Broken Differential Shaft??

[Dale Finch]

Has anyone experienced or seen a broken Differential Shaft (left side)?

Here at the LA Cubfest, they found that was the problem with the left final...

[ricky racer]

I worked with a guy who's Cub had broken the differential shaft. I don't recall what side it was though. It seems to me I've read of other accounts on this site of them breaking.

[Jim Becker]

John Puckett discovered that it is pretty easy to break that shaft if you have a Howard speed reducer:
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=10138&p=67605

[ricky racer]

Those Cubs are just way to powerful for a mere steel axle shaft!!

[tst]

seen several RS broke

[Dale Finch]

Thanks, Jim!!

[Eugene]

Broken axles, usually a fault during the manufacturing process such as heat treating or improper composition of the steel.

Broken axles use to be a common event with the 1950 era Fords that I drove.

[radioguy41]

Broken axles, usually a fault during the manufacturing process such as heat treating or improper composition of the steel.

Broken axles use to be a common event with the 1950 era Fords that I drove.

I was thinking the same thing. If you were careful you could take a long wire, make a small loop on one end, and fish the broken end of the axle out of the punkin thru the housing. I always carried wire and a spare axle or two in the trunk.