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Re: Limited slop differentials

To: british-cars@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Limited slop differentials
From: Fred Talmadge <fredtal@industryinet.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 08:13:50 -0600
I remember my brother riding with me made a comment, "Hey your wheel is 
sticking out"  We were only going about 20 mph and the axle was slowly 
working it's way out of the housing.  Bummer.  Scary thing is I was so poor 
that I bought just one axle to replace it.  Hope whoever I sold it to can 
sit back and have a laugh about that old Sprite.  It was a fun car.

Fred Talmadge
S1 & S2 Lotus Elan, Elva Courier Mk2



At 05:29 PM 12/30/2001 -0800, Berry Kercheval wrote:
>neil@sherry02.freeserve.co.uk said:
> > Sprite halfshafts are a bit weak anyway. And yes I broke one not long
> > after fitting the new diff three years ago - but that is with a blown
> > A-Series. At least I could still drive home on the other one! I now
> > have some (hopefully) bullet-proof shafts.
>
>A bit weak!  I broke three in my old Sprite in the seventies, and that was
>with a stock engine and diff!  The sad part is with the stock diff you can't
>limp home.

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