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Title: Yeah, that's about right.
Post by: Haystack on December 16, 2017, 08:37:41 PM
First real snow fall of the year, and my driveshaft broke. At work, on a delivery.

Had a bit of a vibration at 75mph. If I sped up or slowed down, the vibrarion went away. I planned on replacing it, I even have another driveshaft with new u-joints in storage. Oh well.
Title: Yeah, that's about right.
Post by: ZondaC12 on December 18, 2017, 10:28:20 PM
Wow. I just suffered an awfully-timed major failure on my winter beater. Shortly after a WHOLE bunch of attention given to it too.
I'll punch through this wall too...but yeah. What the F.
Title: Yeah, that's about right.
Post by: Haystack on December 19, 2017, 01:34:47 AM
I swapped my 86 cougar driveshaft in to get it home. The bug deal now is the exhaust. It was rotted out above the axle hump, and the driveshaft messed up everything after the cat. I pulled the exhaust after the cat just so I can drive, its pretty loud.  I also ended up jacking the cat up with a jack, it was pointed down about 30° and only had about 2" of ground clearance.

Gonna steal the exhaust off my 88, which I also stole off my 86, cause its way too loud as is. Snow storm Wednesday, so gonna try to get it done tomorrow. Gonna be a balmy 44°f tomorrow