DeTomaso Mailing List: May 99, Message #12

Mike wrote:

>Don Franck recently described his success at tightening the stub axle nut to
fix the play in the rear wheel. 

>>>Actually, all his attempts to move the stub axle nut resulted in total 
FAILURE.  What happened was, thanks to some excellent advice from others on 
the list, he investigated his problem further and discovered that there was 
nothing wrong with his stub axle!  The movement he attributed to bad 
axle/bearings, was in fact caused by a totally thrashed lower shaft (joins 
the outermost part of the lower A-arm with the bottom of the hub carrier.)

So he's still screwed in the axle dep't, in the sense that he can't get the 
thing apart.  But since his axle/bearings are nice and tight, there's no 
immediate NEED for him to take 'em apart, so he's happy! :>)

And presumably he's well on his way to getting his lower shaft ass'y 
replaced...

Mike