Re: [DML] Angle Drive

[mike clemens <rmclemns@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bill,
 
Don't forget the MG's, one on the tranmission and one up by the speedo, but only on certain models.  I tried to convert one of these to the Deloean, but the gears and threading were all wrong---English vice metric.
 
Mike   TPS   1630
 


--- On Sun, 3/15/09, content22207 <brobertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: content22207 <brobertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [DML] Angle Drive
To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sunday, March 15, 2009, 6:23 PM






Near as I can tell we are among the only users of Smiths Industries angle drives on the axle stub (Martin Gutkowski claims that Citroen did it on one of their models). Jaguar E type apparently had two of them -- one on the transmission and one attached to the speedometer itself. This is what a Smiths Industries drive looks like on a Porsche: http://www.914world .com/specs/ enginedrop/ ed28.jpg
Lotus mounts their angle drive to the transmission as well, but in a vertical orientation.

Many Triumph owners have replaced their angle drives with direct cables, so I'm assuming their gear ratio is 1:1. This fellow replaced his two Jaguar angle drives with a direct cable, so they seem to be 1:1 as well: http://bernardembde n.com/xjs/ speedca/0rightan glegears. jpg. Perhaps our 1.125:1 gear ratio has something to do with our high failure rate.

Bill Robertson
#5939

>--- In dmcnews@yahoogroups .com, "Nick Kemp" <nkemp@...> wrote:
>
> I have a faint recollection that this angle drive is similar to a part used in Jaguars.

















      

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