Splitty CVs

tdegens Wolfsburg Wizard

425 posts · joined Apr 2004 · 8 Sep 2005, 9:39 am

#405417

2L Gearbox is in the splitty which means the cvs are a little bit too long. Do I machine the splines a little bit longer or cut a bit out and reweld them. What welding rods which I should use for the CV material?
Cheers Tom

Brad Wolfsburg Elder

3,764 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 8 Sep 2005, 9:50 am

#405423

Hi,
Machine the shoulder down the spline so the CV's go on further.

How much to long are they ?

You may get away with using short side auto axles

Don't weld your axles....

Brad
Why copy when you can own an original ?
Meyers Manx Australia

tdegens Wolfsburg Wizard

425 posts · joined Apr 2004 · 8 Sep 2005, 2:37 pm

#405490

Around 15mm too long. However I will measure accurately soon.

butidontunderstand Insano Dub Head

783 posts · joined Jan 2005 · 8 Sep 2005, 8:38 pm

#405670

geez just get it finished already!!!!!! :P

electricmonk Officially Full-On Dubber

287 posts · joined Aug 2005 · 9 Sep 2005, 12:12 am

#405772

As long as your not doing anything structual welding should be ok. We used to do it all the time to rebuild splines on Magna shafts. They always tore splines off when gatting the race off the shaft AND we had the correct tools most other companies would grind three notches in the shaft which could have led to structual damage. As long as you have a steady hand and some splines lft you should be able to make your own from adding a little weld and using a SMALL cut off disk on an air die grinder. The easyest way to help things along is have a spare sacraficial race you can belt onto the shaft correcting any small mistakes and to check your going ok and dont have any "slop" Unfortunatly I now have a poor memory and can not remember what type of rod we were using. You may also want to go the easy way and give the details of what you want to a CV remanufacturer you can trust and ask them to do it. I used to love that sort of work.

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tdegens Wolfsburg Wizard

425 posts · joined Apr 2004 · 9 Sep 2005, 7:32 am

#405808

Does anybody know how much shorter the auto kombi cvs are?
tom

dangerous 23 Windows of Awesome

5,901 posts · joined Jan 2005 · 10 Sep 2005, 4:43 pm

#406264

About an inch...it is the left one.

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