For any of you who have followed my recent posts, it may not be a surprise that I now have an extra rear end, which probably has a lot of life left in it (original to my 1982 245, 260K, 3.54:1). If I find someone who wants to give it a new home, that would be all to the good. But, of course, that may not happen. Unless or until it does, though, this also means I have an extra pair of axle shafts.

When I was first planning to replace my axle shaft bearings about two years ago, I very much wanted to limit my car's downtime during the repair. I eventually left the car up in the air for the two days it took me to get the bearings pressed onto the axle shafts. But before I started, I actually considered picking up a pair of shafts from the boneyard, pressing the new parts onto them, then swapping the whole "new" shafts for the originals. My solo impersonation of a quick-change pit crew.

I could have completed my repair within a much smaller window of downtime, had there been available to me a good pair of "loaner" axle shafts for that purpose. Others taking on this repair may also need to limit their downtime, or may have no transportation--other than the car they are repairing--with which to get the shafts to the shop. (It does take a shop with a large and powerful hydraulic press to remove and replace the axle bearings and seals, and the shop may not offer while-you-wait service.)

Well, now I have that extra pair of axle shafts. If any of you Brickboarders would like to use them for the "loaner" purpose I describe above (press new parts onto my shafts, install mine in place of yours, give me yours), you are welcome to them. While the bearings on them are definitely not new, these shafts are good, with all the lugs intact and clean and the "hub-cap gripper" ring in good shape. Presuming that they might get passed along again, if you'd like to use them, I would ask only for some assurance that the shafts later returned be in the same serviceable condition as these.

The rear end and the shafts are in northwest Houston, but I'm back and forth between Austin and San Antonio quite a bit.

Let me know!