"Roger Long" wrote in message
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Skip the drive saver. Line up your shaft carefully calculating the
overhanging weight of the shaft and using a scale to hold the end up. Make
sure the flanges are true and the pilot concentric. Then hard mount it.
The metal parts will then be more precision than a plastic disk can ever
be and will stay that way. It will run fine.

If you see my pix of the installation to come, at
http://justpickone.org/skip/gallery/...06&sta rt=297, I
believe I qualify on the pilot/hard mount bit.

However, my question has to do with weighing the shaft. Currently the
packing's out of the gland, awaiting mount/alignment before repacking, so
it's floppy on its hose, so far as it can move.

Reading Calder on the subject, I'm not clear on how I measure the weight and
position the flange for alignment with the transmission. Of course, there's
some possibility it was done properly the first time, when they changed out
the engine, rebuilt the tranny and changed to SS shaft, but given what I've
seen in our refit, and the simple fact of the current, were it bolted back
up, misalignment, I doubt it.

So, could you elaborate on that (weighing and positioning)?

Thanks.

L8R

Skip, sore from PT today, not lifting 125# batteries, but wishing it were...


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L8R

Skip

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