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Re: 1500 in a Mk III????

To: james.carpenter@ukaea.org.uk, jim.gambony@eds.com
Subject: Re: 1500 in a Mk III????
From: Cwn74@aol.com
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 09:03:31 EDT
In a message dated 98-06-30 03:23:05 EDT, james.carpenter@ukaea.org.uk writes:

> THe clutch driven plate has less spleens on it.  What you may be better
>  with is a Spitfire 1500 clutch and clutch driven plate.  Then just
>  chainge the input shaft on the gearbox.  Unless you can look round for a
>  1500 sized clutch driven plate with the number of spleens that the 1300
>  has.  
>  -- 
They're called splines.
You can't change the input shaft if it's a fine spline clutch plate, just get
a clutch plate for a 1500 up thru 1974, same spline setup.     Everything else
should work fine.

I put a 1972 1300 (similar block, etc. as the 1500) in a MkIII once, nothing
to change there. 

Clark

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