Tyler's 1971 Chevelle Restoration

[Nova Research Project]

And then things ground to a halt. The 86 Blazer you see in the background above is Tyler's daily driver. At the auto parts store picking up a few parts Tyler hears some posi chatter on the rear while backing up. Then a loud pop.

I ask him to drive the car in a turn in the street in front of the house. Sure enough it looks like the posi was binding. Typical fix is to replace the oil and add some limited slip additive. Then drive figure eights.

Since Tyler needs 10 hours working cars every week for school and he has not had much experience on axles I figure he can handle this.

He pops the axle cover and sees this:




Tyler, Picking pieces of metal out of the housing.



Lots of shiny metal fragments. Not good [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/mad.gif[/img]

These axles have the gov lock type posi. Hard to rebuild and notorious for grenading for no reason. The fact that the Blazer has 260,000 on it and this just happened is a good thing. Next step is an after market Eaton Posi unit.

This will delay some of the Chevelle work and dig into the budget. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/cry.gif[/img]

Tomorrow promises to be a nice day so expect there to be time for both the Blazer and the Chevelle.

More later,
Greg