guess what i done i made my first de dion and i used the only tube that i could find in the factor. and mt drive shafts wont fit the flange bit is 108mm and the tube inner dia is 106 so ive gotta make a new one
adam

Are you on about the hub flanges? if so there's enough meat on them to lose a bit in the lathe.
Apologies if thats not what you mean.

Al.

the tube where the shaft gos through into the hub
adam

Split the tube and drive in a wedge, plate the gap. You know you want to bodge it !

if you look at where the tube is welded to you cant make the bit bigger by the bracket so iam feked
it would take me ages to grind it apart and it tuk me ages to get it perfect lol so i think ill have to make a new one
adam



[Edited on 14/5/07 by oadamo]

[Edited on 14/5/07 by oadamo]

Second time round will be quicker and probably better anyway from my experiences

Which driveshafts are you using? IIRC the joints on mine are only 100mm diameter.
Al.

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Originally posted by Wadders
Which driveshafts are you using? IIRC the joints on mine are only 100mm diameter.
Al.

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Ok, fine, i give in, only trying to help.

Al.




Originally posted by oadamo

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Originally posted by Wadders
Which driveshafts are you using? IIRC the joints on mine are only 100mm diameter.
Al.

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lol

you are using bolt on sierra shafts arent you? What alan is saying is there is enough spare material on the outside of the flange to take some off and make it fit.

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Originally posted by JoelP
lol

you are using bolt on sierra shafts arent you? What alan is saying is there is enough spare material on the outside of the flange to take some off and make it fit.

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Tripod outer joints are smaller and the likes of the mk de-dion will only take tripod (push-in) shafts. Although their diameter escapes me at the mo.

You could mix and match a tripod outer joint with a lobro inner like the set up on billys if a tripod will go through ok.

haaa i get ya ill have to go to the scrapy and get some more shafts and have a fiddle to see what i can do. it would be easyer then making another one.
adam

Downside will be you'll be missing caliper brackets as they are cast into the outer lobro hub assembly so you would need to buy some caliper brackets from the likes of gts/mnr(?)

This brings up another problem of what orientation you have weled up the end plates (bolt pattern is rectangular) as the mnr brackets billy bought won't allow a caliper to be bolted up due to it sitting in the wrong place

It never rains it pours!

If a tripod slips through you can mix and match the inner end with a lobro though



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or you could get some ford 25 spline shafts from a std lobro jointed sierra rear end, and cut and shut these with your 28 spline shafts, so keeping 108mm joints at the inner end and 100 mm ones at the outer end

i made the caliper brackets then i seen that mine had them on the hubs. so ive got some already

Just realised by ns-dev's post and re-reading yours that your dealing with cossie gear so the mix and match I was refering to was for 25 spline shafts.

looky

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No idea what spline count my push in shafts were, but I manged to change the inner joints to cv joints no problem.
Just removed the tripode unit and the cv's slipped on
Saved changing my rear uprights etc to disks when using a LSD.

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Originally posted by Mr G
Downside will be you'll be missing caliper brackets as they are cast into the outer lobro hub assembly so you would need to buy some caliper brackets from the likes of gts/mnr(?)

This brings up another problem of what orientation you have weled up the end plates (bolt pattern is rectangular) as the mnr brackets billy bought won't allow a caliper to be bolted up due to it sitting in the wrong place

It never rains it pours!

If a tripod slips through you can mix and match the inner end with a lobro though



[Edited on 14/5/07 by Mr G]

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