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Re: spridget axle shafts

To: "Jeff Boatright" <jboatri@emory.edu>, "Bryan Vandiver" <Bryan.Vandiver@Eng.Sun.COM>
Subject: Re: spridget axle shafts
From: "Mike Gigante" <mikeg@vicnet.net.au>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 09:40:05 +1000
Cc: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
References: <l03130306b43ba64b45d4@[163.246.48.154]>
Reply-to: "Mike Gigante" <mikeg@vicnet.net.au>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Except that the wire wheel half shafts are about an inch shorter
than the steel wheel half shafts, not 1/8" longer.

They also have the pressed on flange/splines whereas the steel wheel
half shaft is a single forged unit.

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff Boatright <jboatri@emory.edu>
To: Bryan Vandiver <Bryan.Vandiver@Eng.Sun.COM>
Cc: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, 27 October 1999 4:43
Subject: Re: spridget axle shafts


> The half shafts for steel wheels are longer than those for wire wheels (or
> is it the other way around?). As for compatibility, there may be a concern
> that fitting a shorter shaft to a longer axle housing would result in less
> of the shaft spline being engaged in the differential, thus transmitting
> more stress to the splines. However, at least one lister has had this set
> up for some time with no problems.
>
> At 2:26 PM -0400 10/26/99, Bryan Vandiver wrote:
> > While I was cleaning out and organizing all my extra sprite parts, I was
> >looking
> > over three extra rear axle half-shafts that I have. I noticed that one
> >shaft is
> > ~1/8 inch longer than the other two, as well as some other subtle
> >differences.
> >
> > Are all spridget shafts compatible??
> > Are there 'left' and 'right' shafts??
> >
> ..
>
>
>
> Jeffrey H. Boatright, PhD
> Senior Editor, Molecular Vision
> http://www.molvis.org/molvis
> Mailto:jboatri@emory.edu
> 404-778-4113
>
>
>
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