Glad you got it fixed, for if that "chewed down to a conical stump" arm had
gotten chewed a little further the subject of your email might have been
"Stopping!" rather than "Stop-Ping!"
<dnw>
1972 Midget
1998 Safari
1999 9-3
1964 (Me)
----- Original Message -----
From "Guy Weller" <guy at weller-lakes.freeserve.co.uk>
To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 4:38 PM
Subject: Stop-Ping!
> Stripped out the propshaft and replaced the 2 UJ's tonight. Nice
> straightforward job for once. Also found that my arms are long and
> thin enough to reach down the length of the tranny tunnel from the
> rear axle end in order to guide the splined end of the prop shaft into
> the back of the gerarbox. Not the difficult task I thought irt was
> going to be.
> One of the UJ's turned out to be completely dry and full of rust-dust,
> whilst on the other one, 1 arm (or are they legs?) of the spider was
> all chewed down to a conical stump. No wonder it made ping noises!.
> Odd thing was it never seemed to vibrate at all. Surprising, I would
> say.
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