Just a minor upgrade

[Alex Blair (RIP)]

Originally Posted by colin jones

I finished my tailshaft last night and put it in position. It is an old ford truck tailshaft. I machined an adapter plate with a centre hole to take the female spline and welded it in. (transmission end). I also machined a big plate with a 6mm recess so the original 8 bolt plate sits in (for centralization). That plate is welded to the other end of the tailshaft. Also the engine is in as well.
Colin.

Col..being a mechanic/welder/electrician/gas fitter/and general wrench,I know good work when I see it..The only improvement I could comment on would to be offsetting your motormounts to reduce the drive angle on your drive shaft..
At 200MPH that old drive shaft will be under quite an axis load..
Reminds me of my youth,trying to come up with a transmission that would stand up to my 361 CI 1959 Edsel V-8..normal Ford transmissions would clean the cluster gears off like butter..Finally mated it up with a '54 Mercury truck transmission..four speed..
Taking off in second gear or even third gear in a cloud of smoke was normal...Had the .'54 yoke on one end of the driveshaft and a '59 Ford rear end matching yoke on the other end....so anything is possible..
Keep at 'er..I'm following your thread with great interest..