Goggles, why would I be sure of anything? I just cut and pasted Jack's words from the interview. I'll be talking to Waters soon. Perhaps he has some insight. Kisses. Wayno
It was reading that interview years ago that I had my Akerue! moment.It was the perfect solution to our requirements for a shortened gearbox, it's just that I read the article two years after I worked it out myself, actually I wasn't
quite myself when I worked it out.
I'd had a few beers, at the time I was single and so I tended to spend a bit of time in the kitchen where the library of car books and the computer was. I'd already had the recommended daily dose and was experimenting with a radical homeopathic method based on the premise that if some is good lots is better. I was looking at an exploded view of the three speed Muncie as we had a few lying around and figured it would do just fine for us, but it was too long. I went to the fridge to retrieve my repeat prescription .....while I was away the page of the manual flipped over to the next page which had an exploded view of the 4 speed. When I got back I sat down and looked back at the exploded view....."hmmm that's weird?....what's that stuff in the extension housing.....what's that spline?" after a few more seconds I realised what had happened and quickly realised the 3 speed was no use to us, or at least the mainshaft in it. Fortunately when I woke up the next morning I remembered having some sort of revelation, and having not cleaned up it didn't take me long when I went back to the kitchen to work out what had transpired.I put the question to Colonel Grumm...." why can't we just chop off the shaft at that second spline and collapse the extension housing?"...he gave me the standard face shrug which means "dude, go for it". I lopped off the front flange of the extension housing , and then the oil seal housing from the rear,I had to get the 20mm Al plate water cut to fit around the bolt holes in the flange and to get the hole in the middle. Then we took it to an old fella who had a "pie-warmer" Tig and he welded it up and then machined it true (he had his own homebuilt electric car which he'd been driving for over 25 years, played drums and piano and also had his own views on hi-comp lpg conversions having a 13.5:1 327 with 300,000miles on it).Jeez I thought I was clever. A month or so later one of the club members came over....."Where'd you get that speedway box?"...."Speedway box?" ....." yeah, that shortened Muncie, that's what they use in Speedway cars"........ I casually replied that "I put it together" leaving out the bit where I came up with the whole brilliant idea in the first place
Yesterday at work we were guffawing at someone's suggestion that "we get some young people in with some fresh ideas"......I said , "yeah lets get some people in who aren't old enough to remember why their ideas didn't work last time they were tried".....
Perhaps the plate had provisions for the bushing and oil seal for the driveshaft slip joint?
precisely.
Kisses. Wayno
it's only lunch time here Wayno,
