[DeTomaso] Original half axle question

[adin at frontier.net]

Fools.

All Panteras delivered w/ the Oldsmobile Rocket 88 362" motor had red  
arrows to indicate how to pour water out of a bottle.  Look on the  
bottom of the bottle if you have never seen them.

IRRC, (cue weird music - you are entering the realm of the old, tired  
sedated male mind - more weird music) the half shafts were "big side  
out" and someone thought you could swap ends and save 4.1 grams in  
unsprung wt.  No, really.


Truth /\/\/\/\/\/\/\





Quoting Charles Engles <cengles at cox.net>:

> Dear Jeff,
>
>
>                   "He said the original half shafts had a red arrow on them
> to indicate which direction they should go, i.e. the arrow points outward."
>
>
>                     One of my Panteras had 2100 miles on it when I purchased
> it in 1988.    I have never seen a "red arrow", or any other arrow, on them
> to indicate which direction they should go..........    { This wasn't the
> guy I met at a gas station in DFW who said his brother in law had an early
> Pantera with an Oldsmobile engine in it----"they all had Oldsmobile
> engines." ??}     Oh, boy....
>
>
>                                Arrows?   We don't need no stinkin' arrows!,
> Chuck Engles
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <JJD1010 at aol.com>
> To: <detomaso at realbig.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 5:54 PM
> Subject: [DeTomaso] Original half axle question
>
>
>> While shooting the S*** with another owner here in town, he said the
>> original half shafts had a red arrow on them to indicate which direction
>> they  should
>> go, ie, the arrow points outward. I couldn't remember ever seeing that.
>> Does
>> anyone know for sure?
>>
>> Also the small shaft goes on the outside, right? and there is a reason for
>> this, right?
>>
>> Jeff ( I have to keep relearning this kind of stuff! )
>> 6559
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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