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Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2004 11:09
PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Ed's nightmare
Greetings,
I had a pretty productive
day at the Rev-3 work session. The main thing remaining is the
spinner cutouts, which will be a new experience for me, since I've somehow
managed to always have spinners that were pre-cut. Man that's one
serious looking prop :-)
Ed, I either lost a few
hours to you, or gained a few days (or more). My plan was to
replace only the drive, and not remove the plate or anything else.
Unfortunately, my new input shaft wouldn't fit in the old
dampener splines. It was just too tight to try to make
it go. Sure enough, the old input shaft was a fairly loose fit in
the new dampener plate, so there is a difference. I ended up
having to drain the cooling system, remove the rads, remove the
plate, and replace the dampener plate. This was only a couple hour delay
for me, but if your new input shaft doesn't fit your old dampener plate,
you're screwed, since you don't have a new dampener plate.
I called Tracy, and
he said Ford wasn't all that precise over the years, and
that it sounded like my old plate was on the tight side, and the new
plate was more normal. He chose to make the C drive input
shafts a snug fit, so it just won't work with my old dampener
plate. I hope you have better luck. He said it
was possible to lap the splines to fit, but wouldn't be worth
the trouble for me, since I already had a new one to install. The
old one, being tight, is a better fit for my old B drive anyway, so they
might as well stay together. The B drive is going to be for sale,
BTW.
Cheers,
Rusty (should be running,
if not flying by Monday)