[Fot] TR Drive Shaft

[Geoff Byrne]

Thanks Kas
Wise comment
you've changed my mind about doing away with the spline
Geoff
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kas Kastner" <kaskas at cox.net>
To: "robert bownes" <bownes at seiri.com>; "Randall" <tr3driver at ca.rr.com>
Cc: "FOT" <fot at autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 7:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Fot] TR Drive Shaft


> 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
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html
>>>
>>> http://www.fot-racing.com
>>>
>>> Fot mailing list
>>> Fot at autox.team.net
>>> http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/fot
>> _______________________________________________
>> Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html
>>
>> http://www.fot-racing.com
>>
>> Fot mailing list
>> Fot at autox.team.net
>> http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/fot
> _______________________________________________
> Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html
>
> http://www.fot-racing.com
>
> Fot mailing list
> Fot at autox.team.net
> http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/fot