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Re: [Spits] Rear Outer dive shafts ( half shafts in UK speak)

To: sagreenwood@earthlink.net, Spitfire list <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Spits] Rear Outer dive shafts ( half shafts in UK speak)
From: Doug Braun <doug@dougbraun.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:40:22 -0700 (PDT)
Ted Schumacher once told me that the pin can be
removed and the yoke can be pressed off and a new one
pressed on.  But I have never heard of the yokes being
sleeved or otherwise repaired.  I think there are
enough used ones out there to make it uneconomical.

Doug Braun
'72 Spit

--- Stuart Greenwood <sagreenwood@earthlink.net>
wrote:

> When I completely restored all the mechanical stuff
> on my 1971 Mk IV Spitfire I noticed that the holes
> in the yokes attached to the drive shafts inner ends
>  ( where the Universal Joint Needle bearing cups
> press in) had at  some time in the past been badly
> mauled. 
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