<VV> Dummy Drivetrain Advice for Transport

[George Jones]

Darrin,

I'm assuming you're talking about a late model car (you impressed me as
being a smart guy). You don't need the Differential case to hold the lower
struts in place, you could use one of the Crown Lower Control Brackets that
Clark's sells. This should be enough to get the car on a trailer, but you
need to discuss this with the shipping company as well. Most will charge
significantly more if they cannot drive the car onto the trailer.

As far as connecting the half shafts goes, I would be tempted to take one
half shaft, cut the tube out of the center of it, fabricate a two piece
aluminum pipe with flanges to bolt the yoke's on. mount the yokes on the
car, slide the two pieces together and put a bolt through them.

On 8/15/07, Darrin Hartzler <dhartzler at ifc.org> wrote:
>
> I am buying a car that is several states away and the current owner wants
> to pull the drivetrain before selling the car.  He does not have a dummy
> drivetrain available to install in the car so that a shipping company
> could collect the car (which is eseentially a shell) and bring it to me
> here in Maryland.   He has offered to have the person who pulls the
> drivetrain install whatever device or combination of parts that I can come
> up with that will fill the bill.  Discussed ideas with Tim Mahler and he
> had a few...wanted to see what the experience here is.
>
> I do have an empty differential case that I could ship to the seller for
> his mechanic to attach the lower control arms to for shipping, but I do
> not know if a case by itself, without the support of a transmission
> connected to the front crossbar, would be sufficient.   It would have to
> be wired in place and would likely be a much for an average shipping
> company to deal with.   Please let me know if any of you have used just a
> diff. case in such a situation and if there were any negatives.   I am
> woried that if it is wired up to the cowl area any violence in shipping
> would cause damage to the cowl area which is currently pristine.
>
> Any other ideas of ways to dummy up a drivetrain or make a car without a
> powerpak suitable for shipping would be appreciated.   Please keep in mind
> that whatever I come up with has to be shipped 600 miles, so weight is
> also a concern....if it were not I would just ship a whole drivetrain out
> to him.  Tim had a cut half shaft with a bar welded to make it the right
> length to span between the two wheels.   I could do something like that
> but it would be heavy and oversized to ship...not ideal.
>
> Final option, if anybody in the Springfield, Ill. area has a dummy
> drivetrain or even a real drivetrain that they would let go for a good
> price, that could be an option if I could figure out how to get it to the
> right place at the right time.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Darrin Hartzler
> Bethesda, MD
> Corsa/No. Virginia Corvairs
>
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