J6's Spare T44 Rebuilt by Lee Holman
- Thread starter MK -IV J6
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Good to Go. Not for Sale.
I think they had a problem with improperely hardened shafts but once in the MKII's. Once they fixed that none that I know of.
By the time they were used in the MK-IV's they were fine. MK-IV's won every race they entered.
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Too bad Jim, I was prepared to go all the way to $500.00, but it's your loss!
My impression was that initially there were two seals on the input shaft of early versions, this 'created' a dry area which did not get cooled by the oil and overheated the shaft, resulting in failure at that point. Remember reading it in a tech article many moon's ago, but as someone mentioned on another thread ,you cannot believe everything you read---even on this Forum.
My impression was that initially there were two seals on the input shaft of early versions, this 'created' a dry area which did not get cooled by the oil and overheated the shaft, resulting in failure at that point. Remember reading it in a tech article many moon's ago, but as someone mentioned on another thread ,you cannot believe everything you read---even on this Forum.
Mine's traveled 30K miles without incident.
I would have to assume that yours being fitted to the MKIV is one of the later versions. I was not suggesting that yours or any other could be short lived, in fact quite the opposite, knowing what/where the majority of the components are sourced from the T44 makes the rest look like contenders for Mr Puniverse.
Jack Houpe
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Could you tell us what the ring and pinion ratio is?
You can change the ratio with drop gears. At Le Mans I think they used 2.99 to one on the street I use a lower ratio.
