shaft and support bracket is too great, and this is compared to the BMW original I took off the car. It has not been possible to have a conversation about brackets and stamped numbers, and that type of thing, so feels like they are not consulting with anyone that might know something internally. Disappointing.

I’m gonna take the 026 bracket off the old shaft and compare to the 037 on the new shaft - if they are obviously different, I will just put the 026 onto the new shaft.