> Hello Amici Triumphi,
> Well, I wasn't able to complete my runs at the Petersburg, VA
> ProSolo2 event on the weekend of 4/17 and 4/18 due to a broken rear
> end. I finally got the rear stripped down and pulled out from under
> the car to assess the damage and found that I'd broken the right
> rear axle. The splines had sheared off right where they joined the
> rest of the axle, making the axle about two inches shorter than it
> used to be. Luckily this wasn't accompanied by any of the more
> specatacular events that some of you have encountered; in fact, it
> was rather uneventful and felt more like a severely slipping clutch.
> There weren't even any loud bangs to signify when it let go. I guess
> there's now one fewer of those axles that the SCCA thinks are so
> "readily available".
That's what happens when you put 200 HP through an axle designed 40 years
ago for 104 HP..
;-)
Glad you stayed right side up.
irv
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