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Right We seem to be about to have a meet up, down your end, so if we can finalise something
I should be able to pick it up from you.
and then:Brian King wrote:What I posted was as a result of a telephone conversation with an engineer in Cheshire who has experience of preparing Citroen 2CV 4WD competition cars. You have made me doubt what I wrote about cost. I have today sent a message to the engineers to give me an estimate of what the cost would be for the job for one car ie with one male and one female spline.
Kaapelimies wrote:The job is quite complicated because you have to fill the old splines with medal (welding or some other mean), then machine the threads, and then give an appropriate heat-threathing to maintain the stregth and sturdiness required for the power and torsion available from the angine, as 100% of the power goes through the splines.
Someone else remembered you were working on this, Phil:Philhod wrote: my suggestion was to use the existing splines, but with the 2 parts set into a purpose made machining jig and cut in 3 keyways. Make 3 keys to fit from moly van, weld them in with TIG. This would anneal the hard mat'l and not need re heat treating and then clean back the surface to original dia as there is a brg in the transfer box goes right over that spot.
I already made the jig and set the parts in their respective positions. The machining need not be perfect on 120 degrees (as it will always fit in one position.) I supplied the mat'l for the keys and to make 3 would only take about 1/2 an hour as they need to be a transition fit in their keyways.
Those were the options as I arranged with Rakeway, I am not aware of anything other than that.
As a result Brian has acknowledged your input and posted your solution plus an alternative (but no confirmed costs yet) :Jaba wrote:Someone posted here a few years back that a simple (relatively ) solution was available by simply machining slots to allow the insertion of dogs or keys leaving the unmachined splines remaining for location and some extra grip.
Brian King wrote:This is the solution recommended by Philhod who has gone so far as to make a working jig with the offending shafts in it. We are waiting for a quote for the cutting and welding, as well as one for the alternative solution, which is to make brand new splined ends. Basically we need quotes for each solution, but they're slow coming. We will post them as soon as they are received.
And another one in LithuaniaPhilhod wrote:As far as I know there is one guy in Poland waiting to hear something and another in the Czech Republic. [..]