Rear Axle Half Shaft Changes.

[Bob Culver]

The repair certainly displays resource. Could perhaps understand if done in place but obviously had to be done apart. Something to remember if stranded in Outer Mongolia. Most would attempt some sort of weld. Presumably the break was as Stuarts recent photo and cleaned up with very little removed. (As another axle with good taper but damage elsewhere is very unlikely, hopefully a good long axle was not sacrificed as donor!) Are transverse breaks away from the taper relatively common? Just when I thought crack testing of the accessible part was a 100% gaurantee! Under some conditions the torque on the wheel can be a few hundred pound ft so it is incredible that it stayed tight, although if a piece of very HT used and was tightened to formidable torque and the driver gentle may have worked for a long time. Maybe they just did a few Seven hops at the outset. Presumably it was lhs! (Nearside in Pomspeak)