help on gearbox removal

[wedgenut]

This may or may not help ears ago in a previous life Ford escorts & Cortinas used pressed in and staked yokes and people were faced with buying neew shafts. Renault di the same with the transaxle shafts on rea engine jobs like the R8 and R10. The needle cups wer those shitty tin things like Torrington bearings and it wouldn't surprise me if Torrington made them originally.

Where i worked we used to dimantle them, machine out the yokes by line boring ona jig we made,(only needed a few thou) to allow using a standard greasable universal joint. On the same jig we passed a fly cutter in the hole and cut circlip grooves to sit and fanny was your auntie, It used to take about 1 hour per joint pair (two yokes) and the UJ was a standard one avialable from Repco in those days for about $15.00.

Everything goes up in price of course but at the time it was about $250 for a shaft so the ratio will have remained the same no doubt. N welding needed and no balance issues to worry about afterwards.

A couple of cowboys up the road from us used to do it as well but they didn't bother with circlips, they just welded washers in the yokes to keep the cups in and they usually shit themselves pretty quickly. I don't think they understood about not welding adjacent to a bearing and the damage it can cause.

I mine flog out I will be fixing it this way even if it takes me a week to make the tooling up.

Ther must be some smart cookie over there doing this still!