George Lendich wrote:

Ah ha! I am way ahead of you. Just replace all six  pinion shafts
with hardened and ground custom made shoulder bolts. Leave
the carrier as is. Hardened and ground spacers would
work as well. Counter bore the bulkhead so the spacer
or shoulder bolt just fits inside the counter bore to take
the sheer load. Sort of like a dowel pin.

Someone was converting the 4 pins to six pins, using aluminium for the

planetary housing - is

there any information on how this was manufactured ?

With an NC mill. Here is a pic. We don't need to do this anymore.
I think Ford read the news letter and decided to do it themselves :-)

Paul,
I came to the same conclusion when I was considering the two piece planetary
casing but yours is a better idea, after all the casing is designed for that
particular use.

However I'm not quite sure on how you see the shoulder bolt working - in
reality it's only a pin holding the planetaries in place, I was worried a
bolt might squish the casing and reduce the freeplay. Paul a small drawing
would be appreciated on how you see the bolt would be best applied.
Also how the H... does one remove those little spring pins.
George (down under)

I'll see if I can find time to do a sketch.

Try taping them and use a screw to extract them.
Some are solid and they are too small to do that.
In a case like that you might have to mill the
planet carrier to get access to the other end.

If you can get them out about an 1/8 of an inch
you might be able to tig weld something to
the end of them and then use that to pull them out.

You could also just leave them in there and drill the shaft
out for a bolt. Use a micro torch to kill the heat treat
on the pin.

Paul Lamar

BTW If those shafts are too hard to drill take the whole
works to an EDM shop and have them eat six bolt holes in the shafts.

Paul Lamar
 
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