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In a message dated 8/8/02 3:02:53 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
echemike@earthlink.net writes:
> Does anyone have this tool they can lend me. Just once I'd like to change
> drive shafts and take the oscillating arms off without removing the solid
> rear axle and having to re-adjust it. If you do please email me.
> Thanks,
> Mike
Anyone know if Gordons has any of these tools or could have some made
up? Craig in Alaska
Mike, You may be referring to tool # AC12 "Assembly tool for oscillating
axle"that is used with # AC22-2 "washer and hexagon nut."
OK this is what I have done. Once I asked if I could just put a bolt in the
end of the axle and pull it out a bit with a claw hammer, unanimously the
answer was no so I did not try that. The day before I left for Celina I
decided to adjust the clutch that meant pull the drive shafts and
transmission. I removed the pinch bolts did the adjustments and I needed to
get it back together this is what happened. I removed one of the grease
fittings and went to the hardware store. The bolt size is 8 mm x 3 "long, get
a flat washer, a fender washer and a 8 mm nut. Back at the car reinstall the
drive shaft and place the oscillating arm onto the end of the axle, it won't
go on all the way because of the spring in the drive shaft. Now screw the 8
mm nut to the top of the bolt put the two washers on and screw the bolt into
the end of the axle finger tip tight tell it stops only finger tip tight. Now
for the fun part take a wrench and begin to run the nut down the bolt and you
will see the arm slide onto the axle. Now I placed the pinch bolt into the
arm continued to tighten the 8 mm nut until it fell into place. This will
work, maybe it took someone foolhardy enough to risk there axle to try it,
what can I say. This was so easy I had to get up and do a little Amphi dance.
Be bold Mike give it a try, if I can do it you can for sure - Tommy in Tampa
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echemike@earthlink.net writes:
> Does anyone have this tool they can lend me. Just once I'd like to change
> drive shafts and take the oscillating arms off without removing the solid
> rear axle and having to re-adjust it. If you do please email me.
> Thanks,
> Mike
Anyone know if Gordons has any of these tools or could have some made
up? Craig in Alaska
Mike, You may be referring to tool # AC12 "Assembly tool for oscillating
axle"that is used with # AC22-2 "washer and hexagon nut."
OK this is what I have done. Once I asked if I could just put a bolt in the
end of the axle and pull it out a bit with a claw hammer, unanimously the
answer was no so I did not try that. The day before I left for Celina I
decided to adjust the clutch that meant pull the drive shafts and
transmission. I removed the pinch bolts did the adjustments and I needed to
get it back together this is what happened. I removed one of the grease
fittings and went to the hardware store. The bolt size is 8 mm x 3 "long, get
a flat washer, a fender washer and a 8 mm nut. Back at the car reinstall the
drive shaft and place the oscillating arm onto the end of the axle, it won't
go on all the way because of the spring in the drive shaft. Now screw the 8
mm nut to the top of the bolt put the two washers on and screw the bolt into
the end of the axle finger tip tight tell it stops only finger tip tight. Now
for the fun part take a wrench and begin to run the nut down the bolt and you
will see the arm slide onto the axle. Now I placed the pinch bolt into the
arm continued to tighten the 8 mm nut until it fell into place. This will
work, maybe it took someone foolhardy enough to risk there axle to try it,
what can I say. This was so easy I had to get up and do a little Amphi dance.
Be bold Mike give it a try, if I can do it you can for sure - Tommy in Tampa
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