……….Well, maybe it was me a little………but alote IS going on!
got in a pair of split shafts and knuckles to service. Found one knuckle and hub on one side out of tolerance. 
The fresh knuckle you see has been spray welded and turned back down to tolerance. Here’s the drive shafts rebuild with one knuckle ready to ship.
…… Here’s the hub I was explaining needs replacement, we know this because one bearing set has come off the hub easily while the second is still pressed in place
They were greased well and the seals were holding…..it’s just the case that the inner bearing loaded to the point it spun and reduced the diameter of the hub………hey, it happens over time and time is one of our hidden enemies.
The hub and knuckle both will be replaced because of this wear. Some might say this is a sign of a weak assembly…….dude, there’s no president of any vehicle to last this long being expected to do its job perfect! Compared to how old and maybe how many miles that it’s been driven its right to find a few components worn……the entire coach is living past its intended life span….by 4 times!
If your front hubs are loose….add to your investment in fun and have them attended to. They will not get better…….
This is a survey, please give me your thoughts: All of you must know by now our project almost always end up being fitted with our single aluminum fuel tank. Hey but we live in America and we are all free to see things the way we like. We all know our steel 25 gallon fuel tanks are susceptible to rust using Ethanol laced fuels. We all must have a fuel container on board that won’t kill us.
As you saw here recently, Abbey Normal made a great tank shaker to get all the flack out of our aluminum manufactured tanks
This would also be a valuable way to epoxy line original fuel tanks which rely on a thorough sloshing of the sealing compounds to cover all surfaces in the tank
SO……..heres the survey question…..Do you feel there is a need to refurbish original steel fuel tanks properly? Please let me know your thoughts.
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Note to come later……….. See ya then
Comes down to a cost/benefit analysis. The new aluminum tanks have demonstrated benefits. But at what cost over and above refurbishing original tanks?
Yes, for the CPA that may be a question, add to that how long the fix will last. These are “keeper” machines. I can give you no longevity reports on epoxy coatings. Actually though, check around….its not that much more costly. Again thanks for asking the elephant in the room question…..
No bite the bullet and put in a new tank
Hey man…..yep , they are falling apart @ now….if not now…..soon
If we needed tanks coated or a new tank I’d go for a new aluminum tank. I read lot of problems with coated which your aluminum tank wouldn’t have. Enjoying the stuff you have Abbey doing. Please keep posting.
Thanks for the comment and I do agree that lining tanks is an ultimate “bandaid” in my mind. It’s a pretty simple process of which cleaning and coverage is the most important. But hey, we live in America and if that’s what someone wants I can help. We just need to keep these things going
My tanks were cleaned years ago. I have a filter at the tank and the carbuerator filter. 15 years and no trouble. I guess I’m lucky.
Luck maybe some but for whatever reason, rust has not started. Once rust begins it’s hard to stop and it takes iver!
My PO replaced both tanks with shiny new steel ones. Probably good for another 30 years. I dropped them both to change the sender gaskets and all fuel lines. Aluminum tanks are not in my future.
Thanks for the comment …..yes, in your situatio, something was done to replace the originals. That’s where many other folks are now. If an aluminum tank doesn’t look to be in the plans, my thought was with a shaking machine like Abbey can be programmed to be that we would provide a service to coat the insides of original tanks for those that want that. It’s difficult to find someone and expensive to line tanks. The key to it is to properly slosh the coating material enough to get solid coverage. Brother, Abbey can do that! I’d like to offer 2 viable, professional alternatives for fuel containment for our classic coaches…..THAT’S My question. Thanks again for raising the question