Thread: No drive

Originally Posted by intheozone

That sucks!!

Sorry to hear of your dramas and I was also sorry I could not make it my self for the W4 Challenge.

Dramas with the car aside you missed a fantastic weekend . I'll be back for more next year.

Gary

I was looking forward to meeting you and your rigs.

Step number one completed, the car is now at home ($350 on the back of a tow truck for around 140 k's) and has had the mud power cleaned off it (hopefully it will rain a bit more and clean the mud off the driveway ). Step two is where the "fun begins" diagnosis and part replacement. The front prop shaft definitely turns when in gear trying to drive the front wheels, however, with the front left CV almost certainly destroyed there is no forwards momentum. As for the rear drive???

As a side thought if I had the Ashcroft ATB in the front the RHS would have continued to drive but possibly leading to greater damage along the drivetrain should the stuffed CV seize up?

Gary

Hey Gary,
Glad you got it home safely.
$350 isn't bad, thats about as much fuel as I used getting you back to camp .
Hope you find the reason for the no rear drive and it doesn't hurt the wallet to much.
Catch you at the awards night.

Ben

Hi Gary, pleasure to have given you a lift home. I'm very curious as to the diagnosis. Hope it's not expensive. Cheers Vernon

A bit unusual that two things have gone wrong at once, or just unlucky.

Glad you've got it back home, at least drive line work is reasonably simple on the p38s.

I was discussing your no drive issue with PeterJam earlier and he seems to think if you have completely disengaged a front CV by it or the axle shaft breaking you could lose all drive. I am not clever enough to grasp it however Peter is very clued up on these things. With that in mind If I were you I would deal with the front CV first and see the result.
Get a cv from the UK if you need one. My last one was something silly like 25 pounds plus shipping.

Originally Posted by OneGoat

Hey Gary,
Glad you got it home safely.
$350 isn't bad, thats about as much fuel as I used getting you back to camp .
Hope you find the reason for the no rear drive and it doesn't hurt the wallet to much.
Catch you at the awards night.

Ben

Thanks Ben, I really appreciated the tow back to camp! Northam Towing is who I used, hopefully I'll not need to use them again but would happily recommend them.

All been well I'll se you at the awards night.

Gary