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drag co-efficient question | 23 comments (23 topical)

Re: drag co-efficient question (3.00 / 0) (#7)
by xymox on Tue Sep 06, 2005 at 08:18:53 AM MST

Hmmm, That is interesting. So I should definately incorporate a spindle in my design?
I was thinking of boring out that internally splined hole in the middle and welding a piece of 1 inch round steel through it so that I can secure the stator to it.
(avoiding the need for a large perimeter bracket around the outside. Surely there must be a way to keep that bearing where it belongs?
Any ideas?

Beat the system, do as much as you can do.
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Re: drag co-efficient question (3.00 / 0) (#11)
by kitno455 on Tue Sep 06, 2005 at 02:02:12 PM MST

perhaps we miscommunicate. i said nothing about needing the spindle. i said you need the end of the CV that goes in the splined hole, and has a BIG washer and nut and castle lock AND a cotter pin on the outside. (all that attaching hardware is your first clue that something important is going on, GM would happily leave that stuff off if they could...)

the hub (the part with the splined hole and the 5 wheel studs) is only pressed into the outer bearing, and the spindle mounting flange (three bolt circle) is dropped over that, and then the inner bearing is pressed onto the hub from the inside. you need something serious in tension, with big flanges inside that splined hole, to keep the bearings from sliding off the hub.

allan

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Re: drag co-efficient question (3.00 / 0) (#14)
by xymox on Tue Sep 06, 2005 at 03:27:25 PM MST

I thought those bearings were pressed on by machined with like 200000 pounds per square inch of pressure.
Beat the system, do as much as you can do.
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