From: captw1 (captw1@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Dec 16 2004 - 08:39:32 PST
when I used to service trucks that were frequently off
road, ie. garbage trucks, dump trucks, etc., we used
to pull the axles and mill a relief cut into the shaft
just inside the hub, that way if the axle broke, which
was infrequent, all you had to do was remove the hub
and pull the axle...it worked very well for us, low
down time...Wilf
--- chance wolf <chance_wolf@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Ternes" <racecadet@yahoo.com>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List"
> <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 8:01 AM
> Subject: Re: [MV] Broken M37 Axle shaft
>
>
> > Hi Jim,
> >
> > Ahh, good times, good times. Nothing like the fun
> > of removing broken axle shafts.
>
> The long-side shaft pretty much always seems to
> break on the M37. Once I
> successfully pushed an Allied Van Lines moving truck
> out of a ditch with my
> own M37 shortly after I bought it, only to snap the
> axle shaft the day after
> as I was on my way to work. My neighbour used to
> repair those trucks in the
> Canadian Army and told me how much fun it was to get
> the stub out, and also
> said that one of the tricks they used to use was to
> take an arc welder, hook
> the business-end up to a long rod completely
> insulated except for the very
> tip, ground the ground clamp to the frame - then
> slide the works down the
> axle tube until making contact with the stub. After
> a brief Zap, your
> insulated rod should have welded itself to the
> broken stub. Anyway, or so
> the theory goes. I didn't have an arc-welder handy
> at the time so I had to
> do it the old-fashioned way and pull the diff. And
> swear alot.
>
> Yes...there was much swearing.
>
>
>
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