On Mon, 24 May 1999 HMENTZEN@aol.com wrote:
> What a way to start the day! Going to work this morning the car (79 Spit)
> started to clunk...put the car up on jacks and found that the
> axle flange & u-joint were destroyed. I have taken it all apart and am now
> wondering how to remove the axle flange from the axle. Is there a pin driven
> trough the axle?....
Hans, what you're asking is indeed doable...sort of. Flanges are easy
enough to come by. A donor flange can come from any 1971 or later
Spitfire axle or driveshaft, or pretty much any GT6 axle or driveshaft.
The donor yoke for the end of the axle can come from ANY Spitfire or
Herald axle.
Now for the tough part. To get this apart, first you need to remove that
pin. It's only a "roll pin" as I recall, so that's not a big deal (drill
it out, or maybe drift it out?). But to remove the yoke from the axle is
going to require lots and lots of serious heat and AT LEAST a 12-ton
hydraulic press. IF (potentially Big IF) you do get the bad one off, you
still need to come up with a replacement. I don't know if these can be
bought from any of the usual suspects, er, vendors, so you'd probably
need to rescue one from an otherwise damaged (bent or bearing-damaged)
axle shaft. Again here, any yoke from any year Spitfire axle shaft will
do, IF you can get it off the otherwise dead axle in such a way that it
will be usable.
IF you've gotten this far, reassembly of a good yoke onto your hopefully
otherwise good axle is a bit less challenging than was the disassembly.
But note that it probably is easier to locate and use a good, complete,
used axle assembly from a 1973 or later Spitfire than to go to all the
trouble outlined above.
--Andy
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