Paul

   snips

Ken do you have a price on those Dodge gear sets now?  For your info this is
the RX4 semi automatic bell housing with the large bearing in the middle
looks like attached.   If I go with the Dodge or Allison set I will add the
front housing and bolt some type of thick machined plate to the front of it
as well to hold the bearing. I am back to electric props I guess:)

Doug Fir

I paid $150 for the Dodge gear set but the price has gone up a bit
since then, also I cannot find the clutch hubs that slide onto the
sun gear new but I do have a  source for used ones, the new ones are
in the parts books but they just don't carry them as they just don't
wear out, the cost on the new hubs are $150 if they had them which
seems a bit steep as that is what the whole gear set costs.
Wow can you cut those file sizes down a bit as that one took 25
minutes one my slow dial up connection, wish I could get high speed
but I live way out here in BFE.
Ken

Ken,

Sorry with my new camera 1 MB is the small size. I'll try to use the old
camera for these picts or figure out how to use the Japanese compression
format.   Ken could you do me a favor and tell be measurement from the
outside flange of the sun gear mount to the start of the sun gear.

Thanks


Doug

   From the end of the spline to the thrust bearing is 3 inches, I
think this is what your asking, here is a shot with the thrust plate
and bearing on the sun gear.
   I shoot my photos in high rez but when I hit the email button in
the photo program it gives me an option to down size them, I use
Mac's iPhoto but I think most programs have that option.
   Ken



Beware guys of that thrust bearings. Thrust bearings seem to be super
sensitive to RPM and the rotary on average is twice the RPM of
a Dodge. Tracy found that out the hard way.

If you measure the thrust load from the helical gear with an annular
hydraulic cylinder  you have a built in torque meter or dyno.

Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

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