<VV> Loose axle

[wfcc at mediacombb.net]

Hugo, 

 I don't think I've  seen it asked here, but this play you are talking about, Is it when the car is jacked up and the wheels are hanging free ? If so that is normal. especially on the side with the short stub axle. They fixed that problem on the much improved late models...…… but Smitty wouldn't know about that…<GGG>

                                                                        Ed Lindsay
                                                                        West Florida Corvairs
----- Original Message -----
From: Hugo Miller via VirtualVairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
Sent: Wed, 04 Mar 2020 17:45:47 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: <VV> Loose axle


On 2020-03-04 16:02, Smitty wrote:
[edited]
> I would like you to be more restrained when commenting.  I didn’t see
> Bills comments as being patronizing.  Just a knowlegible longtime
> Early owner trying to keep a newbie from making what could be an
> expensive and time consuming mistake.  It doesn’t pay to assume when
> dealing with persons ranging from automotive engineers to a teen age
> kid that doesn’t know a left handed monkey wrench from a screwdriver.
>        Smitty
>
> Sent from my iPad


This is the comment I described as patronising;

"Hugo - please stop tinkering with your car.  Take some time to get the 
appropriate manuals and read and familiarize yourself with the parts of 
your car before you go any further.  Or, if not that, meet up with a 
local Corvair club to look over it with you.
Bill"

And it is. Damned patronising. Telling me to stop 'tinkering' with my 
own car. Who has the right to tell me that? I've been 'tinkering' with 
cars and commercial vehicles in a professional capacity for the last 
fifty-odd years.
I was seeking advice on whether anybody had similar experience of play 
in the axle shaft, as I couldn't see exactly where it originated. I will 
happily listen to advice from any quarter. But please don't talk down to 
me. That is guaranteed to piss me off.
Going back to my original question, there seems to be a consensus that 
the play is where the yoke runs in the diff gear / housing. There is 
just a remote possibility that a new yoke will cure or alleviate it, but 
Sod's law says that's unlikely. I've got to drop the whole lot out some 
time soon anyway, so it will have to do until that happens.


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