USED
AXLE SHAFTS
come
stripped; reuse your old backing plate, wheel
cylinder, brake adjuster, shim(s), wheel studs and
bearing spacer. You will need to install a new
bearing, collar, outer seal. These parts; inner seals
and other rear axle components are listed on the NEW
DIFFERENTIAL/REAR AXLE page.
Typically we knock the old studs out as there is no
way to guess at their condition. Have they been run
with the lugs loose and are ready to snap? If somehow
we send an axle with studs it is only by accident
and/or by your request and the studs have ZERO
warranty or guarantee of ANYTHING. They may be
mistreaded; ready to break immediately or dissolve
into dust. You are buying the axle; nothing more.
The
only reason I bring up the next subject is a fellow
mentioned it today. The subject is bent axles; which
his original one suffers from. I have only seen this
from two cars and both of these had extremely violent
collision damage. This roadster frames and suspensions
date back to 50s trucks and are very well built. I
myself "tested" a roadster against a Mustang traveling
sideways at about 50mph in my lane as I was also doing
about 45-50 on December 4th 1974.
Other
than the two examples previously mentioned I have not
come across a bent axle situation so have never had
them tested. The cost to check for such an infrequent
event would most likely be cost prohibitive unless I
set up some kind of a jig to do it myself and learned
how to use it. I suppose that could still be
considered a monetary loss and my intent is to keep
these out of the scrapyard by being able to sell them
at a decent price. We do have them stripped as shown
below as shipping them with the backing plate would
jack shipping costs way up and you never know if the
axle will show it cannot hold a bearing properly; a
far more common problem which gives them a fast ride
to the scrap steel trailer.
So
what I'm saying by all of this is although I think it
unlikely; there is always some slim chance we may ship
you a "bent" axle. Nobody knows what the specs are
with these for a "good" axle so that is a problem in
itself. We'll exchange it; but the shipping would be
the negative aspect. Before I would start absorbing
shipping costs I'd probably just chuck all of these at
this stage of the game. I may talk to the shop again
when we do a batch again and see what the actual
charge would be to spin all of them even though I know
it is probably a wasted effort.