Last year I posted that I was experiencing some sort of clanking when I shifted from low to hi but also went away after you got into hi and running at speed. The noise is also heard when you rev out low too or step on the brake when going round a corner or turning around. Some thought it was a rear axle problem although it sounded very much like it was coming from directly below the floor boards. One fellow said he'd experienced the same thing and found that it was the bushing behind the U joint had somehow gone oval so the shaft was flopping around and only smoothed out when it ran at speed.
Things being what they are, I didn't get round to really looking into this until now. I climbed under the car to take a look and see if I could fathom what the hell was going on and then I noticed this.
You see that small looking flange sticking out of the side of my spool? That's the gasket spacer and it is sticking out most there so I thought that somehow the bloody thing got slipped out....but then I got to looking at the spool itself.
And it doesn't look to me like that spool is fitting properly on the axle housing. Has anybody every seen one of these slip on the housing? Because I think that this may indeed be my problem, the drive shaft has canted 10 degrees off center of the rear axle. My next question how is that possible or is it even possible? Do I have the wrong spool? My car is a early 1922 and I don't ever remember it looking like that after my last transmission overhaul.
You think I can just loosen the bolts some and "kick" it back into place or am I going to have to do something more serious, like rip the entire drive train apart and rebuild it?
