LM Axle Question

[Rotary FP46]

Between the different model years, body styles, transmissions, and related performance mods, was there any variation among LM rear axles? I've found three crates of the things so far tonight. Not sure whether there is any finer detail to be mindful of during the sort.

[Vairone]

All the LM car rear axles are the same, 1965-69.

[Lane66Monza]

The only difference you may find on USED axle drive shafts is the universal joint. Some aftermarket u-joints installed by unknown persons may have used a one with a fitting for a grease gun.

[jimbrandberg]

Not much seems to go wrong with them except getting scored by a low hanging heater hose.

[66vairguy]

Not much seems to go wrong with them except getting scored by a low hanging heater hose.

I always wondered about reports of the heater hose wire cutting into a shaft, THEN I found a worn shaft on a car. AMAZINGLY the metal was worn down about 1/16" were the hose rubbed on the tube!!! That hose wire must be hard!!!

[Frank DuVal]

It is extremely hard steel. Just ask me about the time we were having a tech session in my garage and a club member grabbed my GOOD dikes to shorten a heater hose while I was not looking and put a dent in them! I have special cutter for those wires, looks like miniature bolt cutters. In fact they are called mini bolt cutters.

I've seen the early axles also cut into by the heater hose wire. I've also seen LM axles rusted in two, but not on cars in use....

I also have seen axles which had the ears bent when u-joints were installed/removed and put the joint into a bind. Usually a slight bind can be fixed with BFH applied correctly. This applies to long driveshafts also.

[Wagon Master]

Not sure if it's wire or cable, but isn't that how they cut ships into pieces for scrap?

[Torskdoc423]

Wagonmaster;

Lot's of Oxy-Acetylene torches for ship breaking and scrapping. We had a Sub tender in Baltimore (Orion AS-11) was scrapped at the old Beth Steel shipyard. Took them a little over 4 months round the clock from the mast to the stern tube. Nuclear ships and submarines scrapped in yard have their reactor compartments cut out a foot from the bulkhead, then a solid steel blank is welded to the ends. Then hauled out of drydock and transported to Hanford Washington for burial. The rest of the boat/ship is then cut in the drydock in chunks and further dismantled on ground. With regard to sunken vessels being scrapped with damaged hull structure that must be removed prior to raising, Kursk for example had the bow cut off with Anchor chains rove back and forth by cranes on the surface.

[Lane66Monza]

The ship hauling autos that grounded in Brunswick GA was cutup using chains. There was a good series (Deep Water Salvage) on Weather Channel, as it was done. Very interesting.

Removal of Golden Ray cargo ship off Georgia coast Google this and see all the info on it.

https://weather.com/news/news/2020-12-0 ... ars-photos