[DeTomaso] Pantera near disaster

[JDeRyke at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/21/10 9:22:15 PM, kenn_green at yahoo.com writes:

> The original design does not lose a wheel if a half shaft breaks, it 
> loses a wheel if an axle breaks, which does not happen with a modern hub and 
> bearing assembly. 
>  
> Ken
> 
True; you can pull both halfshafts and roll a Pantera around a shop or even 
push it into a trailer. The kind of ends installed on a halfshaft are 
irrelevant to your problem. I helped load a basket-case Mangusta on a trailer 
without the engine, ZF or halfshafts in place.The Goose and Pantera have the 
same basic double-a-arm layout of IRS.   Other cars that do not use an upper 
rear a-arm, do use the halfshafts as a suspension link but those cars don't 
have (or need) a slip-joint in the middle of the halfshafts either. The 
outboard stub axles are a whole different subject. FWIW- J DeRyke