Goofyexponent
Mentally Unstable..
I drive a 1979 Louisville....it has the 40 Eaton rearends. The rear tandem is the "new" fine spline hardware, and the front rearend is the "old" style coarse splines.
We are having a problem with the front axle and the through shaft breaking the coarse spline shafts. Up until yesterday, the truck broke 2 input shafts on the power divider, and two through shafts that the yoke goes on to on the back of the front rearend.
This morning while hauling a load, I stuck the truck into reverse and eased up on the clutch and heard a loud "pop"...there goes the power divider input shaft again! Had one of our other dump trucks towed me to the jobsite where i dumped the load and called the big wrecker to come get her.
I had that input shaft in the truck from the day it was new until now...and I am NOT ******* my gear....especially if it is not my own truck.
We are pretty puzzled as to what is causing these shafts to break. Any thoughts on what to look for? I am going to tear it apart tomorrow and IF the right parts show up this time I will have her running in no time.
We are having a problem with the front axle and the through shaft breaking the coarse spline shafts. Up until yesterday, the truck broke 2 input shafts on the power divider, and two through shafts that the yoke goes on to on the back of the front rearend.
This morning while hauling a load, I stuck the truck into reverse and eased up on the clutch and heard a loud "pop"...there goes the power divider input shaft again! Had one of our other dump trucks towed me to the jobsite where i dumped the load and called the big wrecker to come get her.
I had that input shaft in the truck from the day it was new until now...and I am NOT ******* my gear....especially if it is not my own truck.
We are pretty puzzled as to what is causing these shafts to break. Any thoughts on what to look for? I am going to tear it apart tomorrow and IF the right parts show up this time I will have her running in no time.