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Old 25th February 2013, 13:05
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Originally Posted by MartinClan View Post
Could you not just lower the engine/gearbox at the back? Comparing the chassis to the Sportster I can see you have a crossmember towards the rear of the box which I guess is the main problem? As I remember (haha - few years since I crawled underneath) the Sportster is a peripheral chassis with little in the way of crossmembers allowing the back of the box to be quite low and supported by the transmission tunnel on a bracket.

Cheers, Robin
Hi Robin,
yes, I could drop the back end of the gearbox down a bit but can't go too far or the propsahft will foul on the crossmember. But i'll end up with an extreme angle difference between the gearbox output flange and the diff input flange. All I've read on propsahft theory is the difference should be less than .5 degree and I'm already at 1 degree.
To compensate I would have to rotate the diff casing so it's pointing up at the front, not impossible, but quite difficult to do.

You'll have to come down and take a look...
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