Good Morning All,
Tommachine,
Joe wanted me to disassemble the thing and ship it to him but I wanted to have someone look at it first. That's why I took it to Advanced Chassis, and am glad I did. I found out after putting it up on a lift and having full access to everything that there is not a crack in any of the welds on the tubes so I am good to go. My leak on the tube is coming from the vent that was installed. Easy fix, install a different kind of vent that won't allow the
oil out. There is however a crack in the rear of the center section part of the housing in one of the factory weld, also an easy fix, gring it down and reweld it.
One of my other problems was that I have been having a problem with bottoming out in the rear suspension. Ken from Advanced looked at the geometry and decided that the rearend housing must have been twisted in the jig when the control arm brackets were welded to the housing causing my pinion to point up at about a 7 degree angle causing the pig to contact the crossmember in that area. I have been trying to get my ride height set right and have had to settle for a more hot rod style rake with the rearend lifted up so that I didn't bottom. I discussed this with Ken (from Advanced and he asked me to have Joe call him and he could explain what was going on from a professional standpoint. Ken convinced Joe that in order to correct this problem easily that I would have to install a set of adjustable control arms to roll the rear housing down. Joe promptly offered to send me a set of their adjustables, so they should be on their way today.
Also Ken from Advanced said that the housing that is used on my car is a thin wall and under strain can create stress cracks in certain conditions, he said that the easiest/cheapest way to correct that is to fab up some reinforcements for the rear of the housing/tube assembly and weld it in place so that it goes side to side in a horizontal plane. while I have my rear out to reweld the crack, I will be building up this structure and installing it.
On a very good note, Ken at Advanced looked the car over and seemed to be pretty impressed with the overall product of A&C.
Roscoe,
The pinion angle on mine after I changed my rear crossmember, raising the tailshaft of the transmission approx. 2.5" was still at 5 degree angle from tailshaft to propshaft and 7 degree from propshaft to pinion causes excessive u-joint movement. By installing these adjustable control arm I can dial this angle down to a more acceptable angle.
Thanks again to all,
John
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