After many month and some craziness my 73 Mustang is back and it’s sporting a new drive Shaft.
If you recall when I purchased the Mustang the car looked like it had driven into a concrete tube, mashing in both front fenders and doing damage to the front end. Here are the pics from the day I purchased it:
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As you can see the damage on the fenders are similar. The story didn’t match the damage but I didn’t care, just interesting. What I didn’t notice then or even when I pulled it off the car was that the drive shaft had been welded about 5 inches from the rear end. I also didn’t notice, when I removed the u-joints that the yoke was damaged – flattened on multiple sides.
When the shop tried to replace the u-joints the new ones would not go into the yoke. (I wish I had saved the pic of that damage.) The specialty shop give an estimate for what the repair might be, but after discovering the welded repair and the damaged yoke, they decided to replace everything. What was really cool is they did it for the same price!!!
Here’s a look at the new shaft. (NOT A CRANK SHAFT….geezzz – you see…).
Thanks for reading.
Tim
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Nice!
Get it ready for some shows when cooler weather is here.
That’s a goal!!! They lost my transmission linkage just ordered one. They lost my NEW battery there’s some old junk battery in there…barely cranks the car over. Lost my starter but did put ‘new’ one in. Sort of fixed the exhaust…but no exhaust hangers – bungee corded it.