I had two of my Mechanics students going through the "rear axle rebuild" lab. They were stripping a Volare rear end on a work bench.
Only one axle came out reasonably nicely, the other was stuck good. Like freaking stuck good.
We ended up having to grind some of the ring gear teeth just a bit so we could slide the differential pin out, remove the spiders and side gears and hammer through the carrier. Keep in mind these are "dead" axles - they will never go into a car again, and this one had never been apart before.
One kid was holding the housing at the stuck end, while the other was swinging the Man Hammer on a length of 1" solid round stock to drive the axle out from the other end. Thankfully, the axle started moving.
No one was more surprised than the kid holding the axle housing, when the shaft popped free and nailed him in the nuts.
Aaaahhh, good times.
4g63t
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5/11/10 10:45 p.m.
I needed a laugh. Thank You, Sir.
Sometimes they have to learn by doing.
Shawn
Hurting nads is the best rememberer.
SkinnyG wrote:
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No one was more surprised than the kid holding the axle housing, when the shaft popped free and nailed him in the nuts.
Aaaahhh, good times.
I agree... needed the laugh. Thankyou!
Appleseed wrote:
Hurting nads is the best rememberer.
Amen. Also: I've got a bad habit of using my big fat gut as a 'third hand.' Getting said big fat gut pinched with the handles of a rivet gun, and the resulting big gnarly blood blister cured me of that habit for a couple weeks.
You didn't by chance film this, did you?
poopshovel wrote:
Appleseed wrote:
Hurting nads is the best rememberer.
Amen. Also: I've got a bad habit of using my big fat gut as a 'third hand.' Getting said big fat gut pinched with the handles of a rivet gun, and the resulting big gnarly blood blister cured me of that habit for a couple weeks.
Couple of weeks? Sounds like my safety short term memory.
After having an optomitrist scrape a chunk of rust out of my eyeball I swore I would never touch a car without safety glasses on. That lasted a couple of weeks too...
