[Mg-t] Thanks TD Broken axle

[Douglas Ormrod]

How  it broke was that I was going over some judder bars (speed humps).

With the IFS the front goes over quite smoothly but the cart springs on
the back tend to give you a good bounce. I was probably going a bit fast
- I had the clutch in and when the back hit the judder bar my foot
slipped off the clutch and it came in with a bang - and that's when it
broke!

Cheers

Douglas
-----Original Message-----
From: John Quilter [mailto:jquilter at peoplepc.com]
Sent: Monday, 24 August 2009 1:38 p.m.
To: Douglas Ormrod
Subject: Re: [Mg-t] Thanks TD Broken axle

I'd probably get flamed for this on the list but if you chose not to
fully
split and disassemble the center housing why not try to flush out the
diff a
number of times using some type of solvent like kerosene and see if you
get
any swarf out.

John Quilter
Brisbane, California

PS my diff was changed from 5:12 to 4:55 gears a number of years ago.
Probably should have replaced the axles at the time but they looked fine

with no signs of twisting.  I wonder if the 5:12 ratio puts more stress
on
them due to the high torque taking off from a stop.