ratman Posted January 30, 2007 Report Posted January 30, 2007 probably a dumb question but these escort english 2 piece quaife half shafts how do they bolt to the axel casing the pictures in the catalogs shows the half shaft and the separate flange and bearing dose the 4 offset holed mounting plate from your original half shaft go on between the flange and the bearing as original and what holds it on a press fitted ring as the original one has
johnny_h Posted January 31, 2007 Report Posted January 31, 2007 I have no idea what you just said but that pic looks nice.
ratman Posted January 31, 2007 Author Report Posted January 31, 2007 Any one got any pictures of them compleate with mounting plate
Wessie Posted January 31, 2007 Report Posted January 31, 2007 pm rich sav, i think he was goin to use those
andypipe Posted January 31, 2007 Report Posted January 31, 2007 probably a dumb question but these escort english 2 piece quaife half shafts how do they bolt to the axel casing the pictures in the catalogs shows the half shaft and the separate flange and bearing dose the 4 offset holed mounting plate from your original half shaft go on between the flange and the bearing as original and what holds it on a press fitted ring as the original one has The bearing goes on from the disc end and buts up against the wedge. You then place your existing retaining plate over to hold the bearing on and the shaft to the axle. I "USED" to run these, and encountered 4 problems. 1. On the ofside the nut keeps coming undone, due to the way the wheel turns. Keep cecking. If comes loose replace Nyloc 2. Due to the flange and shaft not being a taper bearing, after a while the flange rocks on the shaft and is therefore fooked as you cannot retighten them to take they play out. 3. The splines between the flange and shaft went awol. Shaft fooked 4. Shaft snapped in diff. Shaft fooked. I have now gone back to standard shafts. These are my own personal problems with the shafts, but due to legal reasons, i cannot advise for or againt Hope this helps
V8ian Posted January 31, 2007 Report Posted January 31, 2007 I allways thought the 2 piece shafts were a compromise, It allways seemed to be a way around having expensive forgings made with the wheel flange attached, I have seen a few of the shafts break, The bolt on flanges are meant to be sacrifical [made of soft stuff] so rather than the shafts break, the spline on the flange will shear, dosent appear to happen, I also beleive the other "advantage" is supposed to be for competition, if you clip a rock or kerb, the flange will bend rather than the shaft so ot is easier and cheaper to change the flange rather than the whole shaft.and you dont fill the axle up with bits of swarf IF the flange shears. Personally I dont like them, they seem a little under/or over engineered for me, depends on the way you look at them, I know Andy Robinson keeps Strange shafts in stock for the Atlas, and may keep them in for the English, And so does Geoff Hauser with Moser atlas shafts for that matter, and I have Moser shafts in my toyota axle, which are standing the test of time very well. Ian
Rich Sav Posted January 31, 2007 Report Posted January 31, 2007 i havnt got any picks wih the flange on but it all goes 2 geter as the orignal shaft by the way ive noticed it sets the wheel out bout 10mm because of the thickness of the hub so if ur wheels are close 2 the arch any way
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