So we towed to 75-80 for test and tune. Sat in traffic for 3hrs.... track is only 65 miles away.

Car broke a U-Joint in the drivers halfshaft on the first pass. Bashed up the end yolk enough that the halfshaft is not reuseable too....

Too bad had a nice little wheel stand going until it broke....

What are you gonna do... this stuff was stock from 1984 with 101, 000 miles and 3 yrs of 1.40 60fts on it.... reckon I knew better than to keep running it.

Gonna tear it apart tomorrow. Already ordered the good Spicer U-Joints and new strap/bolt kit from Dennys.

Hope to be ready for next Friday.
Will

Ouch! Sounds like she gave it all she had ;-)

Power to the people. Power to the people, right on.

Too bad about the carnage, where are the pics

Are you doing cryo/hardened halfshafts or will you continue to run stock ones? I am truly impressed the stock one lasted that long.

Matthew

sorry to hear

Did it take out the storage compartment?

Matt
I have a friend that has some stock halfshafts and he said I could have them to get going again. So no cryo or anything. Just the good Spicer U-Joints.

Thinking of getting a local driveline shop to make me some steel shafts, but so far my experience between the 92 and now this car shows the U-Joints are the weak link. Thing is the ends of the shaft get bashed up pretty bad when the joints break....

BTW it could have been way worse. The right side inner joint was destroyed as well.... just hadnt broke yet. Weird because the needles were crushed in it.... the drivers side that broke, the needles are totally fine.

Brian
It did not damage the storage compartment. The joint broke at the cross and then kinda wedged itself together.... I was able to limp down the track and load it on the trailer no problem.

Would take some pics but its just a broken U-Joint... not much to see. I do have video of the pass and will upload it in a few.
Will

seen a lot of stub axle breaks

got some 32 spline units

next up is the diff case

glad the damage was limited and easily repairable!! You're right, it could have been a lot worse.

I finally managed to up load my breakage video from last Friday....



Blackharleyman had an extra half shaft in storage that he let me use to get going again. I was able to pick it up Sunday and get them all cleaned up.

Denny's shipped Monday and the Big Brown Truck had my new Spicer U-Joints and strap/bolt kit waiting on my door step when I got home from work yesterday.... Really good deal to get alll new joints and new hardware for $150.00.

Last night I was able (with help from 93 ragtop) to get the new U-Joints pressed in my half shafts... I did managed to f-up and busted one of the caps pressing them in - So I have to reuse an old cap I had from a set of half shafts I bought to fix the 92 a few yrs ago.... See it pays to keep old parts around.

Tonight I'm going to put the rear end back together and hopefully the weather is nice for Friday so I can lay down some 5 second passes.
Will

ouch!!!! That hurts to watch. FWIW, if as you say, it pays to keep old parts around, then I should be a rich man!

Car is back together, but the weather is bad and and 75-80 called off the test and tune for tonight.

Oh well, we will be ready for next weeks test and tune.

First points race is 10 May.
Will