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Re: driveshafts

To: "Larry Vaughan" <lvaughan@pldi.net>, <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: driveshafts
From: doug@dougbraun.com
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 12:09:11 -0400
>Sliding splines are a weak point, in the long run. I guess I'll buy the solid
>driveshaft. The sellor descibes it as just under 38".

Do you mean the kind with the four sets of short metal straps on one end?
They have their own weakness: The short telescoping section
in the middle of the straps can seize up, or the straps can break.

Doug Braun
'72 Spit 





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