Hi All,
I'm in an unfortunate situation with the firm who made me some custom axles. I am using Porsche 930 box with 930 CVs on both the inner and outer ends, so nothing unusual.
I have some porsche race car axles of a different length, and the CV inner section is a nice engineering fit on the splines of these original axles, and will slide smoothly on the splined section at just a light hand touch. I supplied both as a sample.
The new axles arrived and the CV inner is a light to medium interference fit on the spline - i.e. needs to be hammered on.
I want the CVs to be centred and happy through the travel of the suspension, and have always assumed that the axles float axially to allow this to occur (hence the circlips on each end). I have consulted a business that race prepares and manages a variety of competition porsches - he always uses floating axles on purpose built track cars.
The owner at the firm says he always does axles for CV cars non-floating (i.e. interference fit). At this stage I'm wanting him to remedy the situation and do them again in floating. He seems a reasonable guy and is prepared to entertain that.
Am I on the right track?
Cheers, Andrew Robertson, New Zealand
I'm in an unfortunate situation with the firm who made me some custom axles. I am using Porsche 930 box with 930 CVs on both the inner and outer ends, so nothing unusual.
I have some porsche race car axles of a different length, and the CV inner section is a nice engineering fit on the splines of these original axles, and will slide smoothly on the splined section at just a light hand touch. I supplied both as a sample.
The new axles arrived and the CV inner is a light to medium interference fit on the spline - i.e. needs to be hammered on.
I want the CVs to be centred and happy through the travel of the suspension, and have always assumed that the axles float axially to allow this to occur (hence the circlips on each end). I have consulted a business that race prepares and manages a variety of competition porsches - he always uses floating axles on purpose built track cars.
The owner at the firm says he always does axles for CV cars non-floating (i.e. interference fit). At this stage I'm wanting him to remedy the situation and do them again in floating. He seems a reasonable guy and is prepared to entertain that.
Am I on the right track?
Cheers, Andrew Robertson, New Zealand