Re: [Spit] Rolling an empty Spit chassis around

2007-06-11 Thread Mark J. Bradakis
If you sell the axles, where will the wheels attach? Or do you mean the inner axles in the diff? mjb. Your messages not reaching the list? Check out http://www.team.net/posting.html === This list supported in part by The Vintage Triumph Register === http://www.vtr.org === Help keep

RE: [Spit] Rolling an empty Spit chassis around

2007-06-11 Thread Gosling, Richard
The rear wheels will fall off. The rear wheels are held rigidly to the driveshaft, and are perpendicular to it. If you remove the diff, the inner ends of the driveshafts are free to flop around wherever they want to, thus allowing the wheels to adopt serious camber, and point left/right/wherever

Re: [Spit] Rolling an empty Spit chassis around

2007-06-11 Thread fishplate
M D Nugent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Similar to a dumb question: If I sell the diff and rear axles from a spare bare chassis ('78-79), will I still be able to roll the chassis around, or will the rear wheels fall off? They'll fall off, or at least flop around a lot. This furniture

Re: [Spit] Rolling an empty Spit chassis around

2007-06-11 Thread M D Nugent
--- Mark J. Bradakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you sell the axles, where will the wheels attach? Or do you mean the inner axles in the diff? No, . . . it was a brain fart - pardon my stinky. I was thinking for some reason of an IRS rear with separate stub axles in the hubs rather than

Re: [Spit] Rolling an empty Spit chassis around

2007-06-11 Thread Doug Braun
If you remove the diff, axles, and wheels you will be able to simply lift the rear of the chassis up and put it wherever you want. Doug Braun '72 Spit --- M D Nugent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Mark J. Bradakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you sell the axles, where will the wheels attach?

Re: [Spit] Rolling an empty Spit chassis around

2007-06-11 Thread Joe Curry
AM Subject: Re: [Spit] Rolling an empty Spit chassis around --- Mark J. Bradakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you sell the axles, where will the wheels attach? Or do you mean the inner axles in the diff? No, . . . it was a brain fart - pardon my stinky. I was thinking for some reason