Mark Williams 300M shaft apearance

[RealMcCoy]

I don't install these things every day, so if there were a change in the appearance or manufacturing, I'd probably be the last to know... The last shaft I bought for my own car was a QuadcoXR, so I can't even use it for comparison. I was under the impression that the 300M shaft had a dark coating on it... The one I just received has no coating, and is indistinguishable from a stock one. It does have a date code stamped on the end of it. I am replacing a MW 300M shaft that has a dark coating, and no date code stamping.

Being as I have no way to verify the metallurgy, you can understand my concern that I may have been inadvertently shipped the wrong shaft... Anyone have any recent experience in this matter, and able to quash or confirm my fears?



http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k252/lnmccoy/SamsCar/300M_1_zpslwqanxq7.jpg (http://s90.photobucket.com/user/lnmccoy/media/SamsCar/300M_1_zpslwqanxq7.jpg.html)
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k252/lnmccoy/SamsCar/300M_2_zpsyujjo5gs.jpg (http://s90.photobucket.com/user/lnmccoy/media/SamsCar/300M_2_zpsyujjo5gs.jpg.html)

[RealMcCoy]

It was determined that I was inadvertently shipped the wrong shaft, and it has been rectified... The new one and the old one look identical minus the wear.


http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k252/lnmccoy/ForumPics/300M_3_zpsmweubri4.jpg (http://s90.photobucket.com/user/lnmccoy/media/ForumPics/300M_3_zpsmweubri4.jpg.html)


A have a couple of quotes from the other forum that I found quite interesting while I was trying to figure this out:


When I had Travis from from MW make those things for me in the beginning we had part numbers that had 3SI on them. So the MW shaft should say that.



the new shafts from MW look like a stock shaft and do not have the redish tint to them. they do have 3si etched into the end of them also so i would be weary of one's that don't

Neither the old shaft(installed by 3SX in 2011) or this new shaft, have any etchings or markings of any kind....

[KeithMac]

Mine had a matt black coating and slightly waisted shaft the same as yours on the last pic...