Can anyone help this poor fellow? His post follows. My Morgan isn't at my
house so I can't go down in the garage and check the threads for him.
Does anybody know where to get a new axle?
Bill a question to you. There should be a woodrift key on the axle to
key the hub. Did that get messed up? If so, simply fixing the threads
won't help. You'll probably need a new axle.
TIA
John
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At 11:48 PM 10/26/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi John:
>
>I'm back to work on my Morgan. You may recall we did some e-mailing back and
>forth about a problem I had with my brakes not bleeding. I believe I
>e-mailed you recently and told you I isolated the problem to be with the rear
>brake cylinders. I did this by plugging the line going to the rear brakes
>and tried bleeding just the front calipers. Got a hard pedal almost
>immediatedly. Well, now I'm on to another problem. The rear half shaft.
>
>Seem that while trailering the car with one of the little front wheel dollies
>you can get from U-Haul, I had a little problem. I had apparently not
>tightened the right rear axle nut and had not inserted a cotter pin to hold
>it in place. The nut came loose during travel and the hub began exiting off
>the axle. As it did, it completely boogered up the axle threads. The wheel
>did not come off (thank goodness), but the axle threads are so badly crushed
>I can't even start the nut back on. So here are my questions:
>
>1. Do you know if the axle threads on this 1959-1960 Morgan +4 are American
>standard or some sort of Whitworth.
>
>2. How is a half shaft removed? I've done this a few times in the past, but
>I honestly don't remember how I did it. My guess is I need that axle nut in
>place to free the bugger, however.
>
>Looking forward to your response.
>
>Bill Wilkman (KF6BNE)
>Wildbil923@aol.com
>
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John T. Blair WA4OHZ email: jblair@exis.net
Va. Beach, Va Phone: (757) 495-8229
48 TR1800 48 #4 Midget 65 Morgan 4/4 Series V
75 Bricklin SV1 77 Spitfire
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