Na they wernt too bad, you dont normaly need to change the drive shaft with cortinas (mk3,4,5) as the type 9 is the same lenght and has the same spline as the pinto engined tinas.
Also the mk3 2l shaft is the best 2L 1 to use as its not a 2/3 peice like the later models. I snaped 3 of those rubber doughnut things on my old mk4