rocket
Well Oiled
With the shaft nice and cool today, I chucked it up in the lathe and turned it down to a press fit into the new yoke. It turned nicely with a carbide bit.
The new yoke has a 3/8" keyway also.
So into the milling machine it went. clamped into a V block, the keyway cut went fairly quick.
The fit turned out to be pretty tight. No way they would just slide together.
Trying to figure out how to hold the yoke in the hydraulic press took a little time. The u-joint bores are 1.063 and I found a piece of 1" steel stock that worked fine to hold the yoke on the press frame and pressed the two parts together.
Before welding I think it would have held anything the 302 Ford can throw at it. With the 3'8 key and a 3/8 set screw set into a drilled hole in the shaft, I don't see how it could move. Thay look like they belong together.
Back in the lathe with a dial indicator the runout was around .003"
Final assembly ready to pull the Transfer Case and install the new coupler.
The new yoke has a 3/8" keyway also.
So into the milling machine it went. clamped into a V block, the keyway cut went fairly quick.
The fit turned out to be pretty tight. No way they would just slide together.
Trying to figure out how to hold the yoke in the hydraulic press took a little time. The u-joint bores are 1.063 and I found a piece of 1" steel stock that worked fine to hold the yoke on the press frame and pressed the two parts together.
Before welding I think it would have held anything the 302 Ford can throw at it. With the 3'8 key and a 3/8 set screw set into a drilled hole in the shaft, I don't see how it could move. Thay look like they belong together.
Back in the lathe with a dial indicator the runout was around .003"
Final assembly ready to pull the Transfer Case and install the new coupler.
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