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[Michael G.]

You guys will love this: Took my blue 63 to Pennsylvania to PV at the regional at Altoona. The rain began before road test. After waiting few hours, we barely found a break in the rain to road test it, so I had to drive on wet roads. Car passed, but it got a bit dirty on the underside. We loaded it on the trailer and towed it home to Michigan the next day.

When we got home, I drove it off of the trailer, straight into my building, and put it on the lift, to clean the underside. Cleaned it, set it down, and left it on the lift.

Fast-forward several weeks... I started it up to go for a ride. I put it in reverse and immediately the differential seized, while still on the lift. It didn't move an inch. The car had probably rolled 200 feet since passing PV and the differential was inoperable....whew!!!

This week I got around to disassembling the rear suspension (which was not all that inconvenient, since it was still on the lift) and took the diff to be checked out. The guy working on the differential says a pin fell out, that if it had been moving when the pin fell out, the diff would've been so much shrapnel...just lucky, I guess

[Don H.]

Re: Post PV

Michael, Congrats on the PV, not an easy feat. You must be living right is all I can say about the differential problem. Don H.

[Michael G.]

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Thanks Don. That's the second time I've had a problem after towing the car long distance. She doesn't seem to like being a trailer queen. Maybe I'll drive her to Nationals next Summer.

In any case, looks like she'll'll spend her fiftieth birthday on Wednesday up on the hoist....