>From the midwest: If the spline shows any twist, replace it. The metal has
been damaged. You can twist them back as Chuck suggests but you are flirting
with a broken axle any way you look at it. The twist is not in the splined
portion, it is just past where the splines stop. Therefore it is possible to
re-install without a BFH...
Kent
1960 Bugeye
1978 Midget "Drippy" (How's that for a name?)
1976 Midget "Boneyard" (Now becoming a piece of eBay history!)
Subject: Fwd: Axle shafts.
> There seems to a difference of opinion between my East Coast and West
Coast
> gurus, concerning how to reinstall axle shafts.
>
> Maybe the landlocked people in the heartlands can settle this.
>
> David Oliner
>
> In a message dated 11/21/02 12:32:51 AM Mid-Atlantic Standard Time,
> Pasgeirsson@worldnet.att.net writes:
>
> << Axles should not be used on the
> opposite side from where they were run. >>
>
> I was going to forward you an email I got from Chuck, but I guess I
thrashed
> it. Anyway, he told that a old trick he used before the axle shafts were
> hardened, was to swiap them after the splines got a little twist, that way
> they would bend back. Not sure how you get an axle with a twisted spline
back
> in, but I guess a BFH will do the job.
>
> I will put them back in the way they came out, but just curious about
> Chuck's theory.
>
> David.
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