Folks, i seem to be in a bit of a pickle, this might take a bit of explaining on the back story and my entire situation, so grab yourself a coffee....I'll wait..... Got it? Good.

My PFL Legnum has a shot inner passenger side CV joint. so much so that it has to be replaced entirely
I spoke to Mike at Viamoto and he gave me the Mitsubishi part number of MR336596 but also suggested i send the whole shaft away to DriveshaftUK in the west-midlands to be reconditioned

Me being me thought i could tackle the job myself just by replacing the joint - done loads of them in the past on VW Passat's, Ford Escort's etc and I've got a decent amount of tooling to do it (don't panic, nothing has been removed yet)

I saw on another thread (https://www.clubvr4.com/forum/showth...joint-supplier) that Febest make a seemingly compatible joint - 0411EA - which I've now discovered matches to part number MR336586
Alas I had already ordered, paid for and took delivery of such a joint - but today I've noticed that this thread was surrounding a Galant 2.5 V6 2002 (presumably 2WD)
That'll teach me for not reading things properly and charging in like a bull in a china shop

I've today been searching around for MR336596 compatible joints and the imagery for these is different to the Febest joint that I've received, both in terms of the end that goes into the gearbox and the overall shape of the outer cup
This is what I've got from Febest....
0411EA.jpg

Vs this outer cup is more like what i can see on the car and the gearbox end is different....
0411N9RH.jpg

To make matters worse - the car is meant to be going to Japfest on the 5th September (travelling down on the 4th)

(Take another sip of coffee here)

I have another VR4 here as a parts car and they're only about 3 weeks apart in terms of production line dates, we're talking mid Oct 1996 vs early Nov 1996.
You might say "Just do a driveshaft swap from one car to the other"...... I can't easily do this.....because the outer CV joint on the parts car wont come out of the hub, it's seized solid, so I'd have to take the whole hub assembly inc wheel bearing and ABS sensor and hope to god that they're all still ok after being sat for years and up to the job

Then we come to the issue of fluid drop from the gearbox upon removal of the inner joint.
I've got 20L of Fuchs Titan ATF 4400 which clearly states on the barrel that its compatible with Mitsubishi SP-II / -III amongst a myriad of other manufacturer specs..... including Dexron III - now i know that Dexron is an evil word here, but because it specifically lists SP-II & SP-III then surely i should be ok, right?
The gearbox was rebuilt by "Mister Transmission" in Charlton, London in November last year inc a new torque converter and "reclutch and reseal transmission" - now i don't know what's happened to the car since then but I've found engine mount bolts missing and it would seem that the clamps on the inner CV joint weren't done up which has caused my joint to fail - now I'm not saying that Mister Transmission are at fault - not at all, but evidently whoever has taken a socket and spanner set to this car between then and me purchasing the car has done some shoddy work.

At this stage I'm ready to whip out my credit card and ask DriveshaftUK to just "fix it and send me a bill" unless one of you good souls can help me see the wood from the trees and reliably tell me that I've actually got the right parts and just to crack on.

I hope this explains my predicament and current situation
Thankyou for your patience.