[Spridgets] wire wheel rear end conversion

[Dean Hedin]

I was thinking about this "wire wheel short axle issue" further today.

I have never seen the case where just the splines sheered off of a Spridget axle.

By that I mean it's not the case where you pull the axle out and just the splines have striped 
off the outer perimeter.

The ones I have seen  that broke (and these were early axles only) 
had the whole splined section broke off and stuck in the diff.

So, When we say that we are worried that we have 1/2" less purchase of the spline within
the differential we are implying that striping the splines off is what may happen.

But I don't think that's going to happen.

For the proper case, the splines appear to have about 1 and 1/2 inch purchase within the diff.

I don't think that 1/2 inch less is going to matter when you switch over to the wire axles.

Maybe it's not the best for some highly tuned 1275+ engine.  But if that's the case you probably
don't want to run wires wheels anyway.

If anyone has seen the case where just the splines have sheered off I would be interested.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: WeslakeMonza1330 at aol.com 
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] wire wheel rear end conversion


Quaife will do them.