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Re: GT6 1/2 Shafts

To: billbartlett@homerebuilders.com, Spitlist@gte.net, fot@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: GT6 1/2 Shafts
From: "andrew stark" <whitedog72@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 14:01:45 +0000
Contact Steve Smith. This sounds like the set up he made for me. His work is 
superb. I bet he can help you.
                                                                             
                   Andy Stark
                                                                             
              72 EP-Gt-6






>From: "Bill Bartlett" <billbartlett@homerebuilders.com>
>Reply-To: "Bill Bartlett" <billbartlett@homerebuilders.com>
>To: "Joe Curry" <Spitlist@gte.net>,   "Friends of Triumph"  
><fot@autox.team.net>
>Subject: GT6 1/2 Shafts
>Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 20:33:26 -0400
>
>Hello fellow FOT'rs
>
>I have been trying for the last few weeks to have a local driveline shop 
>refabricate the custom 1/2 shafts that came on my GT6+ without success. 
>These are custom because the car has been modified to improve the weak 
>hub/axle assembly by upgrading it to Datsun 240x stub axle and drive 
>flange. The 1/2 shafts are mostly Datsun except that the inboard Ujoin t is 
>a hybred to fit the Datsun drive shaft and the GT6 Differential. The GT6 
>flange is a small one requireing a small U-joint Tee. The Datsun flange is 
>larger and the joint cups swim in the flange. Aparently the manufacturer 
>that made the hybrid U-joint tees and flanges is out of business, so I am 
>rather stuck. Anythoughts?
>
>Is there a driveline shop that can make custom u-joints?
>
>
>
>Should I be considering cv joints? I have never run a car with these and I 
>hear that they are rather bulky?
>
>
>
>Any better solutions? Joe? Steve?
>
>
>
>Thank you for your help
>
>Bill


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