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1963 Rambler classic drive shaft splines cracked!

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Originally posted by Wrambler Wrambler wrote:

I have two 65 TT rears, one is out of the car and I intend to do exploratory to see what is going on and if it is useable whole or for parts.

They changed that propeller shaft in 65, but the piece you have that is stripped out and shattered should be fine and I'd expect any decent axle/machine shop to be able to swap that piece.

If you are interested I can dig it out and check it out. 

are you saying like have a machine ship fab me a new drive shaft? because in the 63 classic with torque tube its just 1 solid steel shaft, i dont think it can be fixed.
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Any axle shop capable of making a splined shaft can make a new one -- if they have an axle shaft long enough. You have to have the center carrier bearing on the shaft, shich might make it a bit harder to make, but it can be done. I bet you can find a used one cheaper though, even after shipping.

I don't think the V-8 or 232 shaft will work. Those used the AMC 20, and I think the pinion shaft is larger in diameter (and spline count) than the AMC 15 pinion shaft. I believe you need a 63-64 196 shaft. I have one if you need it, don't know what shipping would be.
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Well, He could just come get the whole deal out of the convertible, but I doubt it would have anything higher than a 3:15 gear set and the extra weight and hp required to run the 20, plus brakes would make it an extreme effort in futility.

What I was offering was to cut the rear splined chunk off the shaft and you could have it welded on to your toasted one, but as frank pointed out you need one for an AMC 15 and that I do not have.

Unless AMC was insane enough to use the same spline...it sure looks familiar in your pics. If you have deminsions I could look, but get the one from Frank and be done with it. It should be pretty cheap to ship, just drop it into a piece of PVC with end caps and ship.
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It is different, that's probably why I thought it was an axle. There is a higher spline count on the V8
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Originally posted by farna farna wrote:

Any axle shop capable of making a splined shaft can make a new one -- if they have an axle shaft long enough. You have to have the center carrier bearing on the shaft, shich might make it a bit harder to make, but it can be done. I bet you can find a used one cheaper though, even after shipping.

I don't think the V-8 or 232 shaft will work. Those used the AMC 20, and I think the pinion shaft is larger in diameter (and spline count) than the AMC 15 pinion shaft. I believe you need a 63-64 196 shaft. I have one if you need it, don't know what shipping would be.

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