rednate,
"why was it removed?"
at the time, i needed to pull the driveshaft out of my tranny's tail housing in order to install new speedo gears (so my speedo would read correctly).
i realize now that i shouldn't have been messing with the u-joint to remove the driveshaft, but this was my first time under there and i wasnt sure HOW to get my driveshaft out to access my tranny's tailhousing.
call it inexperience...