What is this on the CV axle?

YoshiMoshi3
Sat, 18 May 2024 04:22:44 +0000
Maintenance/Repairs

2005 Camry

I was looking at CV axles, and was wondering what is this part and what is it’s function? It appears to be some joint or something, almost like the axle is in two and the joints joins them together.

I’ve seen them typically without whatever that thing is, similar to this, which is similar to what is in my car at the moment, which I believe is OEM.

I’ve also noticed the length difference.
The one with the unknown part is 37 4/5"
The one similar to what is in my car is 37 5/6"

So the one with the unknown piece is 1/30" shorter, interesting.

Looks like most of the axles for this car, have a slightly different compressed length, but are all about the same, so I guess it probably isn’t something significant?

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