Quick Release Drive Shaft

traveylin wrote:
Well Grumpy, when you get around to defining the term, right one, for the rv'ing population, I may let you use the term silly. The remco shaft disconnect is a spline collar to engage only when the shaft is not turning from the transmission. Grinding the splines is a gross miss operation and sure to destroy the unit. As there are two alignment tabs, putting the vehicle in neutral with engine off, and rocking the vehicle rotates the rear drive to proper engagement position. If it is an auto transmission my particular vehicle would rotate the drive shaft while in neutral disconnected and engine running resulting in spline clash when trying to engage.

strange, the instructions for mine (as best as I can remember after all these years) were to stop, turn off the engine and as the drive shaft was coming to a halt, "ease" the two parts, one stationary, one rotating, together. If those instructions have changed please quote them. and I suggest that somebody considering getting one of these, have somebody volunteer to let you disengage, engage it and see if they still think it is a good idea. and when you are driving and you start hearing a ping, ping, ping, get ready for an uncontrolled disengagement.
my BIL had one and swore by it but he was willing to crawl under the toad periodically and clean and grease it.

how do you assure that the splines are perfectly aligned if all is stationary when you engage them?
bumpy