On the subject of hardened axles and the alternatives, has anyone tried this
mod suggested by Grant Bowyer:
http://community.webshots.com/album/15283945PMbEoDsIKU ?
Phil
>Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 23:15:53 EDT
>From: NewNGsInfo@cs.com
>Subject: Re: Too fast, too soon- axle(s)?
>
>Jack,
>
>Sounds like a snapped axle. If you are lucky, it has not jammed in there
>preventing normal dissasembly. You should try to remove each axle first...
>hopefully, one will come out normal, the other broken. Then you can remove
>the drive line at the rear U joint and take the pumpkin out. Inspect all.
>Doubt that an MGB diff will work or be much better if it does.
>
>Then, hardened axles are in order. Or, you can do a conversion to a RX7 diff
>that has hardened axles, LSD, is beefy, and has rear disk brakes and good
>berrings and seals. Each of those options are between $500 and $1000.. the
>hardened axles don't get you all the rest of the features of the RX7 diff.
>
>John Carey
>San Jose, CA
>
>Auto Web Sites I do:
>http://www.rrocncr.org/
>http://pages.sbcglobal.net/jbcarey/index.html
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