Re: Travelette powertrain.. brownies..

["Ryan Moore" <baradium@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Mac @ TRIAD" <mac@domain.elided>
To: "Ryan Moore" <baradium@domain.elided>; <tsm1@domain.elided>
Cc: "ihc-digest" <ihc@domain.elided>
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 20:56
Subject: RE: Travelette powertrain.. brownies..


> ## >> The RA-15s axle shafts?   I don't know if even you can break
> ## >> those....  ;)
>
> now you got *me* wondering...  *can* you break those shafts?  i never
> worried about it before, but now i'm curious.  my dad stuck three and a
half
> tons of bricks in the back of the B122 with an RA15 and the truck didn't
> even seem to notice, though he never did take it out of first gear (he was
> using the truck with the bricks for traction to pull a locked-up-in-gear
> early '60s F750 flatbed truck around our back lot)...
>
> and, uh, Tom M?  i thought you had an RA20?  what gives?
>
> ## >> Seriously though, I've never heard of anyone breaking an
> ## >> RA-15, have you?
>
> well, Ryan, then you just weren't paying enough attention to my earliest
> posts when i first got to the Digest.  *I* broke an RA15 once (and my
mother
> detonated the original open diff third member once herself about 14 years
> before i broke the replacement "No-Spin", though i won't say how she did
> it).  i did trash the axle, just didn't break the axle shafts or anything
> like that.
>
<snip>

Oh yes, a slight slip in my memory... guess the only solution is for tom to
get a set of big rockwell axles under the travelette so it's not an issue,
how about some from a 2.5 or 5 ton army truck?  The rearmost rear and the
steering axle?

:D

-Ryan