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Offline Freud

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Re: Marlo Treit's Liner
« Reply #270 on: April 27, 2009, 01:41:59 PM »
I will post several shots of the new front drive this afternoon.

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Re: Marlo Treit's Liner
« Reply #271 on: April 27, 2009, 11:41:28 PM »
Re: FWD Streamliner differentials


On the Treit streamliner build I have some questions to ask BEFORE I post his new front drive-steering system.

Having read thru this post, I better be prepared for I am certain that I will be quizzed.

I'll study before I take the test questions.

I only have fotos of the entire assembly in the shipping box. I do not have a breakdown or neither have I

asked any questions about the drive system. I do know that the concern that prompted this update related to

the ability to steer with a wheel speed of 6000 RPM. A lockup in the steering assembly because of the RPM

would be catastrophic.

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Re: Marlo Treit's Liner
« Reply #272 on: April 28, 2009, 12:00:23 AM »
Strike me down.....OK?

I couldn't wait. This was like Christmas in April when the box arrived.

Hold your questions. I have no answers for you but I do have these two fotos.

The splined stub shaft in the first foto points toward the engine. The change gears are at the extreme front of

the car.

The two views are just from the front and back of the assembly.

When I have more info or even fotos of the individual parts, I'll post them.

It will likely be several weeks before this assembly is taken to Hume's place and bolted into the chassis. I

know I'll be there for that.

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Re: Marlo Treit's Liner
« Reply #273 on: April 28, 2009, 12:37:06 AM »
Freud,

Looking good. Tell Marlo way to go.

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Re: Marlo Treit's Liner
« Reply #274 on: April 28, 2009, 01:04:23 AM »
D'man..we appreciate your support.

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Re: Marlo Treit's Liner
« Reply #275 on: April 28, 2009, 02:01:15 AM »
I look for your diary on a daily basis to see what has been done.  Can't wait to see and hear it run. :cheers:

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Re: Marlo Treit's Liner
« Reply #276 on: April 28, 2009, 02:27:25 AM »
THANKS, bviller.

We will be privileged to hear u run before u have a chance to hear him run.

I certainly respect your car and so do others. Your build site has an amazing number of hits.

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Re: Marlo Treit's Liner
« Reply #277 on: April 28, 2009, 02:44:01 AM »
   I don't know if you have a picture of the Mark Williams drive axles Freud, but Marlo showed me a picture of what basically is a a male-female dragster coupler with a crown shape on the male coupler so that there can be misalignment. This allows the hub to have 5  deg. of steering. I guess it has to have a small mis-alignment when it is going straight so the two parts won't gall together.The Rembrandt of land speed cars.  They should be making a docudrama about this car and Marlo's life!!!!!!!!!

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Re: Marlo Treit's Liner
« Reply #278 on: April 28, 2009, 06:28:05 AM »
Look back a few pages.

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Re: Marlo Treit's Liner
« Reply #279 on: April 28, 2009, 10:41:54 AM »
The only images that I have were posted in Reply #216.

Mark Williams sent those a while back. I may never get fotos that deep into the assembly unless

for some reason the entire drive is disassembled. I think there may be a set of drawings but I haven't seen them.

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Re: Marlo Treit's Liner
« Reply #280 on: April 28, 2009, 09:25:54 PM »
Thanks for always keeping us up to date Freud.  I like the way that car is coming out!!!    :cheers:
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Re: Marlo Treit's Liner
« Reply #281 on: April 29, 2009, 12:47:12 AM »
Ryan, I usually always get there on Wednesdays. I go to lunch in Mt Vernon, Wa and that is about 15 milss South of Humes place. Then I go

up there.

There is always progress but the part that is exciting now is the rebuild of the front steering mechanism. Marlo told me tonight that he

plans to replace the wheel studs with cap screws and so it will be a while before he takes it to Humes place. For him it's 290 miles each

way so he doesn't just shuttle back and forth too frequently. Les Davenport will be down again soon. He will fab the connection  between

the blowers and the manifolds. I think Marlo and Les will again coordinate their trips. It's one thing to discuss on the fone but something

totally better about eye to eye and right where the car is located.

This is OLD SCHOOL. My recent assignment is to produce "water transfer decals" for the project. It's a learning curve for me and I am

excited to see how many bubbles some people have under them when they make the application. 1955 revisited. That's about where I

hover in this day and age.

Fellows, THANK YOU for your interest.

FREUD




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Re: Marlo Treit's Liner
« Reply #282 on: April 29, 2009, 12:57:08 AM »
PM Don Pennington about water transfer decals... http://hotrodmotors.com/

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Re: Marlo Treit's Liner
« Reply #283 on: April 29, 2009, 01:05:40 AM »
Mike, you are clairvoyant. He's our boy.

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Re: Marlo Treit's Liner
« Reply #284 on: April 29, 2009, 12:44:08 PM »
Well for the people that are smarter than I, there's plenty of you out there, I'll post the pictures that Marlo sent me today.

I have no comments. Glean whatever you can and after I have been briefed I will add comments. Marlo put the assembly on an engine

stand and tore into it.

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