M200 breakage

Bill Edgeworth · 04-12-2010, 11:04 PM

Thinking about it more I would agree with what Bob and Mark both said. With the 60 foot you had the trans and drive shaft did not see a huge amount of torque. And I assume from what you said it did not shake or shudder on launch. It didn’t happen until the trans was in drive and starting to get up in RPM.
So probably something driveshaft related. The one thing I would check on the remnants of your transmission is the tail shaft bushing to make sure the yoke was not super sloppy in it. Could your drive shaft have been bent or dented? or overall length or yoke length a little short? Or touching drive shaft loop?
When Jim works on it you may want to also consider a roller bearing in the tail shaft.
Is that Peter Legg’s old car?
Are you going to have it back together for Bosie?

04-12-2010, 11:04 PM	#11
Bill Edgeworth Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Tacoma, WA Posts: 258 Likes: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: M200 breakage Thinking about it more I would agree with what Bob and Mark both said. With the 60 foot you had the trans and drive shaft did not see a huge amount of torque. And I assume from what you said it did not shake or shudder on launch. It didn’t happen until the trans was in drive and starting to get up in RPM. So probably something driveshaft related. The one thing I would check on the remnants of your transmission is the tail shaft bushing to make sure the yoke was not super sloppy in it. Could your drive shaft have been bent or dented? or overall length or yoke length a little short? Or touching drive shaft loop? When Jim works on it you may want to also consider a roller bearing in the tail shaft. Is that Peter Legg’s old car? Are you going to have it back together for Bosie? __________________ Bill Edgeworth 6471 STK