Boom #2, the driveshaft lets go

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So the gutted 10-bolt housing goes to bud Perry Kincy for use in his road race 3rd gen, and I get a KTRE 12-bolt (I'm working on a related story).  The new rear seems fairly bulletproof, but the car doesn't hook up very well, and the stock torque arm is limiting ground clearance of the new dual-cat y-pipe for the Hooker long tube headers. 

Time for a new torque arm and LCA drop brackets.  I pick the chrome-moly BMR with a poly bushing (another related story) and the Global West LCA brackets.   The combo works (another racer sez I pulled the wheels), the car hooks well, and proceeds to blow the front yoke and u-joint apart.  Boom #2, and another tow truck ride.  Many thanks to Dave Mills for the tow assist and loaner driveshaft.

Note the twisted splines in the yoke pic (click on the thumbnail for a closer look).  We had to get creative with a stock Camaro scissors jack, some wood blocks, and a breaker bar to push the yoke off the tranny tailshaft.  More thanks to the resourceful Dave Mills for the idea, the weapons of choice, and help with the execution.  It worked!  The 1LE driveshaft actually survived pretty well.  It appears the tranny input yoke or u-joint let go first, which broke one side of the 1LE driveshaft yoke.  The rest of the 'shaft is fine.

Fall '00 update:  Well, I finally looked at the dead 1LE 'shaft a little more closely.  Turns out it didn't survive all that well.  Check out the pic below right.  Those u-joints are supposed to be lined up!