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Re: Driveshaft

To: spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Driveshaft
From: nikolai jaremka <njaremka@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 06:48:08 -0400 (EDT)

i think you are a little misguided, joe.  i have the strap type
on my car and i've also had the driveshaft out more than twice
without undoing more than 8 bolts (4 at the gearbox, and 4 at
the diff).


--- Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> nikolai jaremka wrote:
> > 
> > > However, with that said, if you can find a shaft with a
> slider
> > > joint on
> > > one end, that is a much better way to go than the strap
> type.
> > >
> > 
> > why?
> 
> Because in order to take it off and put it back on again, all
> you have
> to do is remove the flange, not both the flange bolts and the
> bolts that
> hold the straps on.  As you probably already know, the strap
> type
> collapses somewhat when the straps are removed, enabling the
> flange to
> come away from its mating surface on the differential.  The
> sliding
> joint does this without having to remove anything but the
> flange bolts
> (4 rather than 8)
> 
> Regards,
> Joe
> 
> 
> -- 
> "If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort."
>  -- Dave Weinbaum in National Enquirer
> 
> 

===
nikolai jaremka
72 spitfire mkIV
east aurora, new york



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