Next Years Power Tour Car Part 2

[kwhizz]

Phil..........We will be in the Dakota Digital Display booth daily..........Charley will be in the Mothers Display.....


Ken

[Woj]

Thanks Ken. Phil

[Xplantdad]

Great...take lots of pics and video Ken! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]

[kwhizz]

The Story continues.......Moral of the story..........one thing touches another and another and so on......LOL..... (But......We are very close).........When initially putting the driveline together........I had an issue where the driveshaft shop installed the rear universal with the grease fitting and bulged area for the fitting towards the rear of the car.......I didn't notice that the raised area of the joint was hitting against the threaded area of the pinion shaft where the nut is..........to go back in the process......I had the car raised up and sitting on jack stands on the frame.........so....I started the engine and added trans fluid .....when I put the car in gear to get the trans fluid pumped thru the trans.....the car scared the hell out of me as it almost shook itself off the stands......took me a while to find that interference issue......Pulled the driveshaft out and took it back and they put new universals in installed the correct way..........so.....Fast forward and as I was driving the car I had a slight rear end howl...........So .......we are leaving in 3 days for the Power Tour and last night I was thinking about how that rear end shook so violently at that time and the rear end howl.........Hummm!!!.......You know when you get that Knot in your stomach???...........Time is getting very short and this little mis-adventure was coming back to &quot;Haunt&quot; me.....So......I called Jimmy at Chassis Service (who did the rear originally) and asked him if he could put my mind at ease and check it out.......He laughed and said &quot;You need it when&quot;???...........Bottom line he fit me in this afternoon.........He just called me and said I was Lucky I didn't take the car the way it was as the bearings had started eating them selves and the Ring and Pinion were worn to a point of him not being comfortable with them...........So........He said he was on his way down to Strange Engineering to get all new parts and he would have it back together tomorrow afternoon.......Sheesh.........One little error by the driveshaft guy is now getting $$$$$$$$$$$$$$.............Cars...........LOL

On another note......I went to a little car show on Sunday and the original owner of the car who restored it was there and read me the &quot;Riot&quot; act for ruining his car...........It was an Interesting conversation to say the least........LOL

[Postsedan]

I went to a little car show on Sunday and the original owner of the car who restored it was there and read me the &quot;Riot&quot; act for ruining his car...........It was an Interesting conversation to say the least........LOL
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HA! I bet his reaction was.....&quot;DAMN&quot; (Inside Joke) [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/haha.gif[/img]

Dan

[Xplantdad]

Wow...glad you found it out! As far as the other guy...to each his own [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]

[napa68]

I suppose the guy from the Impala would too.................... if he had the balls to talk to ya [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/bs.gif[/img]

[427TJ]

The guy who sold Ken the Impala doesn't give a sh*t. The guy who did the Chevelle does! (He should have kept it then.)

[kwhizz]

Got the car back today with new bearings and Ring and Pinion (Again!!!) in the rear axle assy.......That stupid universal problem ended up Brinelling all the bearings and as I understand it......the pressure from it hitting and binding the pinion gear it actually changed the preload on the crush sleeve which then in turn caused a wear pattern on the gears that Jimmy was uncomfortable with.......so......Everything is new again and the car is now quiet...............$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[SuperNovaSS]

Just curious, do you mention this to the driveshaft shop or just call it water under the bridge? I'm not sure what I would do but my ass would hurt either way. Sorry to hear the news Ken.

Jason