Setting pinion angle.
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Setting pinion angle. Alright, so I'm about to fab up my transmission crossmember, but i'm concerned with pinon angle. not sure on where the motor/trans needs be set at(angle). Will I need the drive shaft in in order to figure this out?
You guys get what I'm saying?
Anyway the help is much appreicated.
You guys get what I'm saying?
Anyway the help is much appreicated.
Driveshaft not required. You want complimentary angles. For example, if your tailshaft is 3° down, you want the pinion 3° up. That's ASSuming the pinion won't rotate on acceleration or deceleration.
Russ
Russ
i made a couple of laser pointers like in the link below. Mount them to each shaft. I then held a piece of lined notebook paper up to the trans laser pointer and marked how far apart the two dots are both up and down and left and right. I then held the paper in front of the laser pointer at the diff and did the same. Then it was just a matter of adjusting the diff and/or trans until the distances were the same front and back.
http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=109413
i always set mine up with the pinion -2 so i measure at the face of the crank pulley/ dampener and the face of the pinion gear and set it so the pinion gear is 2 degrees less.
engine l \ rear or engine / l rear hope this helps.
engine l \ rear or engine / l rear hope this helps.
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