[Fot] TR Drive Shaft

[Kas Kastner]

The first time you need to pull the tranny and that sliding spline is not 
there, you will wish it was.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "robert bownes" <bownes at seiri.com>
To: "Randall" <tr3driver at ca.rr.com>
Cc: "FOT" <fot at autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Fot] TR Drive Shaft


> Well, if you did it with just a short sliding spline on one end it might 
> not
> be so hard. Some of the amurican cars do that iirc. But it's been a long
> time since I was under a Camaro.
>
> iii
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Randall <tr3driver at ca.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> > I'm thinking of making up a fixed lenth shaft without the sliding
>> > pline. With the diff fixed i see no reason to have the spline .
>>
>> Just my uninformed opinion, but it seems to me that the transmission and
>> differential both move on their mounts enough to matter, not to mention 
>> the
>> frame itself flexing.  Transmitting all that force to ball bearings not
>> designed for side loading seems like a bad idea to me.
>>
>> But YMMV and all that.  Might be OK for a race car that only has to last 
>> a
>> few hundred miles.
>>
>> Randall
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