[Land-speed] Engine Coupler

[Ed Weldon]

Skip -- 
See my previous email.  Baldor-Dodge makes these; pretty old product.  You
still may want to follow up with Steen on how loose he made them to
accomodate the misalignment of the two shafts that you get in an automotive
chassis.
http://www.dodge-pt.com/products/pt_components/couplings/chain_coupling.html
Neat part is that you can use intechangeable Dodge taperlock hubs that make
it easier to adapt the main coupling to the shafts on each side.  The inner
bushing and the way it connects to the main coupling parts shows in the pic
on that link.
Ed Weldon

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bernie brown" <bernien2 at swbell.net>
To: <land-speed at autox.team.net>; "Skip Higginbotham" <Saltrat at pahrump.com>
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Engine Coupler

> Skip, What Steen had was a hub that took a chain, another bolted to the
> flywheel on the engine ahead. You rolled the engines so that the two
> sprockets lined up and wrapped a double link chain around and installed
the
> masterlink. the front pair of engines were coupled to a gearbox as were
the
> rears in the center of the car.  Clutch on front and rear ends of the 4X
> stack. Roy built all of it including the diffs at each end. He prob has
some
> spares, or could build you a couple(pun). Bernie