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Re: rear axles

To: Frank Clarici <spritenut@Exit109.com>
Subject: Re: rear axles
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 23:18:16 -0800
Cc: Geoff Branch <branch@valinet.com>, spridgets@autox.team.net
References: <94.92b33e.25d5929d@aol.com> <008c01bf816a$2bf8b7e0$d502ced1@compaq5460> <38B9C421.BA963D91@exit109.com>
I sure hope someone has some spare axles just in case.  I just installed the 
axles
back in my rear end.  I got this car as a basket case, and you guessed it, the
axles were not installed in the rear end when I aquired the car.  I've got a 
fifty,
fifty chance.
Mike MacLean-60 Sprite

Frank Clarici wrote:

> Geoff Branch wrote:
> >
> > Have both rear axels out to renew hubs and was wondering if it made sense to
> > change them side to side (left to right) so that the splines in them would 
>be
> > riding in new surfaces?  Does this make any sense?
> >
> > Geoff Branch '74 Meejut
>
> NO DO NOT CHANGE SIDES!
> Having snapped more then a few axles and with the advise of Paul A, I
> have learned to keep them on the side of the car they originally came
> from.
> Paul can explain it best, he probably will.
> Let's just say I switched one from one side to the other and got almost
> a whole week out of it. This was on my A40, not an overly powerful car.
> The replacment axle also snapped a few months later. It probably came
> off the other side of the parts car and I put it on the "wrong" side.
> I also snapped one on my Bugeye last summer very shortly after changing
> the diff. I did not know note which axle came out of which side and just
> put them back according to what I grabbed first.
> --
> Frank Clarici
> Toms River, NJ
> Too many Sprites (again)
> There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."
> http://www.exit109.com/~spritenut


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