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FE Power Forums => FE Technical Forum => Topic started by: Wreckless Warren on April 16, 2016, 12:58:49 PM
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We are very close to installing the engine/trans in the 65 P-Code restoration so it was time to rehab the drive shaft. I've had it stowed away for the last 10 years but the 25+ years the car spent away from me were not kind to the drive shaft. Looks like it spent a long time on 4 flats.
I see the drive shaft is what's called a tube in tube with the inner tube isolated from the outer tube with rubber. I wonder what condition that isolation material is in. I'm thinking I should have a new drive shaft made, I assume that would be a one piece. This is a 1965 Galaxie.
Your opinions please. ww
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I broke one of those inner tubes loose from the rubber once, with a 390 in a 67 Galaxie. It was in the winter, and I was spinning on some ice and then hit dry pavement. Car jumped for a second and then wouldn't move. Being fairly young at the time, I figured RPM would solve the problem ;D All it did was fill the car with burning rubber smoke. I'd replace that driveshaft, Warren...
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Thanks for starting my day with a good laugh Jay
Nothing like a teen's learning by trial and error.
Warren this place has been doing drive shafts for decades
Drive Line Service is located at:
200 Lane Avenue North
Jacksonville, FL 32254