Re: [oletrucks] Re: blown rear end?

[Roger.Gleason@uconn.edu]

May be a broken axle.  I did it once when I was young but my dad said it
was probably due to the fact that the previous owner hauled large rocks. I
broke both axles in a 46 chev.pu. Dad replaced them with ones he got out of
a car from the junk yard. Worked well until he sold it. Actually I was
practicing popping the clutch. If he only had known a trip to the wood shed
may have been in store. :-)
Could also have been a spider gear split. I've had that happen more than
once in the race car.


Roger Gleason
University of Connecticut
Construction Engineer
31 LeDoyt Road
Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3038
Phone 860-486-3064
Fax 860-486-3117


                                                                                
                                                         
                      Wayne Osborne                                             
                                                         
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First and formost--glad your family and you house was spared. Being here a
couple weeks,it sure does stike me harder being closer to these folks going
through this. Must be just a terrible awful feeling seeing the fire coming
over the beautiful roaming hillsides here coming toward you and know not a
damn thing you can do..
Only way you'll know is the remove the cover and take a look inside, gonna
have to come off anyway so may as well do it. The pins holding it together
are about 1/2 in diameter so it'd take a lot to shear them. May have
sheared off a few teeth on the gears and not meshing. If you roll the truck
do you hear any noises from it. --wayne

At 09:04 AM 11/4/03 EST, Kensconst1001@aol.com wrote:
>     (57 1/2 ton) to the max with all our construction tools and headed
>out. my son came walking up the hill were i was waiting for him on my
>harley ,when he told me the truck would not move,i belive that mybe the
>truck started rolling backwards and my son jamed it in park?anyway the
>drive shaft turns and the truck does not move ,i have not worked on a rear
>end for 25 years ,but is'nt there a shear bin in the chuck? thank for your
>time   ken
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