Back axle blues
Good old Lee - he'd brought some overalls just in case Well, we had great plans the other day to fit a luvverly pair of specially shortened drive shafts into the rear axle of the Candidi Provocatores Allard, refit the axle and do the Testing Trial the following weekend but it didn't work out. This was the view along the good shaft and - as you can see - it's twisted along the length of the keyway and probably wouldn't transmit power for much longer We did a trial fit of the driveshafts and turning them in the diff it sounded "funny" - funny as in odd. This is the end of the broken shaft Bolting it up locked the diff and not in a good way. A lot of head scratching followed but we were heartened by the arrival of one of our buds, Lee Peck, motorsport nutcase, engineer and all round good egg. After more scrutiny, it would appear that the newly machined driveshafts are not a matched pair and that one of them has the gears machined into it at ...