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RE: The horrors that lay within... - Chris KC - 29-03-2020
Interesting - it seems to fared much better than the crown wheel - my own experience has been the opposite!
RE: The horrors that lay within... - Ruairidh Dunford - 29-03-2020
Have you run an axle with the thrust bearings round the wrong way?
RE: The horrors that lay within... - Chris KC - 29-03-2020
Not as far as I'm aware.....
RE: The horrors that lay within... - dickie65 - 29-03-2020
I thought water was not a good lubricant for a back axle.
It all looks lacking in oil and rusty as well as backwards bearings.
I can only assume it has been in long term storage without oil.
It must have been very noisy when it was last used before it failed.
The pinion has probably been retrofitted after the previous on got shredded.
Are the crownwheel and pinion from a matched pair ?
RE: The horrors that lay within... - Ruairidh Dunford - 29-03-2020
The axle has not been used for many, many years. However, I can still see the engineers blue on parts of it so this happened very quickly after it was "fixed". Pinion and C/W are matched but Pinion was pulled out some time ago, hence rust.
RE: The horrors that lay within... - Bob Culver - 29-03-2020
Very curious. Easy for an amateur or even "mechanic" to reverse the bearings but tendency is to drop out of mesh not wedge in.
Seems to have broken from drive side so not triggered by brutal tow start. Cars survive mechanical disasters which lock wheels.
is it an Austin cw or some overhardened aftermarket brand? Failed gears in other makes often show fatigue cracks part way through.