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09-07-2003, 08:19 PM
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WHYBYNU when old will do?
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Loudon, NH
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My friends truck, good news and bad news!!!
Phew, finally got caught up looking through the posts here so I can post again without getting to confused. First the good news:
My friend finally got the V8/TH350 in place of the former I6/3 speed column. Got the motor running and tuned it a bit. (I was there helping him, and now know what it feels like to get my hand hit by the engine fan while its running. Doh!) He took it to the loacl cruise night a week and a half ago, and I asked how he moved it without the proper column or driveshaft. He said he made his own driveshaft, by cuttin two and welding them together at the correct length temporarily so he could move it around the yard (and get it to the show that night), and he hooked up the TH350 to the 3 speed column, and it worked great (just no shift indicator). I didn't know you can do that. Bad news to follow on the next post.
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09-07-2003, 08:28 PM
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WHYBYNU when old will do?
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And now the bad news:
In the middle of last week he was driving down the road (dont know the whole story, he could have been screwing around), and he hears this big bang. Back end lifts off the ground. u joint cap shoots out and dents his bedside, and as he lands, the chrome rings pop off his rims and roll down the road past him.  Here is a pic of the driveshaft.
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09-07-2003, 08:30 PM
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WHYBYNU when old will do?
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He thought it was just the driveshaft (the ubolts holding it on were mangled), so he went and had one built and balanced at a shop around here. Tranny wouldn't go into gear. So he looked closer, and this is what he found:
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09-07-2003, 08:31 PM
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WHYBYNU when old will do?
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Kinda ruins your whole day, huh? Now he needs a new tranny. He had taken this one out of a wrecked truck, so we're guessing it had stress cracks in it that he didn't see. Heres another pic:
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09-07-2003, 08:43 PM
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Holy sh*t, that's bad!
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09-07-2003, 08:45 PM
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Had that happen when I neutral dropped a car one time ....ATF WENT EVERYWHERE...
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09-07-2003, 08:51 PM
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Resident Curmudgeon
 
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I have a working th400 or a rebuildable th350 core if your friend is interested. Looks like he may be in the market. All pulled from 67-72 trucks.
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09-07-2003, 08:56 PM
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That was pretty silly to drive something like that on a public road. Drive shafts are made as a single peice of tubing for a reason ... its called balance. Sorry for the flame here ... but that has to be one of the silliest things I have heard in a very long time.
Last edited by Shane; 09-07-2003 at 09:13 PM. |
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09-07-2003, 09:08 PM
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Ditto what Shane said!!
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09-07-2003, 09:15 PM
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ok guys - you will have to help me out here.... the woman is lost...
i was looking at these pictures, and comparing to my truck (which is a manual on the column) --- and i dont understand what we are supposed to see in the pictures. is the transmission so far towards the drivers side in that first pic? is that it? did the transmission come off of the cross member? someone describe what has happened here, cause with only my truck to compare this picture to, i'm a little lost. sorry. call me a woman!  jewels.
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09-07-2003, 09:16 PM
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Nah, that's not so silly. The guy that I heard about today that set the firecracker off in his butt... now THAT was silly. Well, then again, the driveshaft thing is/was silly. The firecracker thing was just stupid.
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09-07-2003, 09:23 PM
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Jewels, look in the second pic at the jagged crack running across the middle of the picture. That's the transmission bell housing, and it's in two pieces.
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09-07-2003, 09:23 PM
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The case can be welded.. I bought a 350 turbo with a welded case. You just need the right guy to do it.
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09-07-2003, 09:25 PM
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here ya go Jewels
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09-07-2003, 09:25 PM
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WHYBYNU when old will do?
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Yeah, I told him the same thing about the driveshaft, he said it went down the road with no vibrations and it was only temporary until he had the custom driveshaft built. The suprising thing is that the driveshaft didn't break on the welds.
CPNE, he already got a TH350 core from someone his dad knows, got a auto trans column too at the same time. jewels, what you are seeing in the pictures is the huge crack that goes completely around the housing of the transmission. It's still bolted to the motor, but not connected anymore. Basically, the housing is in 2 or 3 pieces. *edit* Just saw Shane's pic. Sums it up pretty good. The things some impatient people do just to drive their truck again.
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09-07-2003, 09:26 PM
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Quote:
WOW!!!!! That was some silly thing to do --- run a drive shaft like that. WOW! Thanks Truckster! jewels.
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09-07-2003, 09:34 PM
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Yeah, I didn't see the crack either til I looked for a minute. When I figured out what I was looking at, I knew that couldn't be good.
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09-07-2003, 10:24 PM
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WOW!!!
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09-07-2003, 10:56 PM
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Live life and be happy.
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I've never seen the Grand Canyon before. I heard it looks something like that. Sorry to hear about your friends misfortune.
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09-08-2003, 03:27 PM
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Not good
Just went out on a call lastnight, Kid coming hard off intersection, neighbors heard a large bang and assumed it was an accident, we got out there and all we found was a kid walking around, scratching his head and driveshaft pieces laying around. NEW flowmasters smashed on the ground and a fuel line broken and dripping on to the exhaust(Lucky no fire). Of course when his dad arrived, the story was.."I was just driving along and all of a sudden....." His dad yealled at him, told him he was lucking it didnt pole vault him, and wont be driving again until he can afford to replace all broken parts.
Good lesson to learn early and good dad for enforcing that.
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09-08-2003, 03:41 PM
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HAD A FRIEND THT WAS SHOWIN OF ONE NIGHT IN HIS NOVA AND WAS RUNNIN DOWN THE ROAD HIT SECOND GEAR BROKE OFF THE U JOINT AND THE DRIVESHAFT BOUNCED UP AND PUT 2 BIG HOLES IN THE REAR FLOOR B 4 IT SPIT OUT BEHIND HIM
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09-08-2003, 08:10 PM
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I am a Referee of life.
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Helps to understand why NHRA requires driveshaft loops.I have seen major damage from driveshafts.This looks somewhat minor compared to some.
I once "HAD" an aquaintance who had a driveshaft come thru the floorboard of a pick-up.It beat him to death,and broke his brothers arm and cracked his skull.
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09-08-2003, 10:24 PM
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Back when I was in college I worked at a fix-it shop with two full service gas pumps on a corner where there is a 4-way stop sign. So one day I'm outside filling a car, washing the windows, checking oil, etc. when this '75 Monte pulls up to the stop sign. Not another car in sight. He floors it, gets about 50 feet, and WHACK, thunka, thunka, thunka....
He stops almost directly across the street from me, gets out, sees the driveshave laying on the ground, drops the loudest F-bomb I had ever heard up until that point in my life, boots the car door, looks at me, then continues walking up the street in the direction he was headed.
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09-08-2003, 10:33 PM
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My other Love
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well Im not the least bit surprised with the driveshaft, that thing was probably so severely unbalanced that it shook the hell out of everything on that truck, welding two driveshafts together is never a good idea, kinda how like hammering a pushrod straight is never a good idea either
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