R36 lucky to still have a tail shaft attached!

[Vee]

So I moved about a year ago and discovered on settlement day that the R36 bottoms out coming into the driveway from the street.

The drive is quite a steep downhill and the entrance from the street comes up so I have a bit of a hump to negotiate. Even my wife's stock as a rock Holden Cruze scrapes if we are both in it. If I reverse the R36 in on a 45 and don't have any passengers, most of the time, it doesn't scrape.

I assumed it was the exhaust scraping and didn't worry about it too much. This morning it scraped particularly badly and I saw half a bolt get left behind. I had previously found half a bolt in a similar position but wasn't sure where it had came from.

So I investigate and find that the carrier bearing for the tailshaft has 2 sheared bolts and one bent as ****, leaving only one good bolt keeping it secure





I cbf'd with an easy out so I rang the good people at volkewrke who squeezed me in on what was already a flat chat day before a long weekend. The kids and I went over to Doncaster shops and had some lunch while the boys extracted the 2 broken bolts and replaced the lot with new high tensile bolts with lower profile heads. Love their work!

[Polo GTEye N9]

So the moral of the story is caveat emptor
ˌkavɪat ˈɛmptɔː/
noun
noun: caveat emptor

the principle that the buyer alone is responsible for checking the quality and suitability of goods before a purchase is made.
"caveat emptor still applies when you are buying your house"

[Kachingg]

Damn that sucks lucky you found out before a big expensive bill

Volksworks are terrific i have used them and am most impressed

[ian]

Time to get a bridge made up .out of checker plate

[Vee]

Ramp over is the issue not approach or departure angle. Not much I can do about it unfortunately besides kick the Mrs out at the top of the driveway....