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Old 03-04-2016
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Thanks Naushad ,I need a few bits but I'll have to wait for a couple of things to sell on another forum before i can pay for any more bits .
What I need most are rear trailing arms ,front steering hubs and all transmition parts, i'm quite happy to fabricate the gearbox , its a nice challenge and have an idea for how to ge the gearing made with modern gears .
The gearing will need 3 x 46t spur gears ,a 22t pinion and a 20t pinion, the 22t pinion needes to be screwed to one of the 46t spur gears to make the reduction gear and one of the 46t spurs will need to be converted to a ball diff gear ,then the rest of a modern ball diff parts can be grafted on .
The only really hard bit will be aligning the bearing holes in the gearbox case halves so the gears mesh well ,my mill is not CNC its a plain by eye and by hand mill but I think if I start with one solid plastic (acetal) block and drill pilot holes all the way through for the bearing holes and the screw holes to bolt the halves together ,I can then cut the block in half and mill out the void space for the gears in both halves and it should then all align perfectly .
It's probably a couple of days work but I enjoy doing it ,there is also the virtue of having modern cheaply scorced gears in the gearbox and a caseing thats not 30 year old plastic, I want to be able to drive this car without worrie of breaking expensive parts so I'll probably mill out copies of all the breakable components and keep the original bits for sunday best.

Last edited by Dadio; 03-04-2016 at 08:35 AM.
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