Michael,
A few years ago we had to do this very same thing. The best way to go
about this is to turn the shaft yourself, leaving the section to be
splined at the major diameter (given on the Polaris site), then have a
local machine shop cut the splines for you. If you ask around, I'm
sure you will be able to find a shop, and hopefully they will even do
it for free. I believe that cutting splines requires special
equipment that would not be worth purchasing for a couple of shafts.
Worst case, you can always send it out to get the splines cut, this
would still be cheaper than buying the tools and dealing with trying
to do it yourself. Another option, depending on what your shaft needs
to look like, would be to buy an input shaft from a Polaris gearbox
and just use that (probably with some modification). Hope this helps,
and good luck with your car.
Justin
University at Buffalo Mini-Baja
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Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 6:39 PM
To: mini-baja@autox.team.net
Subject: Splines
Hi all! I am with Cornell's Mini Baja team and we are planning to run
a Polaris P-90 CVT. The driven pulley is splined and we need to
manufacture a shaft with the correct spline to attach it to. None of
us really have any experience with splining and we were wondering if
anyone has any advice for us. Especially we were wondering if any of
the teams who have used the P-90 before know any good companies to
purchase the tools needed to make such a spline? Thank you and really
any advice is much appreciated.
-Michael
P.S. the exact specifications for the spline we need can be found here
http://www.polarissuppliers.com/sae_team/spline.htm
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