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Re: Engine backing plate

To: "spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Engine backing plate
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 08:01:31 -0000
References: <200012171544_MC2-BEEE-FCBA@compuserve.com>
----- Original Message -----
From Paul A. Asgeirsson <PAsgeirsson at compuserve.com>
To: Patton Dickson <kpatton@telocity.com>


> Now when you put a ribcase on an engine, any size, with a stamped steel
> plate, the input shaft of the ribcase protrudes furthur out the front of
> the gearbox than on the smooth case, and with the thin plate on the engine
> will sometimes make the input shaft bottom out in the end of the
> crankshaft.


WOW!

This demands a rethink on my part.  The pressed steel plate I used on a
2-inch 1098 was the same thickness.............or was it????

You've got me thinking 'cos the gears work fine with the 1275 box.  Can't be
more than 5mm difference, can there?

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