I'm F'ed
I'm F'ed
Last edited by 55 Tony; 05-22-2018 at 11:31 AM.
Tony
1955 Bel Air Sport Coupe
How long were your old axles. Is the housing the same width now.
I'm left to half ass put this together using a different bearing that does get pressed onto the axle and then adding a shim of sorts because the other bearing isn't as wide. Either that or buy new ends again, pull the rear again, take it to get the new ends welded on again and put it back together again. F me.
Tony
1955 Bel Air Sport Coupe
Last edited by markm; 05-22-2018 at 01:58 PM.
All sounds good. On our last set of Moser axles the twist was just about the entire length of the axle. Once they reached a 25% twist, we replaced them. And in our case we run a spool so both axles were pretty close in the amount of twist they had suffered. One thing I learned is that the shorter the axle the harder it is to see the twist with out some kind of indicator. Occasionally I have seen them twist just at the spline area but that was usually stocker type stuff, not the aftermarket pieces. Last season we had a guy bring out a mid-60's Poncho with I guess a Pontiac 455+ in it. Second time shot the right axle said goodbye and the car went one way and the slick the other. The funny part was he was back out there the following week, made it to first round of eliminations before the axle signed off for the day again. I'm not sure but I would imagine that aftermarket axles were in his future after that one.
Remember the "13"
Well you guessed where I got the axles from whether you tried or not. They look a lot better than the first unknown set, but definitely not as good as the ones from Tom's, too bad those didn't fit. With my limited knowledge, Tom's looked better and considerably less expensive. Anyway these survived five passes during test and tune. Don't know if I should write about that in this thread, one of my old threads, or start a new one. Issues with traction, and considerable loss of power when hot, very considerable.
Tony
1955 Bel Air Sport Coupe