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64/65 A-body Owners
64/65 A-body Owners:
My 64 f-85 is back on the road after a 6 week hiatus on jack stands. As
you may recall, the right rear axle bearing seized and ran down the bear
journal on the axle, thus ruining the axle. After finding 2 other axles
out of the only other 1964 and 1965 Olds that I've been able to find in N. GA (at
least that had a rearend), and seeing that they both had the same problem,
I took one of my bad axles to a machine shop and paid $90 for a journal
repair and bearing install. Fixed, no problem (high price, I know, but when
there is only one machine shop in town that will do it, and he knows it).
BEWARE. I pulled a 1966 Tempest axle and it had the same problem. Watch
those rear bearings. This was a premature failure, as this bearing had
no more that 40k miles on it when it siezed (it was a high quality bearing,
too).
1964 and 1965 Olds owners: Olds axles are interchangable with 64/65 Buick
A-bodies (and that's it!)
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