anniversary run carnage

[scout man]

Here is a good shot of my broken axle shaft from this past weekend. Nice clean break, and look at the spiralling on those splines!!

On a related note, I now have a new shifter knob in my truck! (pics tomorrow)

[The StRanger]

Thats a nice little twist ya got goin there !!!

[Shane]

That would make a cool shifter knob!!

[scout man]

already done! made it into a shifter knob today. No pic though, it was dark.

I am willing to bet that twist was a long time coming. In fact, before the anniversary run I had been hearing a bit of a grinding in that corner, and actually pulled that axle shaft out before the run because I thought it was the bearing going bad. Didnt actually look at the splines though, as I just pulled it far enough to see the bearing, it was fine, so I put it back together. I guess I should have pulled it all the way out! Not sure why a twist in the splines would cause a grinding though, unless it was just forcing extra pressure onto the bearing

[Java]

Artistic breakage!!

[glacierpaul]

Nice way to recycle Steve! I love seeing metal twisted or bent, not neccesarily while on trail though .

[carpenle]

Very nice, I like the shifer knob idea. I am glad you were able to get it fixed on the trail.

[Fordguy77]

Seems like a very clean break, nice shifter Steve. Now in tradition

[scout man]

I see pics ^^^^

Here is the shifter though

[glacierpaul]

Cool!

[Brad]

It's in the pickup, I wasn't expecting that.

[scout man]

yea, the shifters in the scout are kind of stuck with what they are, as they are all rather specialty

[Shane]

Looks good!