Axle time.

[deering]

Working on correcting axle end play.
Drill small hole in the end of axle for a hardened stub to be pressed in.
Hole is around .300, wear face is 1".
Can't grab the big end in the lathe so both were attached using the u-joint.
I annealed a junk automatic trans main shaft, will machine, re-harden, aneel and press in the end of the axle reducing end play from 50ish thou to 2.
If you look close you can see the cold rolled piece I had pressed in, then I read they should be hardened so it's a do-over.

 

[Rruuff Day]

Kudos to you deering. Totally admire your mechanical aptitude. Sounds like you know your stuff and definitely not something I would try.

 

[deering]

I grew up tearing stuff apart. Now I have the tools to fix and put back together. I have enough to stuff to almost build anything except one thing lacking is time. I'll hopefully get some picks of the heat treating, anealing, and finished axle.
I'm 1/2 hr from Red Deer you have a C3?

 

[nascar03]

Deering. impressive toolling skills.
I think someone makes Teflon coated buttons for the stub axles.

graham

 

[deering]

I wonder how the Teflon holds out? These should last the rest of the life of the car. I got in on the Monday sales so I have a bunch of stuff on the way. Mostly all the rubber parts for the suspension and Brgs and seals for the diff.

 

[Bearly Flying]

Good Luck, C3's have a habit of leaking from any joint possible.

Pictures are nice.....

 

[deering]

Hears the doover.

Red drilled to 1/2

Machining new inserts out of annealed old trans shaft


Forge warming up for hardening

Yep they are hot, quenched in quench oil.

After quench.

Hears after repolishing and one annealed, the yellow one was put back in the forge and brought up to 400ish to aneal.
Surface ground the end to get the required clearance.

Beauty.
Next job is epoxy up the axle seal area. One side must have been repaired at one point. Seal area 1/2 wore off. Metal epoxy and remachine seal journal. I have another diff if this doesn't work, but there was a seal in there when I took it apart so it should be fine.

 

[Rruuff Day]

I grew up tearing stuff apart. Now I have the tools to fix and put back together. I have enough to stuff to almost build anything except one thing lacking is time. I'll hopefully get some picks of the heat treating, anealing, and finished axle.
I'm 1/2 hr from Red Deer you have a C3?

Hey Deering. Nope to owning a C3. Had a C6 up until late summer. C7 now. There's a few C3's around but no one I've met right in Red Deer. Ponoka has a not-to-miss Corvette meet and greet, usually late May that attracts a great cross section of models. Hopefully you're up and running by then. Always up for meeting people so sometime if you want to meet over coffee or a brew, pm me sometime. I'm 15 minutes SE of of Red Deer.

 

[Brian Keery]

Nice work, did you have to cut new grooves for the C-clips?

 

[deering]

No they weren't wore that far.

 

[XFIRE82]

Nice work, interesting idea. As far as using a teflon button there, I don't know about that being a good idea. My experience in stuff like trip shanks on a cultivator a 3/4" bolt in a plastic bushing you would think the plastic would wear before a strong steel bolt. Well wrong, the bolt wears out big time and the bushing hardly wears. So my guess the pinion shaft might get grooved out by the teflon if it rubs it long enough. But running in oil it should never wear you would think ??

 

[deering]

Only one way to find out.
Lots of pressure of the axle pushing on the cross shaft then turning. The Teflon may wear good but may get distorted from the pressure.