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11-19-2018 03:40 PM |
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Originally Posted by jaynjeep
(Post 470104)
Well I re drilled the KT plate as per directions on here by others that have done this conversion... everything fits and works now!:beer2:.. Guess I have a nice 1641/1864 plate now if anyone needs it!:biggrin2:
I used 1/2 inch spacers under the engine as the 1864 does... looks like the driveshaft runs uphill toward the engine?:bigthink: Wonder if I should use it without spacers? Any suggestions?:bigthink:
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Allow me to comment on this and share some knowledge that was imparted upon me as a whippersnapper hot-rodder:
The driveshaft has to have an angle so that the needles (balls in this case) will roll and move the lubricant around. In the case of a car, the needles could fail because the stress was being put on a single one instead of sharing the load between the set.
Another way to look at it is, lets say, the contact point between the balls and the carrier is a 1mm circle, if the balls don't roll, then there's know way for the lube to get into the contact point which will accelerate wear. Now, if the balls are rolling as little as 1mm in each direction because of the angle, you've tripled the contact surface and cut the wear factor by 1/3, plus the grease is flowing. (1mm figure was arbitrary).
It always made sense to me. |
