From: m35products (m35prod@optonline.net)
Date: Sun Jun 06 2004 - 08:05:12 PDT
Here are a few rhetorical questions:
If you take off the drive flanges, and drive around without them, does
anything need to support the spline? No.
Does anything come flying off the truck? No.
Is any damage done to any component? No.
The drive flanges are just that: drive & flanges. They do nothing more than
transfer rotary motion from a totally-supported and lubricated axle to the
wheel. (and keep out the mud) I cannot understand this obsession with
support, bushings, bearings, lubrication, etc etc etc.
Yes, running around with no flange looks like hell, and dirt can get on the
splines and in the works, but a coffee can would be just as good a cover.
Thank you for amplifying what I have been saying all along: I saw a
personal need for these hubs, took the time and expense to develop them
($5000 up-front costs) and have shared the product with those who want to
lock out and lock in easily. There are clever people, and I salute their
Yankee ingenuity, who can "sort of" duplicate the lockout hubs that are
commercially available. But it costs money to do it wrong, and it costs
money to do it right. Personally, I prefer to turn a handle than to sit in
the mud with the alligators, turning a wrench. but that's just me, I
suppose.
apb
Inter Agency Motor Pool
"For Combat, Work or Play" sm
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc Strangfeld" <curlyjoe98@yahoo.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 1:12 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] How to make your own lockouts for the M35 Rockwell 240
axle
> Dave,
>
> I think Tom does it to get a kick out of our
> reactions. But then again who care's about Tom. What
> kind of lunatic would spend as many dollars and
> resources on a M35 as he did just to make it go 70+
> mph, have air conditioning, a redundant brake system,
> way too many gages, lights, knobs, and switches, not
> to mention a cheap throw away 3208 Cat engine.
>
> With that said, I should relay my quest for free wheel
> hubs. Last year I started calling around for a spare
> set of hubs that I could machine the splines out of.
> The cheapest I could find was $35 a piece. So I
> decided to machine my own out of raw stock. I didn't
> want to wear out my welcome by overusing the 15"
> Colchester at work so I bought my own 16" Southbend
> lathe (it's even Navy surplus). One year later the
> lathe is under power, cleaned up, and operating as it
> should. I now have two hubs ready to bore out the
> holes in and press in the oil impregnated bushings.
> But, before I do that I need to find a decent boring
> bar setup on Ebay as the lathe came with zero tooling.
> If you add the cost of the lathe, stock for hubs,
> tooling, and electrical hookup I could have bought
> many sets of real hubs from Art. But, I did get to
> use the M35 to haul home the lathe.
>
> Marc
>
>
>
>
> --- David Cole <DavidCole@tk7.net> wrote:
> >
> > Tom,
> >
> > Not everyone has a 16" turret lathe in their garage
> > that they can use to
> > chuck up their spare set of drive flanges (everyone
> > has a set of those
> > sitting around also??) just to machine out the
> > splines.
> >
> > I though the design and approach is solid and
> > requires few tools, or at
> > least not a mill or a lathe.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 13:29:24 -0400, milveh
> > <milveh@carr.org> wrote:
> >
> > > what a waste of time!! just machine the splines
> > out of a spare set of
> > > front drive plates. or ask kenny...............
> > > tom
> > >
> > >
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