Hi,
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 an uneducated guess.
Mark Watson
1956 Daimler Regency Mk II '104' - undergoing a slow resto
1965 Ford Falcon daily driver
plus others
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Nogueira" <nogera@worldnet.att.net>
To: "shop-talk" <shop-talk@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 11:01 PM
Subject: Engineering Question Regarding Splined Shafts
>
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> Okay your thinking what is he talking about . Well on my Morgan (Plus 4 )
> the transmission is located about thirty inches behind the flywheel, An
> intermediate shaft is used between the clutch and the transmission input
> shaft with a muff coupler joining the transmission input shaft and the
> intermediate shaft. The clutch end of the intermediate shaft acts just as
a
> transmission input shaft on a normal setup. The clutch end has the same
> splines as you would find on a transmission input shaft., ten. But the
> transmission end of the intermediate shaft ( the muff coupler and the
> transmission input shaft) have 15 splines . It seems to me that they
would
> have saved time and trouble ( as well as not have to use a 'special'
> transmission input shaft ) by simply using the same splines on each end.
>
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>
> Bob Nogueira
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