Cracks In My Rear

[John Poling]

PNJSNAK and all who are interested,

This is the first poor report that I have had with A&C.

Joe told me to take pictures of the cracks and send them to him with the areas marked where the cracks are at or to remove the assembly and have it truck freighted to him in Buffalo and he will either repair or replace it. This would be very expensive for me and probably wouldn't be worth it since Moser Engineering is less than 45 minutes away and I could just have them build new tubes and put it back together (Minus the extra welds) and probably still have less than $200 in it.

I mentioned to him that one of the cracks is in the weld in the center of the axle tube and he said that he didn't remember that ever being done on their axle housings.

If you are an A&C owner and can look at your rear axle assembly, please do me a favor and look to see if you have welds around the center of the tube other than the welds that are for the control arm mounts. Also if you are able to, please snap a picture of the welds and post them to this thread and state approximately how old your original kit is. It almost seems like Joe may not know for sure how his axle housings are being made.

I spoke with some people here at work that have been personally involved with several BIG NAME racers like John Lingenfelter, and the Moser family from Moser Engineering (Moser axle assemblies) which by the way are both right here in my back yard, and they stated that if the tube had been cut in the center that it was done incorrectly.

I will be taking the car to Advanced Chassis in Antwerp, Ohio soon for their input. I will try to remember to let you all know the outcome of that meeting.

Like I stated at first, this is the first time that I have felt I needed to post a somewhat bad review about A&C. I am for the most part very happy with the overall kit.

PS...Please post pictures of rear housing if possible, this would help bunches.

Thank you.
John