An underbody heat shield is too short to protect a nearby
half-shaft grease boot.
However once again his involvement ended on stage two - this time because of a broken
half-shaft.
"With the F-150 SVT Raptor, we changed the axle, the whole front suspension is different -- new upper A arm, new lower A arm, new tie rod, new
half-shaft joints," said Jamal Hameedi, Ford SVT chief engineer.
Of course, there are still more traditional requirements, such as handling the high torque requirements of drive train applications (e.g., ring gears, flywheels,
half-shaft differentials), where dowel pins and locating sleeves are traditionally used.
If a gearbox stripped or a
half-shaft broke there was no way the brakes would hold.
Each of the thousands of output axle shafts machined by a major automotive supplier in Detroit has at least six mounting holes, permitting the
half-shaft to be bolted securely to the flange.
Look in the back of the Autotrader or Exchange & Mart and you should be able to turn up a
half-shaft for as little as a tenner.
Also of interest are
half-shaft testers developed by Veri-Tek.
COVENTRY BEES might now have been Elite League Speedway Champions but for politics over a staging date - and Andrew Smith might have been Stock Car World Champion but for a broken
half-shaft when way ahead of the rest of the field.