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Re: it figures!!!

To: robert weeks <robert@woozy.com>
Subject: Re: it figures!!!
From: "Wm. Severin Thompson" <wsthompson@thicko.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 16:41:53 -0600
Robert,

I remember the first time I snapped an axle... same symptoms you described.
Happened to me in "The Bishop" <http://www.thicko.com/bishop.htm> when I drove
it down from Illinois to the Texas Healey Roundup in Lufkin.

As my racing comrades can attest... I've broke a lot more axles since then.
Let me know if you need instructions on how to fix it. (Usually takes less
than a 1/2 hour trackside).

WST

robert weeks wrote:

> Well, it just figures that as soon as I resubscribe to the spridgets
> list that something major would happen to my Midget. While taking off
> from a light I heard a loud crunch and then no power to the back wheels.
> I can put the car in gear with the handbrake on and the driveshaft
> spins but that's where it ends. I figure I fried the differential or
> I snapped an axel. But then again if I snapped an axel, shouldn't one
> wheel still spin?? Maybe I snapped both half shafts??? Or maybe I
> somehow angered MOWOG and snapped both half shafts and fried the diff.
>
> This kind of stuff used to upset me, but while waiting the 2+ hours for
> the flatbed to show up, it came to me that all you really can do is laugh.
>
> I'll never sell my LBC, no matter what MOWOG throws my way! ;-)
>
> Thanks for letting me "share"
>
> Robert Weeks
> Durham NC
> 1969 Midget
> http://www.woozy.com/midget/





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