Please excuse this question if it is a bit off topic but I figure this is the best place to get an answer that I can understand. What effect do the number of splines have on the performance of a shaf
A larger number of fine splines has more surface area thus more strength than a smaller number of coarser splines. Also coarse splines are cut deeper which reduces the shaft cross section & strength
My speculation is that the clutch Morgan had available had 10 splines while the transmission they chose to use with it had 15 splines so they used this shaft to convert from one to the other? Just a
I have always wondered why there are so many and therefore such shallow splines on a whire wheel. The fact that they wear out so quickly seems to be an indication of a major design flaw at least in
IMO they wear out quickly because they are not properly maintained, the design flaw is only that they require some care in maintenance and tightening. If the knockoff is kept properly tightened (whi
Hmmmm.... Prudence tells me not to disagree with Randall... but here goes :-) Maybe I don't know what spines are. I thought that thing-a-ma-bob on a drive shaft was a spline. Most I've seen aren't ve
Author: "Larry list account" <list@marketvalue.net>
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 15:13:08 -0600
They are in newer cars. The more splines the more surface area. The more surface area the less likely things will slip. A good example of spline technology is seen in automobile axle applications. M
Basically because there's no need for more strength in that application, and it costs money to make splines. Wire wheel splines are also more sensitive to the sort of wear that would result from con
Okay, gotta ask a question...doesnt' the amount of torque applied to the splined shaft (either wheel or trans) make a difference? Seems to me that the larger splines would handle larger torque loads
Think about it for a minute. The torque at the driveshaft is multiplied by the ring & pinion ratio as it is transfered to the wheels. Axle & wheel torque is about three to four times the torque on th
Wait a minute, the engine only puts out XXX lb/ft of torque, I don't quite see how it can be increased through the driveline. This is getting way to deep for me. Safety Fast! Gordie Bird 62 MGA 67 BG
Okay, I see now, maybe it isthe other way around, the many smaller splines can handle more torque than the larger fewer splines? Safety Fast! Gordie Bird 62 MGA 67 BGT
The miracle of gear ratios : speed times torque remains nearly constant, so if a gear train reduces the rpm, it increases the torque by the same ratio. Surely you've noticed how much harder your car
Eeek! Remind me not to work on the same codebase as you! Writing software that works once is something any kid can do. Writing software that will work in the real world, be maintained, be changed, a
My only point is that software does wear out with use. It remains the same regardless of how often it is used. That is not true in Automotive Engineering. Even the best automotive engineering soluti
Well, I guess we've taken this one around the block. My original point was that it seems to me that if wire wheel splines had fewer splines and were more like the construction of the splines on a dri
Let's try to get this discussion back to engineering. I am not an engineer but offer this quote from "Machinery's Handbook", 11th ed. (1942), p568: "Torque Capacity of Spline Fittings: The torque cap
I don't think that you could be more wrong. The splines carry all of the torque. The inner & outer cones only keep the wheel centered. The cones could only drive by friction. The cones & splines def
Is there any mention of the aspect ratio of the spline. Are they assumed to be square: height == width? I have never owned/driven a car with wire wheels. My experience is limmited to two MGB parts c
The article says that wire wheels are naturally tightened the correct amount by simply driving forward. I have often heard that one should not tow a car with wire wheels backwards, or the wire wheel