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cautionary tale
Hi,
I dropped the rear axle out of my Duetto yesterday...literally. I wasn't under the car when it happened, but did get my 3rd finger between the brake rotor shield and garage floor. Got x-rayed this morning and it wasn't broken, just real bruised and sore. I had been unable to loosen the trunion to axle nut, and was lowering the axle with trunion disconnected at the body instead. Everything else was disassemmbled. When I wiggled the assembly out it rolled backwards off the garage jack onto the floor upside down. My hand had been on top of the rotor guard, and rotated around with the axle to end up under it. In retrospect it seems logical that the center of gravity is pretty close to the axle tubes, and not the flat part of the differential wher the jack was. I guess it could have been a lot worse... Can anyone who has done the rear axle R&R offer some advise? Should I have left the limit straps attached until everything else was disconnected?
Thanks,
Mike
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