John:
I am taking the "creep up on it" approach. I have everything out of the
interior of the car, the tunnels are all out, steering whell off. I was
wrong on one thing. When I unbolted the shaft from the rear end and turned
the shaft, it did always spin off center by about three degrees. I am now
at a point where I can shine a flash light in the tail piece. The yolk
still does not appear bent, but on the oldside of the tail piece there is a
ring about three to four inches wide where the tail piece appears to have
been hot enough burn the paint. This ring appears to be at the point where
the yolk stops.
I think I am now to the point where I must fish or cut bait. Cut the yolk
and pull the tail piece or disassemble the u-joint and pull the
transmission. Any thoughts?
Steve Bauserman
67 Morgan 4/4
83 Mercedes 300SD
96 Cherokee Country
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From: Blair, John <jblair@virgo.massolant.navy.mil>
To: morgans@Autox.Team.Net
Date: Monday, June 23, 1997 8:08 AM
Subject: Re: shafted update 1
>> From: "Stephen F. Bauserman" <sbauserm@actsnet.com>
>> John:
>>
>> The more I play with this the more interesting it gets. As I said
>> earlier,.....
>
>Steve,
>
> Sorry I didn't get back to you this weekend, but I got
>tied up on other things.
>
>Did you have any success over the weekend?
>
>I was kicking this around with my Dad while we were
>out getting new garage doors on Sat. Neither of us
>could come up with any reason for what you describe.
>As to getting the yoke off, the only other method we
>could think of, was to tie one end of a "come-a-long"
>around the rear end, tie a rope around the yoke and
>attach the other end of the come along to the yoke and
>the see if you can pull it apart that way.
>
>John
>
>
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